by Steve Haines | Nov 18, 2020 | Anxiety
Understanding how anxiety is created by our nervous system trying to protect us, and how our fight-or-flight mechanisms can get stuck, can significantly lessen the fear experienced during anxiety attacks. I’m deeply curious about how minds and bodies interact. I am...
by Steve Haines | May 11, 2020 | Anxiety, Safety
The amount you’re affected by an unprecedented event like this current pandemic depends on your resources and your relationship to health. We all do the best we can, given our history and current circumstances. Many of our responses are rooted in primitive reflexes...
by Steve Haines | May 6, 2020 | Anxiety, Embodiment, Pain, Safety, TRE, Webinar Recording
Finding Safety: Trauma and the Body What is trauma? When your physiology is stuck, you are stuck. Trauma can be defined as being stuck in protective reflexes. Dissociation is a protective reflex most people are unaware of. In my experience, most people dissociate most...
by Steve Haines | Apr 14, 2020 | Anxiety
Many people are experiencing more anxiety than usual in the face of the global pandemic. Whether you’d like some guidance for your own anxiety, or you’re working with people who need extra support, I hope these ten approaches help you to feel more freedom and ease....
by Steve Haines | Jan 21, 2020 | Anxiety
Helping people with anxiety has traditionally been seen as the territory of mental health professionals. Anxiety is most commonly framed as a psychological problem. My clinical experience for over 20 years has been that by safely connecting to the body, people become...
by Steve Haines | May 25, 2019 | Anxiety, Embodiment, Feeling
This is a short video on how emotions emerge from the body and how we can learn to negotiate with raw feeling states. Enjoy! Affect is the first experience of the physiological state of the body. Emotions, thoughts and memories co-emerge as complex responses to...
