by Steve Haines | Aug 12, 2020 | Embodiment, Pain
From my mid-20s onwards, the question ‘how do we feel?’ has been a fascination for me. How do we construct our experience? What are our beliefs and how does that affect our experience of our bodies? Volunteering with people with learning difficulties and then working...
by Steve Haines | Jun 18, 2020 | As Featured in, Pain, Trauma
Why is it that two people can experience the same stressful event, but have very different outcomes? I recently joined Avni Trivedi on the Speak From the Body podcast to talk about deepening feeling, changing the narrative and addressing stress, pain and trauma. We...
by Steve Haines | Jun 13, 2020 | Embodiment, Exercise, Feeling, Pain
Slides from Steve Haines talk on pain at ‘Embodiment and Pain Day’ 13 Jun 2020, hosted by The Embodiment Conference. https://embodiedfacilitator.com/pain-day/ Parts 1 and 2 of slide show View Fullscreen Parts 3 and 4 of slide show View...
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 | Aug 2, 2019 | Pain, Safety, Trauma, TRE
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming – it’s more than the organism can cope with. Trauma shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply. Trauma often leads to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of...
by Steve Haines | Jun 18, 2019 | Feeling, Pain, Safety
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependant on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,...
