by Steve Haines | Mar 2, 2023 | Trauma
It’s now well understood that going slow is actually the quickest way to heal trauma. That’s why all modern trauma healing focuses on teaching how to regulate intense feelings. The truth is that feeling is a difficult business, and if it is hard to feel, it is hard... 
by Steve Haines | Aug 29, 2022 | Trauma
The body is central to understanding what trauma is and how we should deal with it. In this blog I discuss how to work with the body to help to resolve the effects of early, childhood trauma. This is taken from a recent podcast interview I did called Living With... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 18, 2022 | Feeling, Therapy, Touch, Trauma, TRE
There is a moment in The Work at about 20 minutes. Two men are standing eye ball to eye ball. They are in a group of other men standing in a circle around them. You are aware of the noise of other circles of other men. The stillness and the intensity between the two... 
by Steve Haines | May 12, 2022 | Trauma
When trying to recover from overwhelming experiences it can be helpful to understand how memory works, particularly how memories are related to feelings in the body. Memory is a complex perception. In this blog I’ll explore how memory works and why it can get confused... 
by Steve Haines | Nov 12, 2021 | Trauma
When I started to learn about trauma and I realised that the most important decision a human being is making is “am I safe?”, it became a key focus of my work. Especially when I discovered that all pain, anxiety and depression is rooted in feelings of not being safe.... 
by Steve Haines | May 27, 2021 | Safety, Touch, Trauma
When people think of trauma, they often think of psychological problems. The radical shift we’ve made through studying trauma is understanding that trauma is primarily about physiology. When we experience trauma, we get stuck in protective reflexes – gestures of...
