How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing

How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing

The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming – it’s more than our organisms can cope with. Trauma often shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply, which can lead to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of...
How to Create Safety in Trauma Healing

How can TRE® help manage auto-immune conditions?

This article was written by Sylvia Benoist. (Note from Steve: Sylvia recently completed her training as a TRE – Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises – supervisor (mentor with me), and I asked her to share her journey with TRE and Ankylosing Spondylitis,...
How the practice of shaking can resource us in difficult times

3 Ways to Engage Your Body to Transcend Trauma

I think it’s very useful to define trauma as “anything that overwhelms our ability to cope”, as well as to view trauma as a continuum.  The overwhelm that leads to trauma patterns in the body may be from a specific experience such as a car accident, sexual abuse,...
How to Make Your Brain Feel Safer?

How to Make Your Brain Feel Safer?

There is a lot of pain around: In a huge study (Breivik et al 2006) across 15 European countries, 19% of people reported living with moderate to severe pain for more than 6 months. That’s 1 in 5 people in persistent pain states, the majority for many years. Holy moly....