Safe Trauma Recovery
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now i want to drink that coke..
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Excellent short clip on making trauma work safe. Really liked the simplicity and power of the analogies.
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Using the analogy of driving the car and opening the cola bottle is such a simplistic yet effective way to demonstrate and explain how important it is to make trauma therpay safe for both the client and the therapist.
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Babette your work is excellent; I have the two 'body remembers' books and using the 'putting on the brakes' approach, I work through my own trauma even without clear memory.
Love the way you sum up therapeutic experience w/ clear principles, respecting patient individuality.
One question: where can I get the updated science and physiology on trauma? I know much has been done since 'body remembers'; has it been collected anywhere? Do you revise your theories continuously based on new science?
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Babette brings together a unique blend of cutting edge theory and practice which is grounded in a wealth of experience and common sense. I love her approach to dealing with trauma as it not only offers clients safe and effective options when dealing with their experience of trauma but also empowers them to find and trust what works best for them. It's therapy as it should be!!
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This is the most reassuring information I have ever seen or read for helping PTSD. I am going to ask my therapist to see this and to read Babette's books with me.
These concepts originated with me--that's why I chose this clip. "Brakes" developed in reaction to anxious times of watching myself and others slide downhill with no way to stop. The Cola demo evolved as a sidenote to that when a traInee ran to a class with a soda in her backpack. As I jokingly guided her in opening it without overflow the analogy was born.
babette100 2 years ago
Nice work, Babette. The simple metaphors are powerful. But I would love to see Dr. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing approach credited as I understand it has informed a lot of your work - particularly in the areas of "freeze" and "titration", i.e. a little bit at a time.
kanganic 2 years ago
Peter Levine (among others) has inspired several aspects of my thinking and my work. I credit him liberally in all of my books and trainings--also during this 2-day program, though not within this 8 minute excerpted clip.
babette100 2 years ago