Touching Trauma: Why Touch is used in Psychotherapy and what it looks like – The body instinctively defends against threat and fear of threat. It can perceive danger and reflex to fight, flight or freeze. The body prepares for the threat by releasing nor-epinepheron and epinephrine through the system in turn increasing it’s heart rate, […]
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About Trauma
Trauma is an interesting phenomenon for mammals. We as human mammals have a more difficulty with trauma because our cognition can become part of getting stuck or frozen in time. By stuck, I mean the past becomes present in body sensation, memory, image, emotion, and/or behavior. A person no longer has a choice in his/her […]