When preparing my land for a big fire, a small fire nearly got out of my control. Similar to working with Global High Activation and other patterns that quickly lead to a conflagration, we often need to put in buffers or fire lines before working with flammable stuff. Here’s a little metaphor story from my
What can an SEP do when a “Natural Disaster” comes to their backyard? It’s happened to a lot of us already, it will surely happen to more in the years to come. Here’s some background on what I did when the largest wildfire in Washington State History, the Carlton Complex, started 5 minutes walk from
When is crying productive? When isn’t it? When do we encourage it? When do we avoid it? Those are good questions. None of which will be answered for you in this episode. Instead you’ll feel more informed as you continue to search for more and more ways to answer those questions on when crying is helpful,
One of the most common questions I’ve received is what to do after completing the official 3-year Somatic Experiencing training. How to deepen, expand or cultivate more skill with this paradigm for working with traumatic stress and integration of experience. Here is a ramble through the brambles of my thoughts on such things where I
Cogitating, reviewing, pre-playing our sessions after hours, we’re bound to do it. Taking work home with you is a known stress point in modern life and yet some professions demand it. The trauma recovery specialization is one of them. We do, and we need to, think intelligently about our sessions to improve our skills. We