Understanding "Deep Breathing Doesn’t Work for Me" and Other Problems of Resourcing with Complex Trauma
05/29/21 • 9 min
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“Deep Breathing Doesn’t Work for Me”
- Understanding that Pervasively Traumatized Nervous Systems are Different than Non-Traumatized Nervous Systems
- Don’t Tell Clients What they Will or Should Feel in Resourcing, Think of it as an Opportunity to Get Helpful Information
- Car with a Cinder Block on the Gas Petal Metaphor
- Pairing Body Scan and Resources
- The Importance of Asking Permission and How Long Resource will Last
- Modeling a Single Breath and Using that Information Select a Breath that May be More Tolerable
- With Some Clients, the Goal is to Find a Resource that Isn’t Actively Triggering
- Using Body Scans without Much of an Agenda
- Understanding What a Resource “Working” Looks Like... If it Calms You, It May Only Calm You for a Moment
- Noticing the Body is Also a Crucial Phase Two Resource
- Body Scanning is a Good Strategy to Promote Embodiment, So Clients Can be Imbodied Enough to Notice
- Homework: Practice Resources During the Times of the Day When Anxiety Isn’t Going Straight Up, Noticing the Layer Below is a Good Way to Lower Baseline Anxiety in the Short Term and Prepare for Reprocessing
“Deep Breathing Doesn’t Work for Me”
- Understanding that Pervasively Traumatized Nervous Systems are Different than Non-Traumatized Nervous Systems
- Don’t Tell Clients What they Will or Should Feel in Resourcing, Think of it as an Opportunity to Get Helpful Information
- Car with a Cinder Block on the Gas Petal Metaphor
- Pairing Body Scan and Resources
- The Importance of Asking Permission and How Long Resource will Last
- Modeling a Single Breath and Using that Information Select a Breath that May be More Tolerable
- With Some Clients, the Goal is to Find a Resource that Isn’t Actively Triggering
- Using Body Scans without Much of an Agenda
- Understanding What a Resource “Working” Looks Like... If it Calms You, It May Only Calm You for a Moment
- Noticing the Body is Also a Crucial Phase Two Resource
- Body Scanning is a Good Strategy to Promote Embodiment, So Clients Can be Imbodied Enough to Notice
- Homework: Practice Resources During the Times of the Day When Anxiety Isn’t Going Straight Up, Noticing the Layer Below is a Good Way to Lower Baseline Anxiety in the Short Term and Prepare for Reprocessing
Previous Episode
When Good Resources Go Bad
- Calm Place
- Why We Don’t Encourage Other People in Calm/Safe Place
- When Calm Place Without Someone Specific is Triggering
- The Problems of Trying to “Borrow Good Memories from a Bad Developmental Era”
- Calm Place Will Go Bad... And When It Does...
- Some Completely Expected Reasons Why Resourcing May Go Bad
- Resources Going Bad Are Rarely the Therapist “Fault”
- Container as a Powerful Resource for Working with Complex Trauma
- The Importance of Visualizing or Drawing from Somatic Memory
- Drive Through Bank Teller as Helpful and Accessible Container
- Building the Container Larger and Stronger than Needed
- Photoshop Metaphor for Container
- Be Careful Testing the Container with Real Trauma Containered in the Limbic Brain Immediately After You Create It
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