When Your Body Feels Like the Enemy: Finding Safety Again After Sexual Trauma Sexual trauma is uniquely painful because it doesn’t just happen to you—it happens in your body, the most personal and intimate part of yourself. After such an experience, it can feel impossible to escape the pain. Everywhere you go, your body goes […]
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What is Brainspotting? David Grand, Ph.D., discovered Brainspotting (BSP) in 2003 as a body-based therapeutic approach aimed at healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. Unlike “top-down” approaches that focus on cognition and thinking, Brainspotting uses a “bottom-up” method, starting with where trauma is stored in the body. This approach directly addresses the profound
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Trauma changes brain chemistry by impacting the amygdala, hippocampus, and neocortex. This is why healing from trauma is a process for so many people. The amygdala is the emotional control center of the brain. Any time a threat is perceived, the amygdala will send the alarm, and the system will begin to engage in fight/flight/freeze/fawn
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Narrative Therapy believes that as people grow and develop throughout their life, they accumulate life experiences that then shape a narrative around their identity, worth, and value.
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