Hi everyone, First of all, I apologize for the lack of activity here. I became burned out at my day job and it has taken a while to resolve all of that and get some rest. I'm back in action now and creating content for you, which you will see by the end of the weekend. I will be posting a video and some worksheets to go along with it. In the meantime, I've just watched a Master Class by Dr. Aimie Apigian and Diane Poole Heller on the biology of attachment and early safety. It was profound because it really explains why people have so many chronic conditions they can't trace directly to trauma. There's a five session class for $297. I'm not an affiliate - I think I'm going to take it so I thought I"d share the link. Here it is: https://healingattachmentwounds.com/#contact-popup And sorry about not checking for irrelevant sale pitches for web services on here. You won't see those posts anymore because those users are now or will soon be banned.

I love the HeartMath Institute! Here's a link to their free ebook and an explanation (from LinkedIn) "As a gesture of care, we are gifting you our eBook, 10 HeartMath® Practices For Reducing the Stress in Pressured Decisions, Choices, and Interactions. The articles and exercises can help encourage us to increase our care, kindness, compassion, and cooperation with each other. Chapter topics are Creating Hope for the Future, Together We Can Change the World, Pursuing Our Purpose, and more. " Access the 10 HeartMath® Practices For Reducing the Stress in Pressured Decisions, Choices and Interactions eBook, https://lnkd.in/g_qkuTuS

Here's another great free class from the Trauma Resource Foundation. https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/integrate-mind-body-practice-for-working-through-trauma/

Of the trauma responses - fight, flight, freeze, collapse, to me freeze is vexing because you can be in a functional freeze and still go on with life. It just robs you of all joy. Here's an article on identifying and overcoming the freeze response from Elephant Journal. I think the author's example is really her dissociating, but there's a freeze element to it too. https://elejrnl.com?p=4229195

The Trauma Research Institute, founded by Dr Bessel van der Kolk, offers learning opportunities on Tuesdays. They’re always free. I thought you might be interested in this series. Here’s the link. https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/lp/inspired-parenting-parenting-from-an-attachment-trauma-perspective/