Trauma-informed Journeying
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Method
Trauma occurs when an intense experience happens too quickly or too long and with too little time to process. An example of this is an accident, the unexpected death of a loved one or pet, a fall, sudden termination ect.
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What happens when too much happens too fast?
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In such an experience, our nervous system mobilizes all survival energy to fight or flee to get out of the threatening situation. But if our nervous system cannot successfully invest all that energy in fight or flight, then the energy built up for a life-saving response remains tied up in the nervous system. As a result, illness and other symptoms can often appear years after the traumatic event.
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In Trauma-informed Processing, the instincts of fight and flight are successfully ended and the survival energy is discharged. And the body can once again become a place of safety, strength and joy.
Approach
In conversation, sitting opposite each other, we draw our attention to your body sensations. Revisiting or remembering the traumatic experience is not necessary to work with this method. Through tracking the sensations in the body (warmth, tightness, expansion, tingling etc.) the survival impulses can be accessed and completed by slowly and mindfully inviting the movement and impulses for fight or flight.
By experiencing what is possible today, by offering your body the resources it lacked in the past, you gain a resource-based access to your body to get into a deeper embodiment. Your body can once again become a safe place where you can experience joy, pleasure and strength. Your nervous system can learn that your reality can transform and change - one sensation at a time!
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Normally a session takes place without touching. Depending on the treatment order, I recommend combining this method with Craniosacral Therapy.
The path to embodied power - one sensation at a time
Effect
Trauma-informed Processing has a balancing effect on the whole body, the psyche and the mind. When the nervous system is allowed to regulate itself, it learns to be able to go into deep relaxation and powerful energy again, which has a harmonizing effect on all organ systems. The muscles can find a healthy tonus, the hormone system can regulate itself again, the psyche gets stabilised, the ability to be in relaxed contact with people can become more effortless, setting limits can become easier, digestion can regulate itself, sexual desire
can be (re)discovered etc.
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Indication
Trauma-informed Processing is suitable
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preparatory to operations
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after accidents, (sexual) assaults, muggings, falls
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after natural disasters
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for working on various chronic diseases
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for pain without an organic cause
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with attachment difficulties, high tension and irritability in social contexts
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for hyperactivity, restlessness and exhaustion, ADHS
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with sleeping disorders
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for vague or specific fears, e.g. fear of flying, fear of dogs, exams, etc.
