Writing for the stage is how you get to merge memory and fantasy into mastery over a traumatic event. Once you write a script, you have the option to take it one step further and unlock your inner thespian. If you can visualize a stage, I can walk you through how to write a script …
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Grounding is a major tool for working out of dissociation (Master Toolbox 1), lowering stress, and managing our flashbacks (Trauma Glossary 2). It calms us by using our five senses to become aware of our present environment. What is it you see? Hear? Touch? Smell? Taste? When we’re working with art or music, (and musical …
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Chances are, you’ve heard of the confrontation letter you never send or venting out your frustrations to an empty chair. What do they have in common? They are both old school methods for “telling off” the person who hurt you when confronting them in person is pointless. They are a means of gaining both closure …
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The two most effective treatments for CPTSD are EMDR and Somatic Work. What do the two have in common? Both are part of the Bottom-Up Therapies which are new and innovative methods for treating trauma. They help us contradict or master how we felt in our original trauma as we are processing what happened to …
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A visual guide through two weeks’ worth of articles. Using both Radical Acceptance and Poised Readiness. This is how we can escape the ripple effect of soul death and break free from the vicious cycle. An overview of vocabulary words from Poised Readiness: How to Defeat Procrastination in 5 Steps. Both Learned Helplessness and Shame …
Radical Acceptance and Poised Readiness for Growth: A Visual Aid Read More »
In my Frederick Douglass comic book, we were introduced to Poised Readiness and how it can resurrect us from soul death, itself. Poised Readiness acts as a bridge between Radical Acceptance and developing resiliency. It does so by reframing our thoughts against the vicious cycle of the “3” P’s, or procrastinating habits (covered in last …
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