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Maximize Your Creativity for Maximum Healing

Maximize creativity does not mean perfecting a skill. At least, not where healing is concerned. It’s safely practicing new things, recovering from mistakes, and learning to associate our creative lessons with life. Not all healing work has to feel like work. In fact, this article addresses the magical healing powers of right-brain work. Creativity, that …

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The Cognition Sheet: More Reasons it’s an Important Tool

I’ve mentioned the value of the cognition sheet several times before. It’s listed in Master Toolbox 1 twice: both as a tool for alexithymia and again for transference. (Both underlined terms are in Trauma Glossary 2.) I even included it as a troubleshooting tool for working with our Broca’s Area (Trauma Glossary 3 under parts of …

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The Branches of Healing: How to Open Pathways for Emotional Flow

The Branches of Healing shows how we can open neuropathways. Doing so helps us work through the emotion overwhelm. This tree also represents the right side (creativity) and left side (logic) of the brain. The more pathways we use, the better we are at managing our flashbacks. Even mastery is possible. Using the tree analogy, …

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Theater Therapy: Unlock Your Inner Thespian Part 2

Theater is the most overlooked branch of creativity, especially when using it to work through our trauma. There are many good reasons it goes unnoticed, of course. For one thing, drama therapists are not available in every city. Another reason is that we don’t all have immediate access to a stage. Lastly, both social anxiety …

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Writing for the Stage via Scripted Trauma: Unlock Your Inner Thespian Part 1

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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Art and Musical EMDR: How to Use Them for Grounding

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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