NVC Resources on Trauma
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Trauma and Sanctuary
One clue we have trauma is when we respond in a way we don't want (eg. being reactive, self sabotaging, etc). Even when we have high level NVC skills our trauma-related mechanisms can activate, and we can lose access to well honed NVC skills. Read on for approaches that involve healing trauma, and approaches that involve managing the effects of trauma and preventing additional trauma. Read this...
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Getting Past Childhood Trauma
Access this complete 8 session course The impact of early childhood trauma and neglect is enormous. Many of our core beliefs are formed from our instinctive attempts as babies or young children to survive, and these experiences are the origins of most inner jackal voices and fear-based behaviors. Because memory of this material is stored in the limbic system—an ancient part of the brain—‘talk...
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From Personal to Global Trauma
Our everyday personal experiences of diminishment, and the destruction of our planet has a through-line. Societal traumas lead to us shutting down to avoid pain, and this limits us. The avoidance shifts our brains so we don’t see other beings, species and our planet as wondrous, precious and irreplaceable. Thus, we meet others with diminishment, oblivion, or abuse; trauma keeps passing on. This...
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Trauma, Forgiveness & Your Close Relationships
yourself wondering how humanity can possibly work through the deep issues that divide us. Political differences, infidelity, betrayal, acts of violence, world events, racism, intergenerational trauma, or unhealed wounds from childhood. If you have received empathy for these issues from multiple sources, and still there is no significant relief, then you might even start to question the...
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Healing Trauma, Finding Forgiveness Partners, Parents, Children, and Self (7 session course)
yourself wondering how humanity can possibly work through the deep issues that divide us. Political differences, infidelity, betrayal, acts of violence, world events, racism, intergenerational trauma, or unhealed wounds from childhood. If you have received empathy for these issues from multiple sources, and still there is no significant relief, then you might even start to question the...
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Empowering Kids Under Current Systems of Domination
Join Aya Caspi as she delves into the difficult topic of parenting, childhood trauma, and social status. She discusses the generational impact of being labeled by society as "less than" or subservient. The wounds of childhood trauma can be healed so they no longer are a means of control by a dominant culture. Childhood trauma has a significant impact on a person. Often a person feels inferior...
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Change Is Afoot
One way to understand trauma is it means we got a blow greater than our nervous system can tolerate – then we move into hyperarousal, and then hypoarousal or dissociation. This cycle can continue long after. Here, we're not able to fully process emotional cues, information, our body, and others. It's important we consider re-writing the cultural paradigm of separation so that our trauma doesn't...
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Increasing Your Capacity to Feel
Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma (thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts. The more that parents do these two things, the wider their windows of tolerance will be for big emotions, intense experiences, and difficult situations, and...
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Rethinking Societal Dynamics
particularly the prevalence of extrinsic motivation rooted in fear of punishment, desire for rewards, and a sense of obligation. The emphasis is on how these dynamics contribute to collective trauma and affect brain development. Examples, such as Hitler's childhood and the adverse effects of the educational system, are used to illustrate the consequences of such practices. Aya advocates for...
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Help for Overwhelm
Reducing overwhelm requires you to reconnect with your authentic choice, be present and compassionate with what's happening, heal trauma, and interrupt the trauma response. Read on for ways that may help you reconnect with your choice, presence and more on trauma. Read this article Keywords: stress busy overwhelm authenticity LaShelle Lowe-Chardé Elia Lowe Charde
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