PART I: SELF CONNECTION
THE GUIDE
Our sense of security and trust (in ourselves, in others, and in reality itself) often starts with our family environment – the foundation upon which our personality, future relationships, and physical/psychological health is based.
As children, we may have experienced varying degrees of material and emotional security. Even if the caregivers and authority figures in our lives had the best of intentions and were generally supportive and loving people, it’s likely that we did not come out of our early years without experiencing some form of disappointment, loss, betrayal, boundary violation, or traumatic event.
For some of us, there may have been times when our needs for respect, positive self-regard, emotional, psychological or physical safety were severely threatened or violated (worse yet, by the very people who professed to have our best interest at heart.)
4. TRUST & TRAUMA
Essay by Katarzyna Vedah. June 2, 2018
Having our security and trust compromised in this way could have shaken us to the core, leading to a chronic feeling of being unsafe in the world, and damaging our ability to trust ourselves and others.
The shock and pain of such experiences may stay stuck in our minds, hearts and bodies like shrapnel unless we learn to process the energy out of our system and find our resilience again, cultivating our inner resources and core value so as to build a stronger foundation from which to take root and explore the world with a reclaimed sense of our own power and capability.
As adults, we can choose to “consciously let go of what belittles us and makes us suffer” (Guy Corneau, Lessons in Love), so as to let go of our illusions and seek the best sources of support to aid in our healing.
We can hone our discernment and choose what we accept from others and what we don’t, knowing when our boundaries have been crossed and how to defend our limits - not with aggression or in retaliation, but with self-awareness, respect and grace.
VIDEO (YouTube): School of Life
Why Introspection Matters
What is ‘Trauma’ & How to Cope
You Might be Suffering from PTSD
VIDEO (YouTube): TED
Psychology of Post-Traumatic Stress
The Paradox of Trauma-Informed Care
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health
DOCU-SERIES: The Nature of Things
DOCUMENTAREY: Trailer
Paper Tigers (James Redford)
Tell Me Who I Am (Ed Perkins)
The Work (Aldous & McLeary)
RIPPLE EFFECT
CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS TO ENGAGE THE CAPACITY TO FEEL
MEMORY-SCAPES & SHADOW-LANDS
MUSIC / VIDEO (YouTube):
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Running with the Wolves - Aurora
ANIMATED FILM (Vimeo): Rupert Gibb
The Mysterious Geographical Explorations of Jasper Morello
VIDEO (YouTube):
Triumph Over Darkness (CBC Arts)
Pete's Story: NSPCC (Daniel Bruson)
FILM (YouTube): Trailer
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
Lion (Garth Davis)
ARTIST / VIDEO (Vimeo): Cardiff & Miller
WEBSITE:
HEALTHY M.O.
HEALTHY MENTAL OUTLOOK & PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT
HEALING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
VIDEO (YouTube): School of Life
A Messed Up Childhood Affects You
Hypervigilance & How to Overcome It
VIDEO (YouTube): TED Talk
Core Problem of Childhood Trauma
Play Therapy: Holding Hard Stories
VIDEO (YouTube): Crappy Childhood Fairy
Most CPTSD Treatments Don't Work
NEVER Say this to Someone with CPTSD
WEBSITE: Crappy Childhood Fairy
VIDEO (YouTube):
(EMDR International Association)
How PTSD Impacts a Relationship
(MedCircle)
VIDEO (YouTube): Teal Swan
VIDEO (YouTube): Christina Lopes
HEALING THE FRACTURED SELF
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
VIDEO (YouTube): Gerlach
What is a Grown Wounded Child?
Explanation of Inner-Family Therapy
Who ARE you? Personality Subselves
How to Identify your Subselves
Reduce Mind-Chatter & Inner Conflicts
WEBSITE: Break the Cycle - Peter Gerlach
VIDEO (YouTube):
How to Trust Yourself (Teal Swan)
Healing of Trauma (Emotion Dynamics)
VIDEO (YouTube):
Dissociation: Why it Happens (Kati Morton)
Physical Signs of Past Trauma (MedCircle)
Rebounding from Trauma (Sounds True)
How Trauma Sticks in the Body (PESI)
Reframe a Traumatic Experience (NICABM)
WEBSITE: Somatic Experiencing
BOOK: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma.
By Peter A. Levine & Ann Frederick
VIDEO (YouTube): Therapy in a Nutshell
Heal the Nervous System from Trauma
BOOK / WEBSITE: Moving Beyond Trauma.
SHIFT GEARS
EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES, AWARENESS & CONSCIOUSNESS
COLLECTIVE TRAUMA, GRIEF & RESILIENCE
VIDEOS (YouTube): TED
Trauma Change Resilience - M. McElheran
Our Collective Trauma - N. Young
Trauma of Technology - T. Hübl
WEB ARTICLE: BBC Future
How to Heal the Mass Trauma of Covid-19.
By Ed Prideaux.
VIDEO (YouTube):
Grief, It's Complicated - S. Delaney (TED)
Grief & Surviving Loss (Emotion Dynamics)
VIDEO: Minnesota Men's Conference
VIDEOS (YouTube): Thomas Hübl
Healing Personal + Collective Trauma.
Resilience in a Time of Crisis & Pandemic.
WEBSITE: Thomas Hübl
BOOK / EXCERPT: Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational & Cultural Wounds.
By Thomas Hübl, Julie Jordan Avritt
What is Resilience? (Keynote Speakers)
Resilience Resources (Roots of Empathy)
Relevant Interventions (Roots of Empathy)
Build Resilience to a Secure Life (Teal Swan)