IP-Integrated Practices for Healing Trauma Groups
The effects of trauma can have a significant impact on both the body and mind and on our daily lives. The Integrated Practices (IP) groups use current trauma theory to explore the neurobiological and relational effects of trauma. Although we know the effects of trauma can be various and pervasive, in this group we honor that another experience is possible. Group members will learn practices that can help them develop an increased capacity to work with painful traumatic experiences and an increased awareness of internal experience in the present moment.
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Tuning In To Ourselves This New Year
Society often prioritizes external measures of progress, improvement, and success. We are surrounded by cultural messages and images of achievement. Aside from the occasional memoir, we are rarely exposed to the steps and setbacks along the way. Seldom are we exposed to the internal experience attached to external outcomes. We are unlikely to challenge what…
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Starting Small: Building Capacity for Present-Centered Awareness
A history of trauma can make it difficult to feel present. Often in an effort to stay safe, our mind and body pull us into our past or become hyper-vigilant about our future. Though these strategies are adaptive and often helpful in surviving traumatic experiences, when they become habitual we can be left feeling out…
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COVID-19, Essential Trauma Concepts, IP-Integrated Practices for Healing Trauma Groups, Trauma-Informed ServicesIntegrated Practices in the Time of Coronavirus
In the 10 years I have been facilitating Integrated Practices (formerly Becoming Safely Embodied) group, before this past March I had not considered providing them online. I have run groups consistently throughout these years as a part of my practice and I am deeply connected to this aspect of my work. Due to the…
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Deepening Connection and Healing through the Group Experience
How do I know if I should do a group experience? What are the criteria for readiness? As I write this, another cohort of brave people is halfway into a 12 week group experience, supporting their individual healing paths by participating in Becoming Safely Embodied. There is no replacement for solid, trauma-informed individual treatment for…
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Mermaid Toes: A Client’s Perspective on Becoming Safely Embodied
In 2008, I had the opportunity to train with Deirdre Fay, LCSW when she came to Chicago to present her group model for working with individuals who had a history of trauma, Becoming Safely Embodied. Since then, I have had the honor of walking on the journey with many folks as they reclaimed a sense…
