Restoring the Capacity for Synchronicity and Imagination
The body keeps the score: overwhelming experiences are lived out in heartbreak and gut wrenching sensations, which leaves survivors feeling unsafe, frazzled, on edge, overwhelmed and shut down. The trauma that started outside is lived out in the theater of the body. As a result, survivors no longer feel safe inside their own skin. Recovery from trauma involves learning how to restore a sense of visceral safety and reclaiming a loving relationship with ones self, ones entire organism. Awareness of physical sensations forms the very foundation of our human consciousness. Healing can only occur if survivors can feel safe, self-led, and effective. (...)
Vortrag im Rahmen des Kongresses "Reden reicht nicht!?", Heidelberg, 26. - 29. Mai 2016