There are different schools of yoga and, while using a modified version of hatha yoga, trauma-sensitive yoga can be seen as its own school. It means that trauma-sensitive yoga is not automatically what you get when you take a class in a yoga center. You need to ask about it specifically. If you can’t find […]
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Trauma-sensitive Yoga: The why to
The more research is done regarding the treatment of cPTSD the clearer it becomes that approaches like talk therapy and exposure have their limits. Talk therapy misses the fact that it is our body that stores traumatic memories and many chronically traumatized patients never reach the stability needed for successful exposure. One useful addition to […]
Unspecific Body Work
We tend to think of PTSD as a mental illness when really a huge part of it is physical. It is not just our world view, the patterns in our thinking and our relationships that make up PTSD, it is also hyper/hypoarousal, hypervigilance, flight/fight response, chronic stress and intense emotions, all physical experiences. We can […]
Helpful Books List ( for cPTSD and DID)
People keep asking me about books they could read to educate themselves about cPTSD, DID, therapy or self-help options. The truth is that I myself have only read a very limited number of books and not all of them were helpful. I will share with you a list of books that I personally consider worth […]
Book Review: The haunted Self (van der Hart, Nijenhuis, Steele)
The haunted self – structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization by O. van der Hart, E. Nijenhuis, K. Steele Written for: good DID therapists and those who want to become one, doctors whose job it is to recognize structural dissociation in patients Special focus: structural dissociation What it is not: written for […]
Calming your Inner Child: Help for stressed Littles
You don’t need to have DID to have younger parts inside of you who might sometimes get agitated, scared, confused and stressed. Ignoring them and pushing through will not solve the problem long-term. You use dissociation to even make it possible and it will only increase the inner despair. Calming Littles is not as difficult […]
Grounding activities for mild dissociation
Sometimes when life is stressful and there is a lot going on inside, we are not fully connected to the body. It rather feels like a fuzzy cloud without clear boundaries. When we are already stressed and overwhelmed, it is not always smart to go for the hard DBT Skills for the body because they […]
Transitional objects in trauma therapy
Sometimes Ts offer transitional objects to take home with you til your next appointment, especially when they plan to go on a vacation or when things are a little shaky. What is that all about? And how is it supposed to help? For many survivors their T and the Ts office are like a […]
Learning to guide your thoughts (mindfulness meditation)
Our thoughts are often like monkeys, jumping from one tree to the other. With depression or PTSD they might also be circling and sometimes become tornadoes that suck us into a dark place. It takes practice, but we can learn how to gain more control over our thoughts through meditation. Nobody is “good” at meditating. […]
Gamify your challenges (difficult days)
“In every job that must be done There is an element of fun You find the fun and snap! The job’s a game And every task you undertake Becomes a piece of cake A lark! A spree! It’s very clear to see that A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Mary Poppins […]
Being with our Selves: Integration for structural dissociation
If we experience repeated and ongoing trauma, especially as a child, our ability to make sense of us and the world will get hurt. We can’t integrate our experience of pain and apparently normal life, a perpetrator being a caregiver and an abuser, us being innocent and feeling guilty, feeling shame and anger and helplessness […]
Staying with ourselves – integrating our trauma history
Trauma is full of pain and unbearable feelings. It is a natural response to not want to feel that. So we numb our emotions, disconnect from the awareness of our bodies and avoid the memories. This is a very useful strategy to get through the trauma without having to experience all of it. But it […]
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