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Is It Possible We Choose Caregiving Professions As A Side Effect Of Developmental Trauma?
Since so many of you resonated with what I posted last week from Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre's book Healing Developmental Trauma about not getting your developmental need for connection met, let me share one more thing, based on the NeuroAffective Relational...
Your Illness Could Be The Aftermath Of Nervous System Dysregulation Caused By Untreated Trauma
In my book Sacred Medicine (which will be published Spring 2022 with Sounds True), I weave the threads between energy medicine, shamanism, spiritual healing, and healing trauma, making the case that many chronic or life-threatening illnesses that conventional medicine...
What Happens When A Baby’s Developmental Need For Intimate Connection With Mother Goes Unmet?
I've been reading Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre's book Healing Developmental Trauma about the trauma healing method, NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Their work has given me such helpful personal and professional insight into a predictable set of trauma...
How To Fill Your Tank When You Get Anemic On Life Force
In my next book Sacred Medicine, I divided up the healing tools shared in the book (which will be published by Sounds True in Spring 2022!) into two categories- energy transfusions meant to fill you with life force when you're depleted, and trauma healing tools meant...
We Need Trauma Recovery For Health Care Workers
Because I used to be a doctor, I have my finger on the pulse of what it's been like to be a front-line Covid doctor, even though I've been safely sheltered in place since retiring from clinical practice over a decade ago. Among my friends, colleagues, clients, and...
A Front Line Covid ICU Doc & Virologist’s Thoughts On New CDC Mask Guidelines
The CDC has announced that vaccinated folks are now free to be maskless- both indoors and outdoors, unless they're in crowded spaces. I was wondering what Rick Loftus, MD, my most trusted source of Covid advice who is a front line Covid ICU doctor, virologist,...