I am now looking into Farias’s work and am feeling actually a bit queasy at the parallels to my clinical work. The difference being my work is a bodywork practitioner based clinical intervention. Again the patients with dystonia that Farias describes are exactly the types of clients I see and his reasoning and research results confirms my own thinking on the processes and mechanisms at work. I’m feeling ill because of the enormity of the task ahead of me to engage with other researchers and try and communicate in a professional manner such that I will be taken seriously.
Yep, I can definitely relate. Maybe see it as an opportunity to listen to the worried one. See if you can dialogue with that voice and find out where the fear of not measuring up comes from. Is it possible to let go of the outcome and enjoy the journey? That might make it easier to just take it one step at a time. That's all we can really ever do anyways. I think you can do it!
Thank you for the discussion. I can relate. I am in retirement now. Before I have been a bodywork practitioner for 35y and kinesiologist. And still am a "long term patient" with chronic issues, tons of blind spots, periods of brain fog, confusion, worry and more :)
There is this interview from Irene Lyon,
"Irene´s story of coming out of functional freeze with Seth Lyon" who is her husband interviewing her about her trauma healing story. I find it particularly interesting and moving, in many ways. She explains her findings on functional freeze - rooting in chemical/toxic trauma and how difficult it is to reach this deep metabolic level.
@iamthatis, I feel that shaking can have so many causes. Its complex. I think its more complex than SE presents it. Not every shaking is a trauma release. There is eg. toxic trauma shaking - which I sense is blocked self regulation and probably much more that I don´t know about. Since some time, I notice it within myself. My hands started to shake more in the last years. And my thoughts about its causes also went into the spike protein direction. I don´t know.
At min 29:00 on Irene talks about being in Peter Levine´s professional training, getting a demo session with him - and it did
not go well. I myself have experienced several sessions like that from different teachers, that were, as Irene stressed - actually re-traumatizing. Its a whole topic in itself, the training context and trauma.
@gottathink, yes there is an enormity in this task to figure it all out - even by well known teachers in the field. And then even present it to other professionals. Along all the years I thought a lot about this task and weight. What I want to say is, that even well known experts make lots of "mistakes" all the time. It seems, thats how it is. If there is modesty, then these are no mistakes but ongoing learning. It´s an infinite puzzle, each finding is valuable, connecting the dots in a multidimensional reality. How to do that the forum teaches like no other place. I really feel what trauma is and how to work with it for healing, we all are at the beginning. Clients and professionals. We are all severely traumatized and try to figure it out - at best - together :)
