https://traumahealing.org/working-with-developmental-trauma/ Somatic Experiencing International is the educational and humanitarian home for the SE™ method of trauma resolution Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://traumahealing.org/working-with-developmental-trauma/#comment-258 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:59:35 +0000 http://ac6.ab6.mwp.accessdomain.com/beyond-trauma-blog/?p=440#comment-258 I’m thrilled to have discovered your work and model, Dr. Heller. I’ve been a student and practitioner of somatic therapies since the late 1980s; Peter Levine’s work has been vital in my understanding of what trauma is and does … and your layering of developmental wisdom lights up a whole new facet of trauma treatment. Thank you! I’m ordering your book right away. ~ As a person who experienced grave medical trauma at birth and through earliest infancy, I went through several therapeutic processes that were regressive in nature; some were helpful (especially when the practitioner had great integrity and presence of mind), some were not — I’m now thinking of these less helpful interventions as well-intended for their time, but ones that activated the parasympathetic abreactivity that was habituated from birth — the collapse reaction. Your work of progression through disidentifying away from habits of survival is a beautiful antidote … a most encouraging route away from the seemingly intractable ‘freeze and fold’ lockdown that developmental trauma can cause. Again…thank you! 🙂

]]> https://traumahealing.org/working-with-developmental-trauma/#comment-257 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:51:59 +0000 http://ac6.ab6.mwp.accessdomain.com/beyond-trauma-blog/?p=440#comment-257 I’ve studied Peter Levine to some extent and apply his technques to myself at times when I am experiencing anxiety rooted in past traumas. This book Healing Developmental Trauma seems like it would be an excellent resource and I intend to buy one for myself and one for my daughter.

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