As a senior faculty member who teaches throughout Europe and the U.S., I have noticed a few universal themes with...
POINT OF VIEW
Disembarkment Syndrome Connected to Trauma
A patient who had multiple sports-related injuries as a young girl went on a cruise devoted to deep-water scuba...
Shooting at Colorado Theater
Dear SE® Community, We are deeply shocked and saddened by the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting this morning, in...
Touching into Channels of Healing and Transformation
I recently returned from Haiti where I went for trauma healing work with victims of the 2010 earthquake. We were a...
SE Practitioners React to the Notion of a “Forgetting Pill”
An article in the March, 2012 issue of Wired magazine suggests "a new drug can target your worst memories— and erase...
Re-Establishing ‘Grounding’ in Haiti after the Earthquake
My first visit to Haiti was just one month after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. The scale of destruction to...
SE and the Autism Spectrum: Hypersensitivity and Hyperarousal
I have a question for Somatic Experiencing® practitioners: Have you worked with people for whom regular, everyday life...
If I Had Half a Brain … (Connecting with My Body)
I used to describe myself as “all left-brain.” That side of me, the...
The Faces of Cruel Reality in North Kivu, DRC
Faces, hundreds of faces are what I recall of the 11 months I spent in the North Kivu province of the Democratic...

