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Play Episode 86 Here Some of our clients have been “going, going, going” and are going to continue doing so until they “collapse.” When we can see that coming it’s often worth introducing the idea of planning or preparing a […]

Play Episode 85 Here There are times in sessions when movement becomes increasingly free and involuntary. It’s a special thing to watch the body “come out of freeze” like that. And there are cautions: like being attentive that a sharp

Play Episode 84 Here When we’re stressed we think less. That’s true for everyone but it’s an especially vexing fact for our distressed clients – many of whom desperately need to make more helpful and healthful decisions on behalf of their

Play Episode 83 Here There’s a classic moment in SE sessions when a client is successfully moving through the activation cycle only to balk at allowing the discharge or deactivation phase because it “feels too weird” and indeed often times

Play Episode 81 Here Practically speaking, when every knew sensation is a threat there are things that SE Practitioners need to do in order to enable success rather than recapitulate the feeling of pain, failure, or the impossibility for change.

Play Episode 79 Here Challenged sleep is a psycho-historical phenomenon of the times in which we live. It’s also a very real and personal experience for many of our clients. Being able to think and talk about sleep from multiple

Play Episode 78 Here One paradox in our SE work is the need to engage the “problem state” or “Red/Trauma Vortex” material and at the same time avoid it becoming too much of itself. Some of us get quite good

Play Episode 77 Here Our SE sessions are made up of dozens, if not hundreds, of elements of experience encountered in the moment. Part of our task as SE Practitioners is to help clients thread their attention through these elements