Better Tools

There are a number of factors that go into trauma healing. Being safe is the first.

Have you ever had a flat in winter on an icy surface? Scary isn't it? You have to jack the car up, and wrestle with the damn lug nuts, knowing that any real movement or force is gonna know the car off the diamond screw jack. And just as I got the last nut on, sure as heck the jack fails, and the car drops down on the ground, knocking me over. Yea, that slightly leaning back and to the driver side. All icy. Not exactly the safest conditions for what I wanted to accomplish.

In trauma healing, safety comes first. And not what you talk yourself into. If the body doesn't feel it, it won't happen.

When it comes to a better tool, then a hydraulic jack would have been better, in a heated and flat garage!

What you see in the image are well used and comfortable tools. Definitely analog, yea? However, they are well worn and in the hands of the craftsman can produce beautiful results. And importantly, they each have specific jobs, fitted to the work they do. See that hammer? It isn't a framing hammer. It can do what a framing hammer cannot do. A nail gun will do even better than the framing hammer, and what this toolbox shows is a chisel head ball peen hammer. A very specific tool, made for specific work.

Trauma healing isn't any different. Using better tools will produce better results. Optimal results, in fact.

Two tools I'll briefly mention are a better environment (that flat, warm garage) and a better "mechanic." One not trauma informed, or trauma aware. Trauma experienced in knowing how it works, and having healed it, and trauma trained, meaning they did textbook work and clinical work. For two years.

Trauma is by nature an autonomic neurophysiological state. It isn't an event. As we see from the image below, it's a cycle. An autonomic signal of threat starts the cycle and....

QUICK QUIZ!

What makes up the deactivation stage? What innate neurophysiological process completes this cycle and discharges it from the body, never to be a problem again?

Therein lies the problem, yes? We get into fight/flight/freeze, and don't complete it. Then we get stuck in cycle after cycle after cycle just in the first few hours of the day, and that is what it means to be traumatized. Because we try and use the incorrect tool. Traumatizing stress is autonomic. Yoga is not. The threat cycle is autonomic. Talking at it is not. Trauma is neurophysiological. CBT is not. Nor is EMDR, or brainspotting, any motor control activity. They might bring relief, but they are not the innate process that deactivates by completion and discharge.

At Raise Your Resilience? in our Toolbox Program? we teach you how to use the innate completion and discharge process as a foundational tool (and yours ever after then) to get those autonomic neurophysiological cycles out of your body. Completed, and discharged.

How does that sound? Gone for good. And thereafter preventing.

To that in the different modules we introduce other tools to accompany this powerful natural tool, to produce a healing that is complete, and changes over into growth. A life that you consider priceless because of it's value to you. A life that you make.

Still sounding good? Your age doesn't matter. I started when I was 58. It was worth every penny and every second I invested.

Better tools, better focus, better outcome?

Yes, I'll tire of "TM" everything once they're registration is approved, and then maybe I won't have to do it all the time. It's still true. Lawyer suggested protecting my intellectual property, despite my suggesting that it's biopsychosomasocial property.....