Yes, we are hosting a 3-day Phase 2 Brainspotting Training April 5, 6, 7, 2019.
To register, go to http://getignitedsite.com/brainspotting-training/
To apply for 21 CEs, visit https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=2142
Any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly!
This idea has popped up a few times recently, so I figured it was worth a re-post. I posted on this philosophy back in January 2016.
In couples therapy there is often a lot of fear and shame or protection around what is broken. But this Japanese philosophy, Kintsugi, is a perfect metaphor for how couples therapy works: by exposing the flaws and cracks, we can focus on them directly and heal them, with gold, making them stronger, more precious and more valuable than before the break.
Breaking, then healing, leads to becoming more.
Fall is absolutely my favorite season. I love the cooler crisp temperatures, the smell of apples and crunch of fallen leaves, pulling out sweaters and everything back-to-school related. I love Halloween and pumpkins and the colors of orange, red and yellow that sometimes make it look like the sun is shining on a foggy day.
It can also be a tough time of year for many as PTSD triggers can be the very same things that I love. Our olfactory nerve is directly linked to our amygdala, making smell our most powerful memory source. This is great in the case of fire or rotten food. Unfortunately, sometimes smells like Aunt Jane’s casserole or Uncle Max’s aftershave can drop someone to their knees. And with shorter days, more time indoors, close quarters, Fall and Winter can be very very tough for many.
The good news is that we now have tools to help find and heal these PTSD triggers. Brainspotting is remarkably effective at targeting and focusing on the core source of the trauma pain and aiding in it processing through and releasing, no matter how far back the incident was, or how recent it may be.
At kTherapy Katherine is now in New Hampshire full-time and is available to help you move through the landmine field of past hurts with Brainspotting, creating a new landscape to explore with fewer or no triggers.
I accept both NH and VT Medicaid as well as self-pay and HSA/FSA for payment. Please don’t hesitate to contact me and see how we can get you started.
I was introduced to this book on the Brainspotting with Veterans closed Facebook group. I just bought it, $0.99, and it is truly amazing! The author, Barry Zworestine, has made this gift available for such a low price, please look into it.
Even though it is written by and for veterans, it is adaptable and relevant to most humans with trauma, addiction, PTSD, relationship struggles, athletes and on and on. I am so excited to have found this small but truly gem-like tool. I am going to share it as far and wide as I can!
I have been asked to be on a panel to discuss the nature of violence, gun emergencies and how to prevent, respond and heal from them. I invite you to join in this free public conversation to gain education, information and community insight as to how and where help and healing is available.
I am pleased to announce that I will be giving a SECOND Introduction to Brainspotting Workshop for the NH Seacoast region. It will be Friday, April 6, from 3-5pm and will followed by a refreshements/networking gathering.
It is being hosted by Naomi Rather at Whole Life Health Care, located at 100 Shattuck Way, Newington, NH 03801. You can register with Naomi directly at naorather [at] gmail [dot] com or by calling 603-431-6677 x365.
There will also be an opportunity to purchase 2 CEs through R. Cassidy Seminars.
I am excited to help bring Brainspotting to the Northern New England region. Please don’t hesitate in contacting me if your region might like a workshop as well.
Katherine will be giving an Introduction to Brainspotting Workshop on March 2, 2018 from 5-7pm hosted by Center for Integrative Health, 45 Lyme Road, Suite 200, Hanover, NH.
There will be a networking and refreshments gathering afterwards. Please contact Katherine to register.
See further details in the attached flier. All healing professionals are welcome!
If you’d like to earn 2 CE credit, please register here: https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=1627
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays!
This time of year typically brings a huge amount of anxiety and depression when people are focused on keeping up appearances or making up for perceived lack or life about-turns or dealing with grief and loss, all the while trying to maintain a cheery positive exterior. Every single day I mention to clients that they are better off just being “a good honest version of you” and not a shiny version that someone else needs, just to make them feel better or avoid tough feelings or facts. Ugh. It’s so much work not being you!
Our teens are, sadly, struggling too. Holiday downtime might be the very best time to “detox” kids off of their screens and develop better eating and time management techniques; there’s no school schedule to adhere to, we can give them the 3-5 days that any detox takes and they can enter the next semester cleaner and calmer. But, as I also see every day, this is a very unpopular idea. (btw, flip phones have had their single biggest year of sales increase last year…)
The key is not just closing down the devices, maintaining regular sleep and clean eating patterns, getting out into nature and being active, and encouraging a healthy dose of boredom – it’s that they need ALL of these simultaneously. Many practitioners are stuck in focusing on the surface symptoms (depression, disordered eating, anxiety, cutting, etc.) instead of seeing these as the clues to the deeper issue: kids have pain. And, frankly, much of their pain is our fault. Just because we have these shiny devices and ridiculous sports schedules and convenient drive-throughs it does not mean that their developing brains can manage or deal with it. In our home, devices are typically referred to as “portable dopamine pumps” (citing David Greenfield of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction). And that’s exactly what they are; for adults to a certain degree, but completely to adolescent brains. As I also say every single week: Mother Nature will win this one. We must honor and work with the facts of healthy brain development, quick fixes and scapegoating will get us more of the disastrous results we are seeing.
I love natural solutions and amino-acid supplements as bridges from a toxic landscape into a healthy valley. Trudy Scott always offers wonderful, scientifically-backed (not popular with big pharma) solutions for self-empowerment and taking the reins back. Her recent blog post is very good at describing tools and methods to get teens off of pharma by using amino acids, diet and lifestyle change to traverse this difficult landscape. Parents need to make all of the same changes too, which in my humble opinion, is often why it’s even harder for households to admit and adhere to the changes that are needed. There will be pain – for one and all. But the pain of good change is always preferable to the pain of remaining the same.
Recently, I have become smitten with a local NH advocate for letting kids experience the gift of failure. Jessica Lahey brings sensible, sound and do-able tips to overwhelming feelings and the fear of change. So many parents are terrified of their kids being out-paced or left out or left behind, but have we all slowed down enough to really wonder about where this more-faster-opportunity-fear path is leading us, and them?
So, there you have it, my reflections and offerings to one and all this holiday season. We can all disengage and unplug just a bit more, make a few healthier changes each day regarding diet and time management, and get outside even for a few more minutes every single day. May these changes make you and your 2018 healthy and bright!
The Holiday Season is upon us and with it there can be extra “bumps” for many of us.
Katherine is now available in Hanover for full-days Mondays (9-6) and still half-days Fridays (1-6). Due to Christmas and New Year’s being on Mondays this year, we will have to see what scheduling will allow to cover the holiday season.
In case I can’t meet everyone’s needs, here is a favorite video, a classic Lil Bub Yule Log offering of extreme relaxation and calm in the sea of hubbub out there. Enjoy!
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