Trauma is Really Strange

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At its heart, this book beautifully inspires the reader to see personal trauma as an opportunity for healing and growth.’ I think this book might be even better than the Trauma is Really Strange book... it really challenges you to re-examine your relationship with chronic pain. I am a bodyworker and author who is deeply interested in pain, trauma and anxiety. I run regular clinics: a week a month in London and roughly two weeks a month in Geneva. You can book direct here Listen to this podcast to explore what you can do change your anxiety experience and how you can support others to find agency and choice in meeting their anxiety. The first hour is an interactive talk on anxiety based on webinar given by Steve Haines – author of Anxiety is Really Strange, ‘Highly Commended’ by the British Medical Association. The last 20 mins explore using Relational Touch and embodied approaches to anxiety. Episode Notes Session work involves light touch, meditative awareness, TRE and education. Sessions are for anybody with pain, anxiety and trauma. There is a lot of ill health and suffering around. Most people initially start with pain, emotional distress, low energy, anxiety.

Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines, Sophie Standing Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines, Sophie Standing

I was like a kid in a sweet shop in my late twenties. There were so many exciting courses and models to study. Yoga, led to massage, led to shiatsu, led to zen meditation, led to cranial work. One thing that keeps coming up in All’s Well, is this notion that pain is a performance, something that is thought by others to be “all in your head.” That doesn’t sit right with me. It seems like gaslighting to describe it that way. But even people who study pain seem to struggle to pin it down. One quote from this comic that resonated with me was this:Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines is a free NetGalley ebook that I read during an early morning in December. Being as I live with free-floating anxiety nearly everyday, I knew that this book could offer a new perspective (even though the cover looks a little bit like the Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice). Steve Haines is author of the best selling Really Strange series. Trauma is Really Strange is far and away the best selling book in the series, people really want to learn about what is happening when we feel overwhelmed. Using simple comics, concise explanations and a healthy dose of wit, this clever book not only explains how trauma affects our body and brain, but more importantly, outlines how to support our body’s innate ability to discharge and recover from trauma.’ Very insightful, well researched, cleverly illustrated and written in a way that helps explain a complex, often elusive idea in relatively simple terms. I've suffered from 'regional-complex-pain-syndrome' for three years now, a diagnosis that seems super intense but is really just the name for conditions the specialists don't quite know what to do with. I've been to nerve specialists, doctors, cranial osteopaths, physios - you name it who have tried to put a name to what I'm experiencing, they don't understand why I have pain but noone's made an effort to even explain how it happens or what pain really is.

Trauma is Really Strange | Singing Dragon - US Trauma is Really Strange | Singing Dragon - US

This is a BRILLIANT, absolutely brilliant, comprehensible in its entirety explanation of what trauma is--to both those trying to work through it and those trying to understand what it is that happens in the minds-bodies of their loved ones. The author and illustrator work so well together to The model offered here is that inherent within you is the ability to switch off over-reactive protective reflexes. You are not mad or broken. Recalibrating the smoke detector of the amygdala is a great start to healing trauma." This short animation explores the phenomenon of dissociation. Most people know about ‘fight-or-flight’ not enough people know about ‘freeze’. ‘Dissociation is the essence of trauma’(van der Kolk B (2014) The Body Keeps The Score.Viking). My worldview has been deeply informed by the AIDs epidemic and the activism that emerged in the 80’s and 90’s and continues to this day. In the early days of AIDs dynamics around health advocacy and alternative medicine were life and death realities. Another big shift in me occurred at this time, from hopeful versions of eastern philosophy and energy models, to seeking an evidence base and asking ‘Can you prove that?’Ever since I joined medical school, the most common questions I've come across by patients and my own family members is regarding pain. Mostly chronic pain. Other than providing the same old painkillers, all I do is look at them blankly.