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What is a Trauma Informed Coach?
Trauma coaches or trauma recovery coaches are coaches who have chosen to work with people who have experienced trauma. Let’s face it, we’ve all experienced trauma. However, these coaches are communicating that they work with clients who specifically acknowledge or intuit that their life has been affected by trauma. Trauma coaches may further niche by…
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Who’s On Your Healing Team?
Healing is a spectrum and sometimes requires a team approach. You may need to begin with a therapist, or even a therapist and a psychiatrist simultaneously. As you process past trauma, you’ll notice yourself hyper focusing less and less on past grievances; you’ll have learned tools to better maintain a healthy attitude and to better…
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Peter Levine on Trauma and Somatic Experiencing
If you’re not familiar with Peter Levine, it’s time to change that. Peter Levine created the therapeutic modality, Somatic Experiencing. SE helps clients/patients understand, recognize and process the lingering effects of trauma in the body. If you’ve followed my blog at all, you may notice I talk a lot about somatization, somatic writing, somatic meditation. …
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Coaching Through the Arts and Process Art
Coaching Through the Arts refers to a specific method I promote in session, on your own afterwards or in CTtA workshops that I lead. (Not all my workshops’s are CTtA.) Coaching Through the Arts prompts are also emailed monthly. The method I use is what Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley in Life, Paint and…
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How can organizing your home help you grow past your trauma induced limitations?
Seems a bit left field, I know. But here me out- it’s pretty amazing. I know very little about Feng Shui but I came across a Feng Shui concept a few years ago that made me take pause. Feng Shui’s direct translation is wind water. It is the study and practice of chi/qi/energy. Which makes…
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6 ½ Ways to Calm Your Nervous System Through Writing
Rushing to meet deadlines. Bobbing and weaving through traffic to pick the kids up on time. The clerk at the gas station reminds you of your Dad and you flinch. Staring into an empty fridge, you realize there’s nothing for dinner. You overhear your son repeating one of Mom’s favorite phrases and you cringe. The…
