To move from self-improvement to self-actualization requires support. Positive Psychotherapy can help with all of the aforementioned strategies and more. Check in with yourself. Tune in to your needs, talents, and eccentricities. Be you as much as possible and acknowledge when you aren’t being you so that you can examine why.
EMDR works by supporting the brain’s ability to shift its perspective and strengthen its own positive networks. Thanks to such neuroplasticity (the brain’s capacity to develop entirely new neural pathways) the research indicates that distress can be overcome. You can alleviate what bothers you quickly and effectively. In other words, you can adapt and thrive. You can trust the evidence.
Trauma treatment recovery can be so tough because we fear being so broken by our painful experience that we can’t move on. Yet, this fear actually gets in our way. Anxiety about falling apart can become a preoccupation. It can impede our recovery as we rush to be “okay” attempting to skip crucial steps to wholeness and wellbeing. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Anxiety disorder coping is best achieved by managing and responding to stressors with immediate, intentional strategies that will keep you inside your “window of tolerance. “ Let’s define our terms and explore how staying in the window of tolerance can bring you more comfort and peace of mind. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Post traumatic growth challenges and reforms the deep beliefs that kept you stuck in your trauma. You’re not simply employing an ability to get back to yourself, you instead endure the time and struggle necessary to transform into someone with a new worldview. A worldview that wouldn’t be possible without the traumatic experience. So, how do you know if you’re experiencing post-traumatic growth?
Most of us can list the PTSD negatives and the harm of trauma without much effort. Yet, the idea of PTSD positive change and any potential help created by trauma may not readily spring to mind. In the midst of your hurt, the physical, mental, and emotional pain may be too overwhelming at first. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Somatic therapy for chronic pain proves there’s more than one way to heal. That concept is at the heart of somatic therapy. And when it comes to healing from chronic pain, the relief this kind of therapy brings is keenly unique and transformational. You and your therapist will get you back into your body by facing the fear or resistance to movement that is limiting your life.
What is the evidence of post-traumatic growth? Your trauma now allows you to see life differently and bounce beyond the old you. You’ve grown and changed for the better. You are starting to realize that, along with the pain and distress, came something life-changing and new. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Somatic Psychotherapy was developed through various contributions, such as Gestalt Therapy, Dreambody Work, Authentic Movement and others. It remains one of the central teaching modalities of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University. This method attempts to bring awareness to feelings, movements, sensations, etc., as an attempt to restore expressive movement.
