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Brainspotting

Good News for Trauma Sufferers!

2310884645Trauma keeps you in a vicious loop.

Numbness, sadness, and feelings of emptiness follow intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and hypervigilance.  You long for anything to help you escape. There’s nothing.

The answer? Go to bed – NOT! That’s when the nightmares, cold sweats, hot sweats, and racing thoughts come.

Fear grips you.

So, you get up. A brick wall greets you. It’s a wall of exhaustion, lack of motivation, and dread.

Flashbacks throughout the day haunt you, making all areas of life impossible. People and places once crucial in your life are reminders of what happened to you.

Now what? Shut down and go back to bed! And the cycle starts all over again.

You need something different. This is it!

The formula for healing from trauma:

A pointer, bilateral music, earbuds, an attuned therapist, a motivated individual

The steps to healing your mind and your body:

  1. Put on bilateral music. Instead of being in stereo, it will alternate from one ear to the other.  It helps you go deeper.
  2. Sit across from a therapist with a pointer in his or her hands.
  3. Bring up an issue.
  4. Feel it in your body.
  5. Let the therapist help you find an eye angle where you feel it most.
  6. Look at the pointer and follow your thoughts and sensations.
  7. Notice the intensity of your reactions decrease.
  8. Live again!

 I will even let you choose a colorful rock to put on the pointer to add to the experience:

146762993“I tried therapy! It didn’t last.”

That’s probably because you tried talk therapy. Let me explain. Differing schools of thought dominate the healing of emotional distress.

Option One: Access the Thinking Brain

Most therapy involves traditional talking back and forth with a therapist, which includes our conscious thoughts and words. It is effective because it helps one feel heard and understood.  It offers valuable learning and great coping skills.

Traditional talk therapy works with the left brain, otherwise known as the prefrontal cortex or the neocortex. This part is rational, logical, keeps track of time, and is verbal. It keeps us online.

But that’s not where trauma is stored. Trauma is in the middle brain – the subcortex. The subcortex is NOT rational, does NOT keep track of time, and is NOT verbal. It holds our emotions, deep hurts, and traumas. It does not talk. It reacts.

What is the answer, then?

Option Two: Mind-Body therapy.

It accesses:

1) The Middle Brain, or Feeling Brain, where emotions, trauma, and tough experiences are stored. It’s also where we find our creativity.

2) The Brainstem, or Lizard Brain, which affects all the autonomic systems in the body.

1611452602So, what is Brainspotting?

BRAINSPOTTING is Mind-Body Therapy.

“Where you look affects how you feel.” 
– David Grand, founder of Brainspotting

Brainspotting heals trauma by directing a person’s eyes to a specific point in their field of vision. The retinal nerve (the nerve leading from the eyes into the feeling part of the brain) developed at the same time as the part of the brain where trauma is stored, allowing access to both the trauma and the body, which reacts to trauma.

Anyone who has tightened up or felt butterflies in their stomach in reaction to anxiety or sadness has experienced it. The brain affects the body, and the body affects the brain.

The eyes truly are the windows to the soul. They locate the trauma, and the brain heals the whole self, making life bearable again.

You have nothing to lose!

This is where I come in. I am an experienced Certified Brainspotting Therapist who has personally witnessed extraordinary results for all walks of life.

I’ve seen…

  • …individuals with childhood trauma forgive their younger self for allowing trauma to happen. They learned to love themselves again.
  • …First Responders overcome horrible sights, sounds, and smells, allowing them to heal their marriages and families and function fully at work again.
  • …suicidal individuals arrive at a place of growth so they can live their lives joyfully and fully.
  • …those who grieve reconstruct their lives and return to the enjoyment of memories of their loved one(s) without falling apart.
  • …victims of assault who are given the gift of living and moving about without fear anymore, going places and doing things they previously avoided.

Now it’s your turn. What is keeping you from living to your highest potential? Give Brainspotting a chance.  Your brain has the ability to heal you. You can thrive and grow as your trauma becomes like a distant memory, no longer triggering your emotions and your body.

Come heal today.  Stop the crazy cycle and signs of trauma. Live your life.  Be vibrant again.