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Somatic Experiencing Info session Nov. 21, 2014, 5:15-7:30PM

On November 21, 2014 from 5:15-7:30, join Mary Scheib FNP SEP and this group for a playful, informative Somatic Experiencing educational and experiential session.  Learn how trauma and stress dis-regulates your nervous system and how Somatic Experiencing sets up the conditions for the system to re-regulate and heal itself.   Get a taste of simple, powerful practice…

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Nervous System needs rest

This NY Times article reminds me of how Somatic Experiencing ® (SE) shows us the natural movement of our nervous system from activation to deactivation all day long.  Just being in the here and now and becoming  aware of the “felt sense” of “charge and discharge helps our systems function more fully. In Somatic Experiencing…

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love notes–widening the view

I’ve been walking by this chain link fence in my neighborhood for sometime now, enjoying a changing message posted there: “you are here”  “I love you” “Hello again”.   By whom, I did not know. This one says, ” In all my life I never met anyone as beautiful as you.”  Each time I encounter…

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Video Interview with Peter Levine

In this interview by The Optimist, Peter  A Levine, founder of SE,  discusses how unexplained symptoms may arise from unresolved trauma and how everyone can heal from it. Books by Peter Levine referred to in the interview are: Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma.  1997. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA, 94712. Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for…

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An animal study: profound physiological effects of stress

Stress Reveals Connections Between the Brain and the Blood Steven Dubovsky, MD reviewing Heidt T et al. Nat Med 2014 Jul. Chronic unpredictable stress has profound physiologic effects. It is well known that chronic stress, especially if it is unpredictable, promotes inflammation. To learn more, researchers conducted a series of experiments in mice and 29…

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