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TRAUMA RESILENCE GROUP STARTS 3/9/16

Trauma Resilience Group in San Francisco’s Noe Valley: Sustainable Caring for Self & Others with Mary Scheib NP Somatic Experiencing, Trauma Resolution Practitioner 6 Wednesday evenings, March 9 through April 13, 2016, 6:30-830PM CONTINUING EDUCATION 10.5 units avaialble for: RN’s, (CABRN & ANCC certified) & Social Workers (ASWB) : $30 onsite. Full credit only.* Contact…

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TRAUMA RESILIENCE IN 2016

TRAUMA RESILIENCE  IN 2016 Is the New Year a time when you feel the impulse to start fresh and commit to change in your life? Did you know that trauma and traumatic stress can keep us stuck? Ready to recover  your resilience–the flux, flow and power of your own life energy? CONTACT ME NOW to…

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Life…Happens in the Body.

Of late, I often feel overwhemed by social media.  And two friends in the last day mentioned they’ve chosen pretty much to stay off of it. In this frame of mind, I was surprised and moved reading this sign in front of Green Apple Books today.  Oh yeah–like Somatic Experiencing, life force is here, right…

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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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Trauma is Intergenerational

Animal and human studies show trauma is passed from mother to fetus.  These early memories of trauma are implicit or non-conscious.  We access them through the body memory of sensation in Somatic Experiencing.  Other studies show that access the memory whether implicit or explicit is a slightly unstable event where learning  and change in the nervous system…

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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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Links: Somatic Experiencing & Trauma Healing

  Somatic Experiencing ® on the Web, founder Peter A Levine PhD.  Developmental Trauma–Neuro-affective Relational Model. Laurence Heller, PhD. The ACE Study: NIH and Kaiser study of Adverse experience in childhood and chronic illness in adults.

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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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