Trauma Integration

Trauma is not the experience itself- it’s the separation of wholeness.

Trauma jolts us from the safety of our wholeness. Healing is coming back to wholeness through the broken places. 

When we experience trauma, the body automatically responds to facilitate protection. Trauma occurs when our nervous system becomes overwhelmed. Trauma is not necessarily the event itself, but rather  the learned pattern inside the nervous system. Keep in mind that our nervous system doesn’t have preference as to how we survive. We don’t choose how we survive. It is an automatic response and is guided by the innate desire for balance. If we are unable to fight or flee, we begin to conserve energy and disconnect as a way to quickly move towards balance. When we disconnect, we can become stuck and away from our state of balance and connection. When we are stuck and disconnected-we may experience grief, anxiety, depression, fear, psychosis, compulsive behaviors.  In this separation and imbalance-we reach for things to bridge the gap (addiction).  Our body is seeking balance. In trauma integration and nervous system healing we engage the nervous system and allow it to find the way back to homeostasis without maladaptive behaviors.

Thus, in healing we spend time remembering, feeling and knowing on a cellular level the safety that is within us. When we have access to that safety and expand our resourcing-everything else will begin to follow. 

The primary focus of our work is to attune to the person right in front of us and begin a slow and intentional return to wholeness. We are eclectic in our approach and utilize different modalities, however a strong focus is towards healing the nervous system.