social baseline theory
Polyvagal Theory Maps Shamanic Worlds
If you're looking for a shortcut to thorough knowledge, you are in the right place.
Wound Transformation Survival Is Your Gift
Welcome back to the Deep Dive. Today we are going into, well, a really ambitious psychological
Collective Trauma and Collective Healing: The Social Nervous System
When a bomb explodes in a marketplace, the shrapnel wounds the people nearest to the blast. But the trauma — the imprint of terror, helplessness, and shattered safety — radiates outward in concentric circles.
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
Attachment theory, originally developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth to understand infant-caregiver bonds, has become one of the most empirically validated frameworks for understanding adult romantic relationships. The central insight is deceptively simple and profoundly consequential: the...
EMDR for Complex Trauma: Modified Protocols for Dissociation, Developmental Wounds, and the Fragmented Self
Category: Somatic Therapy / EMDR | Level: Jaguar (West) to Hummingbird (North) — Medicine Wheel
Neuroplasticity and Trauma Recovery: How the Brain Rewires After Devastation
For most of the twentieth century, neuroscience operated under a doctrine that now seems almost comically wrong: the adult brain was fixed. After a critical period in childhood, the brain was believed to be hardwired — its circuits set, its structure finalized, its capacity for change...