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12/23/2025

Creating psychological safety is foundational to effective trauma therapy, especially when working with nervous system dysregulation and chronic threat responses. In this training from Trauma Therapy Training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, we explore how the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model helps therapists establish safety not just cognitively, but somatically and relationally.

This conversation is part of NEW Therapist Courses at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, designed to support clinicians in developing moment-to-moment attunement, nervous system awareness, and embodied presence in the therapy room. Rather than relying solely on insight or interpretation, this approach emphasizes how safety is felt through the body and autonomic nervous system.

Drawing from polyvagal theory, somatic psychotherapy, and clinical experience, this session explores how therapists can recognize cues of safety and danger, repair ruptures, and support clients in developing internal and relational regulation. This training is especially relevant for clinicians working with trauma, attachment wounds, dissociation, and developmental trauma.

Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlYfiTmW2SY&feature=youtu.be
A Practical Guide to Safer Relief for Clients Suffering from Trauma Symptoms: Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: https://therapywisdom.com/treating-trauma-and-addiction-with-the-felt-sense-polyvagal-model/?utm_source=fborg

12/22/2025

Safety isn’t just a mindset — it’s a physiological experience.
When the nervous system feels safe, regulation becomes possible, connection deepens, and healing can unfold.

This is a core principle behind Somatic Therapy Training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, where therapists learn to work bottom-up with the body and nervous system, not just top-down with insight.

Here’s how nervous system safety is built — layer by layer:

1️⃣ Physical Safety

The body comes first.
Comfort, orientation, breath, and grounding signal to the nervous system that the present moment is safe enough.

2️⃣ Emotional Safety

Feelings are allowed without pressure to change them.
This layer supports affect tolerance, self-compassion, and emotional regulation.

3️⃣ Relational Safety

Safety is strengthened through connection.
Attunement, co-regulation, and healthy boundaries help the nervous system relax in relationship.

4️⃣ Internal Safety

A felt sense of self-trust emerges.
Clients develop agency, choice, and confidence in their internal experience.

✨ When we understand nervous system safety in this way, therapy becomes more effective — and more humane. This integrative, experiential lens is central to the work taught at the Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

💬 Comment “Safe” below, and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s FREE webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques — a powerful introduction to working with the nervous system in therapy.

12/17/2025

🧠 5 Steps to Integrate Mindfulness with Neuroscience

When mindfulness and brain science come together, therapy becomes even more effective. This is a core focus across Academy of Therapy Wisdom Trainings for Therapists, including trauma-informed and somatic approaches. Here’s how each step supports nervous system healing:

1. Calm the Nervous System
Mindfulness activates the parasympathetic system and reduces overactivation in the amygdala—helping clients shift out of fight-or-flight. This foundation is central in Trauma Therapy Training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

2. Strengthen Regulation
Repeated mindful attention boosts prefrontal cortex function, improving emotional regulation, impulse control, and grounded decision-making—skills emphasized in Academy of Therapy Wisdom Continuing Education Mental Health CEs.

3. Tune Into the Body
Interoceptive awareness (like breath or sensation tracking) helps clients recognize and respond to internal cues before they escalate, a key principle in Somatic Therapy Training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

4. Reduce Shame with Compassion
Mindful, non-judgmental observation softens self-criticism and allows space for healing—especially in clients with trauma or insecure attachment, a focus found throughout the NEW Therapist Courses at Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

5. Co-Regulate Through Presence
A therapist’s calm, attuned presence creates neurobiological safety. Your regulated nervous system helps shape theirs.

💬 Want a free resource to explore this further?
Comment “SAFE” and we’ll DM you Juliane Taylor Shore’s free video on experiential therapy techniques.

12/15/2025

🌿✨ As part of our Trauma Therapy Trainings at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, we’re hosting a conversation that speaks directly to the complexity of these times. ✨🌿

Join Gabor Maté and Akomolafe for a powerful dialogue on trauma, politics, and agency — and what it means to heal when the world itself feels unsettled. This is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and engage with healing beyond formulas.

🗓 Thursday, Dec 18, 2025
⏰ 9–10:30 AM PST | 5–6:30 PM GMT

👉 Comment “Soul” and we’ll send you the registration link.

12/11/2025

🌬️ 4 Layers of Anxiety in the Body & Mind

Anxiety isn’t “just in your head.” It unfolds through a series of body–brain responses that shape how we feel, react, and make meaning.
Understanding these layers helps us meet anxiety with compassion instead of criticism — for yourselves and your clients.

Here’s a breakdown of the four layers you’ll see in the graphic:

1️⃣ Trigger

A real or perceived threat activates the anxiety response.
Sometimes it’s obvious. Sometimes it’s subtle — a tone of voice, a memory, uncertainty, or a shift in the room.

2️⃣ Body Activation

The nervous system reacts first.
Heart rate increases, muscles tighten, breath shortens, or the stomach drops.
The body says “danger” long before the mind speaks.

3️⃣ Anxiety Narrative

This is when the story kicks in:
“What if this goes wrong?”
“What if I can’t handle it?”
Catastrophizing, looping thoughts, and predictive fear all stem from this layer.

4️⃣ Integration

This is where healing happens.
Grounding the body, slowing the breath, and gently reframing thoughts helps regulate the nervous system and restore a sense of safety.

✨ When we understand these layers, you can support clients in a more integrative, compassionate way — something we understand deeply at the Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

💬 Comment “Safe” below, and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s FREE webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques—a powerful resource for deepening your work with the nervous system and emotional regulation.

12/09/2025

🌍 “Maybe we focus too much inwards... the invitation here is to focus on what is around and not just what is within.” — Báyò Akómoláfé

We’re often taught to dig deeper inside ourselves…
But sometimes healing, meaning, and transformation ask us to look outward — to the world, to community, to the relationships and ecosystems that shape us.

What if the next step isn’t further inward, but a widening of perspective?

✨ Want to explore these ideas more deeply?
💬 Comment “Soul” and we’ll send you free access to Báyò Akómoláfé’s webinar: The Way The Soul Travels.

12/05/2025

🌿✨ When Healing Doesn’t Travel Straight: Trauma, Politics & Agency in Times of Trouble ✨🌿

We’re honored to present a live conversation between two powerful voices of healing and transformation — Gabor Maté and Bayo Akomolafe. They’ll unpack why familiar paths to “healing” often fall short — and how, in the cracks where systems fail, new forms of care, collective imagination and true agency can emerge.

This is for the seekers, the healers, the activists — those who sense that something deeper is needed in our world right now. 💛🌀

📅 Thursday, December 18th, 2025 - 9am - 10:30am PST

👉 Want to join the conversation and get the registration link? Comment “Soul” below and we’ll send it your way.

12/03/2025

💡 "Healing doesn’t happen by revisiting the trauma—it happens by teaching the nervous system that it is safe." – Dr. Janina Fisher 💡

For years, trauma therapy focused on retelling the story, but research shows that reliving the past doesn’t always heal it. True recovery happens when the nervous system learns safety, not just intellectually, but deeply, physically, and emotionally.

🧠 Why does this matter?
✔️ Talking about trauma can be important, but if the body is still in survival mode, words alone won’t bring relief.
✔️ Healing means working with the nervous system, not against it—using mindfulness, somatic work, and regulation techniques.
✔️ Safety isn’t just the absence of danger—it’s the presence of connection, regulation, and choice.

💬 Comment “Training” below and we’ll send you free access to her trauma-informed webinar — practical tools to support both survivors and therapists.

12/02/2025

How to Turn Mystical Experiences Into Real Therapeutic Change | Trauma-Informed Integration.

Mystical experiences can create profound insight — but without proper integration, those insights often fade or remain disconnected from everyday life. In this powerful conversation, we explore exactly how therapists can help clients translate transcendent, mystical, or psychedelic-like states into meaningful, lasting behavioral and emotional change.

Drawing from trauma-informed frameworks, attachment science, and integration methodology, this video breaks down:

✨ Why mystical experiences create sudden clarity
✨ Why clarity alone does not equal transformation
✨ The therapist’s role in helping clients translate insights into real-world action
✨ How internal parts work, somatic awareness, and emotional safety shape the integration process
✨ How to support clients who fear losing the transformative feelings they experienced
✨ Practical steps for turning spiritual or expanded-state insights into stable nervous-system shifts

Whether the mystical experience came from meditation, trauma work, spontaneous emergence, or psychedelic-adjacent states, therapists will learn how to bridge the gap between “I understand” and “I can live this way now.”

If you support trauma survivors, parts-based systems, or clients seeking deeper meaning and embodiment, this is essential learning.

The Theradelic Approach: Mastering Psychedelic Therapy for Profound Healing: https://therapywisdom.com/the-theradelic-approach-mastering-psychedelic-therapy-for-profound-healing/?utm_source=fborg

12/02/2025

When clients freeze or resist, therapists often feel stuck too. Here’s why. 👇

11/30/2025

Trauma survivors don’t resist you — they resist vulnerability.
Here’s what Janina Fisher says is actually happening. 👇

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