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11/17/2025

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 — 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬.

Dissociation is one of the most common — and misunderstood — trauma responses.
It’s not “checking out on purpose.” It’s the nervous system protecting the mind when overwhelm becomes too much.
This cycle breaks down how survivors and clinicians can recognize dissociation and gently return to safety, connection, and integration. 💛

✨ 1. Notice the Dissociative Shift
Dissociation often shows up as spacing out, feeling far away, going numb, or losing time. Recognizing these early signs helps reduce shame and increases self-awareness.

✨ 2. Ground & Orient to Safety
Sensory grounding, breath, movement, and orienting techniques help reconnect to the present moment. Safety must be reestablished before processing anything deeper.

✨ 3. Reconnect with Parts or Emotions
Once grounded, it becomes possible to check in with the part or feeling that needed protection. This step is supported by parts-based trauma models (IFS, TIST) and allows for compassionate reconnection.

✨ 4. Integrate the Experience
Integration links sensations, emotions, and meaning. It strengthens presence, reduces fragmentation, and brings the system back into alignment. Over time, dissociation becomes less automatic and less overwhelming.

Healing dissociation isn’t about forcing presence — it’s about building safety, capacity, and connection from the inside out. 🌱
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11/15/2025

Trauma healing isn’t linear — it’s a nervous system journey.
Here’s a breakdown of how the body gradually rebuilds safety after trauma, based on Polyvagal Theory. Understanding these stages helps therapists, clients, and survivors recognize what’s happening internally and why healing takes time. 💛

✨ 1. Immobilization / Shutdown
This is the nervous system’s emergency brake. Numbness, collapse, and disconnection are protective responses — not failures. The body is trying to survive overwhelming stress.

✨ 2. Mobilization / Hyperarousal
Fight-or-flight becomes the dominant state. Anxiety, panic, hypervigilance, and restlessness show the system is scanning for danger.

✨ 3. Co-Regulation
Healing begins with safe connection. A grounded, attuned presence (like a therapist, partner, or friend) helps the system shift out of survival mode.

✨ 4. Self-Regulation
Through practice, skills like grounding, breathwork, and somatic awareness help the body settle from within. Clients begin to feel moments of control and stability.

✨ 5. Social Engagement
As safety increases, curiosity, presence, empathy, and creativity return. The ventral vagal system comes online, allowing deeper relational and emotional healing.

✨ 6. Resilient Flexibility
The long-term goal: a nervous system that can move between states without getting stuck. This is where true empowerment, stability, and post-traumatic growth emerge.

Understanding these stages helps reduce shame and supports compassion—for clients and for ourselves as clinicians. 💗
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11/12/2025

🧠 Therapist Burnout Prevention Roadmap

Feeling emotionally drained or disconnected from your work lately? You’re not alone.
Burnout doesn’t mean you’ve failed — it means you’ve been giving deeply.
Here’s a 5-step integrative roadmap to help you reconnect, recover, and sustain your passion for helping others. 🌿

1️⃣ Recognize Early Signs
Notice exhaustion, irritability, or compassion fatigue before they spiral. Awareness creates space for healing.

2️⃣ Reconnect with Purpose
Return to your “why.” Remember what drew you to this work — purpose renews energy more than rest alone.

3️⃣ Integrate Self-Care Practices
Blend mindfulness, somatic grounding, or emotional regulation into your daily routine — not just your sessions.

4️⃣ Seek Support & Supervision
No therapist should go it alone. Consultation, mentorship, or your own therapy can restore clarity and confidence.

5️⃣ Maintain Sustainable Balance
Set healthy boundaries, pace your caseload, and rest intentionally. Sustainability protects both you and your clients.

✨ Remember: Integration isn’t just for clients — it’s for you, too. The more grounded you are, the more grounded your work becomes.

💬 Comment “Safe” below, and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s free webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques — a beautiful way to reconnect with purpose and expand your therapeutic toolkit.

11/09/2025

Burnout doesn’t happen overnight — it builds quietly.
As therapists, you hold so much space for others that you often miss the signs your own nervous system is asking for care.

Here are 4 key signals to notice 👇

1️⃣ Emotional Exhaustion — Feeling drained after sessions or struggling to recover between clients. Your energy fades faster, even with rest.

2️⃣ Reduced Efficacy — Doubting your competence or feeling less impactful in your sessions. Work that once felt meaningful now feels heavy.

3️⃣ Compassion Fatigue — Empathy starts to feel like effort. Irritability, detachment, or emotional numbness may start to creep in.

4️⃣ Cynicism or Withdrawal — You catch yourself disconnecting from clients, colleagues, or your passion for the work.

✨ Burnout isn’t a weakness — it’s a sign you’ve been caring deeply without enough restoration. The first step is awareness. ✨

If this resonates, Comment “Safe” below ⬇️ and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s FREE webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques — a resource designed to help you reconnect, regulate, and renew your therapeutic energy.

🔖 Save this post to check in with yourself later.
💬 Share it with a colleague who might need this reminder today.

11/06/2025

🧠 5 Brain-Based Keys to Understanding Attachment

Attachment isn’t just emotional—it’s biological. When you view attachment styles through the lens of the nervous system, you gain powerful insight into your clients’ behaviors, struggles, and healing paths. Here's how:

1. It Starts in the Body
Attachment develops through early nervous system responses to caregivers. These patterns shape how we feel safety or threat in relationships.

2. Safety Builds Regulation
Consistent, attuned caregiving supports brain areas responsible for emotional regulation—laying the foundation for secure attachment.

3. Insecurity Is Adaptive
Avoidant, anxious, or disorganized attachment styles are survival strategies—not flaws. The brain does what it must to stay safe.

4. Therapy Rewires Connection
A co-regulating therapeutic relationship can offer new experiences of safety, helping reshape the nervous system’s response to connection.

5. Change Is Possible
Thanks to neuroplasticity, old patterns can shift. Repetition of safe, attuned connection helps build new neural pathways—and new ways of relating.

📩 Want to dive deeper into this brain-based approach to healing?
Comment “SAFE” and we’ll DM you a FREE webinar from Juliane Taylor Shore on experiential therapy techniques.

11/04/2025

The Sideways Journey: Rethinking Soul & Self in Therapy

Healing isn’t always a straight line. Sometimes the path bends, cracks, and reshapes us. This is the sideways journey — the soulful process of becoming through disruption, descent, encounter, and emergence.

✨ 1. Disruption — Something fractures the familiar. What once made sense begins to fall apart, inviting us into a deeper inquiry.
🌒 2. Descent — We move into the in-between, facing uncertainty, grief, or shadow. Here, growth begins in the dark.
🌿 3. Encounter — In this space, we meet what’s been hidden — the parts of self, the ancestral stories, the collective wounds.
🌞 4. Emergence — Integration doesn’t mean “back to normal.” It’s becoming more whole, carrying new wisdom into the world.

This cycle reminds us that healing isn’t about “fixing” — it’s about traveling with what is alive and unknown.

🧭 Whether you’re a therapist, healer, or on your own journey, may this visual help you honor the nonlinear beauty of transformation.

💫 Want to dive deeper into these ideas?
Comment “Soul” below and we’ll send you the link to The Way The Soul Travels — A Webinar with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé.

11/01/2025

🌿 Trauma impacts more than just the mind. 🌿
To truly support healing, you must work across multiple dimensions of the human experience.

Here are the 5 Dimensions of Healing every trauma-informed therapist should know:

✨ Physical — Trauma lives in the body. Somatic symptoms like tension, dysregulation, or fatigue are part of the story.

💖 Emotional — Suppressed or overwhelming emotions need safe expression and co-regulation.

🧠 Mental — Trauma alters thoughts, beliefs, and narratives. Healing brings clarity and new meaning.

🔋 Energetic — Clients may feel fragmented, drained, or "off." Balancing energy restores vitality.

🌌 Spiritual — Many trauma survivors disconnect from meaning or purpose. Reconnection supports wholeness.

Integrating all five allows for deeper, more embodied healing — and it can transform your clinical practice.

Want to explore how energy and neuroscience come together in therapy?

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10/28/2025

The 4 Pillars of Integrative Therapy 🧠💛
Every healing journey rests on these four essential pillars. Whether you’re working somatically, experientially, or cognitively, these foundations create deeper safety, connection, and transformation for clients.

Let’s explore each one 👇

1️⃣ Safety – Create Trust & Regulation
Before healing begins, safety is everything. Co-regulation and nervous system attunement lay the groundwork for clients to open up, explore, and heal.

2️⃣ Awareness – Observe Mind–Body Patterns
Awareness bridges the conscious and unconscious. Help clients notice sensations, thoughts, and emotional patterns with curiosity rather than judgment.

3️⃣ Processing – Transform Emotional Experience
This is where shifts happen. By safely accessing and processing emotion, clients can release what’s been held in the body—and make room for new meaning.

4️⃣ Integration – Embed New Narratives
Change becomes lasting when clients embody new beliefs and behaviors. Integration turns insight into transformation, anchoring healing in daily life.

✨ The more grounded these pillars are, the more expansive the healing becomes. ✨

If you’d like to explore this more deeply, Comment “Safe” below ⬇️ and we’ll send you a link to Jules Taylor Shore’s FREE webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques — a must-watch for integrative clinicians wanting to deepen their practice.

10/26/2025

Trauma rewires the brain for survival—but healing can rewire it for safety. That’s the power of neuroplasticity: the brain’s ability to change in response to new experiences, relationships, and regulation. In this post, we walk through a roadmap of how healing unfolds, step by step.

1. What is Neuroplasticity?
It’s the brain’s capacity to reorganize itself—forming new neural pathways based on repeated experiences. This is the science behind why therapy works.

2. After Trauma: The Survival Brain Takes Over
Trauma shifts the brain into protection mode. The amygdala becomes overactive, memory processing gets distorted, and the thinking brain shuts down. Clients often feel stuck in reactive or disconnected states.

3. The First Step: Regulation
Before healing, there must be safety. Through somatic work, grounding techniques, and attuned therapeutic presence, we help clients shift from survival states into regulation—where healing becomes possible.

4. Rewiring Through Repetition
Change doesn’t happen in one session. Repeatedly practicing regulated states helps the brain learn new responses. Mindfulness, breathwork, and secure relationships reinforce this change.

5. Integration Through Meaning & Connection
As the nervous system stabilizes, clients begin to make sense of their experiences. Memories become more organized, the sense of self returns, and the past no longer hijacks the present.

6. Growth & Transformation
With time and support, clients move beyond just surviving—they begin to thrive. This is post-traumatic growth: a renewed capacity for connection, resilience, and joy.

📩 Want to go deeper into this topic?
Comment “SAFE” below and we’ll DM you a free video from Juliane Taylor Shore that explores how to support trauma healing through the lens of brain science and safety.

10/23/2025

Therapy Wisdom is thrilled to be in the cloud forest of Costa Rica, launching our very first Yoga & Meditation Retreat.
Surrounded by mist, movement, and mindful hearts — this is where healing and presence meet. 💚

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