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Somatic Therapy Flashcards

1
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What does somatic mean?

A

Body

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What is somatic therapy ?

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Is a body-based approach to addressing mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.

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R.a.I.n. ?

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Recognise
Allow
Investigate
Nurture

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What are somatic resources?

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Something the client can use as a way of comfort or safety.

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S.I.B.A.M. ?

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Sensation
Image
Behaviours
Affect
Meaning

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Feedback loop?

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Painful patterns that are interconnected and noticeable through SIBAM, when triggered.

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Window of tolerance?

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The amount a person can experience something.

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What is sexual abuse ?

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Any sexual act or experience which is forced upon a person or which occurs as a result of coercion.

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The 4 wounds of sexual abuse?

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Sense of betrayal
Sense of helplessness
Sense of powerlessness
Sexual confusion

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What does somatic therapy do?

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Brings present moment resources to trapped survival energy, and then helps it to release.

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Macronutrients are ?

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Carbohydrates
Protein
Fats

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12
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Somatic intervention for sexual abuse?

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Non-sexual touch
Reclamation of power through practice of choice and boundaries

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Trauma can cause hyper-vigilance and sleep disturbances

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Nightmares heighten the stress response and increase cortisol secretion which can affect mood, memory, and performance

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After a nightmare people should?

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Stroke a pet
Splash cold water on face
Turn lights on hey out of bed and drink water

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Safe sanctuary setting

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Make sure sleep space has nothing that’s triggering
Create a relaxing bedtime
Anticipate challenges
Create smart goals
Have uplifting items relating to the here and now rather then the past

Consider positioning of bed , room temp, blankets

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Sliver of memory is?

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Pausing and recognising what the body wants to do in order to create distance with RAIN

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Sexual abuse experiment

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Competent protector = can you think of a friend or relative who is no bs type?

What happens if you imagine them by your side ?

What happens in the body when you give the younger you a protector?

If they don’t have access to a person they can choose an archetype

18
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Corrective experience

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The goal is not to change the memory of what happened, the goal is to let your mind and body play out alternatives scenarios, imagining events the way you would have liked them to unfold. Creating an alternative in the body.

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Present moment body time

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How we use our bodies reflects our state of mind.

SIBAM carries additional information-beyond what the client is telling us.

20
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Somatic therapy goals?

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Becoming aware of old, automatic behaviours

Experimenting with alternatives

Practicing ways to NEE effective actions

21
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Top down bottom up

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Understanding the problem
Sensation of the problem
Corrective experiment with sensation
New understanding of the problem

22
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What is body time ?

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Slowing way down. Approx 7x slower then talk therapy

23
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What is achieving a resource?

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Staying in the corrective experience longer through investigating the SIBAM of ex: safety, empowerment

24
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Experiment examples:

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Saying yes to pleasure in eco therapy
Animal
Posturing
Nourishing statements “how does it feel when you say, I belong here”.

25
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Integrate the shift

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Right hemisphere of the brain is the body work

Left side of the brain is the integration and takeaways

26
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Chronic pain cycle

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Stresses > causes blood flow to shift from frontal lobe (conscious way of thinking) into
> limbic system (emotional, reactive fight or flight) part of the brain - amygdala & ANS
The affect of the shift in blood flow is:

-Muscles
-Blood flow
-Nervous system
-Heart
-Gastrointestinal system
-Genito-urinary system
Feeling:

Pain almost anywhere
Tingling
Numbness
Burning
IBS & bladder symptoms
Palpitations
Rapid heart rate
Headaches
>pain & learning of nervous system returns/creates stresses.
And the cycle repeats.

The brain can learn to feel pain even without structural or tissue damage

27
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What does the sympathetic nervous system consist of?

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Exists in the middle part of the spinal cord (thoracic and lumbar)
Control heart and breath

28
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The parasympathetic nervous system

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Vagas nerve is main component of para.
It’s a cranial nerve that come from the brain and exits the skull wondering through the body.
80% of of information travels from ten body to the brain, rather then the other way around.

29
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Ventral Vagas & Dorsal Vagas

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Is divided into two starting from the diaphragm.

Ventral up
Dorsal down

Ventral creates homeostasis and Dorsal brings healthy digestion

30
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Dorsal Vagas in survival

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In survival response the dorsal moves the body into conservation mode: slowing the heart rate, impacting breathing, disturbing digestion, creating a sense of disconnection, numbing & collapse.
This creates a sense of going through the motions without being present

31
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What is neuroception ?

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To describe the way our nervous system responds to cues of safety and danger.

32
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The meaning our nervous system makes (neuroception)

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Drives the creation of the narrative that shapes our daily lives.

Meaning our body decides %80 of how we see the world and does so long before we even know it.

The largest nerve in the body is the vagus nerve and connects to all our organs, brain and into our face.

Meaning simply smiling can change the way we perceive our environment.

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The Vagus nerve

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The largest nerve in the body is the vagus nerve and connects to all our organs, brain and into our face.

Meaning simply smiling can change the way we perceive our environment.

34
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What does the central nervous system consist of?
And what is it responsible for?

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Brian & spinal cord

The brain is involved in awareness, movement, sensation, thoughts, speech and memory 

The spinal cord carries messages back and forth between the brain and the peripheral nerve, controlling movement, 

35
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What does the peripheral nervous system do?

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Communication lines between the central nervous system and the rest of the body

36
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Enteric nervous system

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Governs the gastrointestinal track and essential for digestive functions. 

37
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What is a autonomic nervous systems main functions ?

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Personal surveillance system

Regulates heart rate, immune, respiratory and digestion

Helps experience love, feelings of connection & belonging

38
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Low tone Dorsal Vagal is

A

Rejuvenate, rest and digest

39
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High tone Doral vagal is ?

A

Immobilisation
Shut down
Takes us out of connection

Extreme response: play does
Less extreme: disconnection day dreaming, depression

40
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Polyvagal Ladder

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Top- Ventral vagal =takes us into connection, co-regulation, engagement.

Promotes health growth and restoration

Middle-sympathetic nervous system
Two branches > response to danger fight or flight
Or movement like dance or cleaning

Bottom> Dorsal vagal
Two branches > low tone =rest, digest , rejuvenate
Or high tone dorsal
Shut down, disconnect , freeze, numb

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