2019
An aging film director suffering from chronic illness and writer's block reflects on his life.
113 min
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In this video, Peter Levine will share how he helped uncover an incomplete traumatic response that was stuck in the body.
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Your pain has a story to tell. Your trauma has a story to tell. If you fail to hear it, it may stick around and continue poking you like a child. JournalSpeak gives your pain and trauma a safe and effective way to rise, allowing your pain to tell its story and then gently take leave.
Speaker, author and psychotherapist Nicole Sachs sat in with the Heal Squad to discuss her journey through extreme chronic pain - and a condition doctor’s said was hopeless.
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Claudia Black speaks to the faulty beliefs connected to issues of addiction and recovery and the relationship to unhealthy shame stemming from trauma.
A far-ranging examination of how the effects of addiction and trauma in the family can reverberate for generations. Trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child.
Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.
What if we replaced the word "addict" with: “A human being who suffered so much that he or she finds in drugs or some other behavior a temporary escape from that suffering"?
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There are legitimate uses of opioids in the treatment of physical pain. There is no legitimate use in the treatment of emotional pain.
Modern science and yoga agree: our present pain and suffering have their roots in our past pain, trauma, stress, loss, and illness.
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank lays out the low down on PTSD and how trauma can affect the brain. Plus, a look at how addiction can play into trauma and the different types of treatments used to help those afflicted.