Frontiers Friday #46. Trauma (Part III)
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #46. Trauma (Part III)
Here's the final 5 recommendations on trauma.
If you've missed the previous two, here it is:
Watch: Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds
Creativity can play a vital role in healing. Here's an older TED video on this topic of using art as a therapeutic means.
(More on invisible wounds).
Watch: Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Another TED talk. A pediatrician talks about her experience of what looked like ADHD when it was actually the effects of trauma.
Like others recommendations before, many cite the research of the Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) studies. (For more on ACE, see )
Web-Read: How To Recover When The World Breaks You
I didn't know what this Japanese art form was called until I read this piece by prolific writer Ryan Holiday.
"There is a form of Japanese art called Kintsugi, which dates back to the 15th century. In it, masters repair broken plates and cups and bowls, but instead of simply fixing them back to their original state, they make them better. The broken pieces are not glued together, but instead fused with a special lacquer mixed with gold or silver. The legend is that the art form was created after a broken tea bowl was sent to China for repairs. But the returned bowl was ugly — the same bowl as before, but cracked. Kintsugi was invented as a way to turn the scars of a break into something beautiful."
Workbook: One Small Step
For some reason, I'm a bit embarrassed to recommend this therapy workbook. Maybe because it feels so foreign to me now. But I recalled in my starting years, I needed stimulation of ideas of what's creatively possible to explore working with people moving beyond the impact of trauma. (I just saw the dating of my copy of this book, Aug 2008. Wow).
Yvonne Dolan offers a smorgasbord of ideas in this workbook.
Words Worth Contemplating:
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in."
~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem.
(Click here to listen to the song)
Reflection:
The sharing of our brokenness brings people together more than the sharing of our successes.
Maybe that's "how the light gets in."
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