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we may never know exactly when or how this began, but if we acknowledge this little one, she will somehow know that we are listening to her.
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All of us develop the protections our implicit memories need to keep what are perceived to be worse dangers from us. ... Our initial work is ... about respectfully acknowledging that our people's system is acting wisely in this moment, no matter what it looks like on the outside. Holding this firmly in our own body, heart and mind is of inestimable benefit to those who come to us.
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A client's seemingly irrational, out-of-control presenting symptom is actually a sensible, orderly, cogent expression of the person's existing [experience] of self and world, not a 'disorder' or 'pathology
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the implicit is awakening in search of healing rather than trying to harm us
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How we speak about the awakening of these memories may influence the ferocity with which they arrive ... One therapist says this: 'even the gentlest sensory breeze can touch and awaken these old memories in our bodies. We are so tender and so available for healing.
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Through resonance and internalization of us as companions, our way of holding them may gradually become the way they are able to hold themselves.
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I have found that much that happens in supervision/consultation focuses on what needs to happen next. There can be a sense of the person under consideration becoming a static object to be analyzed, and then advice may be offered about how that person could/should be shaped in a certain (presumably healthier) way.
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neuroscience can be seen as offering metaphors that point in a general direction, but don't exactly match anyone's individual experience.
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let's ask our systems how they might let us know when we are taking that step into left-hemisphere dominance ...Often, the respectful gesture of simply pausing to pose this curiosity is enough. Our systems will respond as and when they can.
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