Using Imagination to Heal When The Body Keeps the Score
In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma ,
Bessel Van der Kolk describes the way imagination is an important ingredient in the recipe for healing from trauma:
“Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities”
After experiencing trauma, fragments of original memory need to be re-‐integrated through narrative, either verbal or nonverbal. In creating narrative, we make meaning, which is powerful step in trauma recovery.
To be a coping and healing process, making meaning from our traumatic experiences must involve more than the way we mentally construct our thinking and the way we are evaluating “things” or developing an understanding of the way the world works: it is also about the meaning of relationships in one’s life. This element is particularly important to heal from trauma that involves betrayal.
Questions like, “why me?” “why now?” “What can I learn from the event?” are examples of the process undertaken in the search for meaning.
The traumatic event formed into narrative gains a place as part of the rest of life, as opposed to being the focus of life.
Dr. Jodi Peary
Intuitive Psychologist, Hypnotherapist, Former Lawyer.
Dr. Jodi Peary guides individuals through significant transitions such as divorce, divorce recovery, after losses due to the death of loved ones, changes in one's own health, and with coming to terms with new life stages. Combining proven research-based psychological strategies alongside more intuitive teachings and hypnotherapy, I facilitate your deeper connection with yourself, arming you with the self-awareness needed to improve your health and to help you discover a more meaningful relationship with yourself and others. My workshops and coaching sessions will lead you to consciously align your mind, heart, emotions, soul, and your body. In alignment you will experience mental, physical and emotional well being.
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