Vivian Ryu LCSW

What do you think? Should any of these brains be replaced with something else? 🧠

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the Embodied Experience in Clinical Practice - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute In clinical practice, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps traumatized clients regulate their arousal, and learn adaptive actions.

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We will subconsciously have chaos in our lives because it's familiar. Not comfortable. But familiar, until we heal our deeper wounds.

Loved this post from the month of November!! Do you want to effectively teach emotions to your students/clients/loved ones??? We need to start at the body signal level! Our body signals provide clues to our emotions. So if you skip over the body signals you are not providing the foundation needed for emotional understanding.
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Image Description: a pink tile with a graphic of a desk with books and a lamp, and text that reads: Trying to teach emotions before exploring body signals is like trying to read a book in the dark: You need light to grasp the words, just as you need body signals to comprehend emotions.

Here are some common signs of sensory overload
Read more here:
https://www.andnextcomesl.com/2021/09/signs-of-sensory-overload.html

Remembering that working through a client's trauma means working with their response patterns is crucial to positive growth.

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“You cannot rush the healing process. It takes approximately 20 years for the human brain to fully form and many years of careful guidance to help a child develop the social and emotional intelligence to navigate the complexities of adulthood. Our earliest years should prepare us for the inevitable challenges of life, such as working through conflicts with loved ones or coping with loss. However, when you have grown up with childhood trauma, you have to fill in the gaps left behind by neglect or abuse, and this takes time. I encourage you to recognize that reclaiming your life from childhood trauma requires a long-term commitment to yourself and to the healing process.”

From A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD
By Arielle Schwartz

Learning about fight, flight, fawn, and freeze can be helpful, but learning how these responses manifest in our particular bodies is where the magic really starts. When we understand how fight, flight, freeze, or fawn show up for us, we can develop an internal template to refer back to in moments where we are feeling a lot of (or beginning to shut down and feeling no emotion at all) that alerts us when it’s time take steps to soothe our and return to our window of tolerance.

No one has an innate ability to pause during a conflict and reflect “Gosh, I think I might be moving into a freeze response.” Instead, this realization tends to be something we recognize as we reflect on an experience later. Growing the capacity to check in with ourselves and notice, in the moment, when we are slipping into a response is one key to learning how to self-soothe, expand our , grow emotionally, and build .

That’s where my new comes in: it’s a tool specifically for helping us recognize when we are moving out of our window of tolerance (where we can listen, learn, and respond thoughtfully) and into a reaction state.

Like the Emotion Sensation Wheel, the Fight, Flight, & Freeze Embodied Wheel is a tool to prompt conversations and build awareness by showing how each of these responses *tends* to show up through physical sensations. It's not prescriptive- it's a conversation starter. It's meant to teach, to stir, and to prompt conversations that build awareness, connection, and experience through awareness. Download a digital copy of this art via patreon.com/lindsaybraman or through my website.