Deirdre Fay interviews Frank Corrigan, MD about healing Attachment Shock with Deep Brain Reorienting

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Résumé

TLDRThe conversation explores the concept of deep green reorienting in relation to attachment shock, emphasizing the significance of understanding brainstem-level responses to emotional stimuli. It discusses how slowing down these responses can help individuals recognize tension and emotional patterns established early in life, allowing for transformation and memory reconsolidation. This method aims to change the internal working models influencing relationships, ultimately facilitating personal growth and improved therapeutic outcomes for clients.

A retenir

  • 🧠 Understanding the brainstem's role is crucial for emotional responses.
  • 🔍 Slowing down emotional responses reveals underlying patterns.
  • ⚡ Attachment shock impacts early emotional development.
  • 🔗 Remapping attachment systems encourages healthier relationships.
  • 🚶‍♂️ Body awareness enhances emotional processing.
  • 📉 Memory reconsolidation allows healing from past trauma.
  • 🤔 Cognitive understanding isn't enough; body experience matters.
  • ✨ Change is possible at a deep physiological level.
  • 💬 Therapeutic approaches should focus on sequences of responses.
  • 😌 Bottom-up processing fosters trust and safety in therapy.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In this discussion, Frank emphasizes the significance of understanding attachment shock and how it relates to deep brain reorienting. He elaborates on the brainstem's role in orienting responses, stating that reactions to stimuli, like seeing an angry face, trigger a sequence of tension and emotional responses. By slowing down this sequence, individuals can identify patterns established early in life, leading to an opportunity for transformation at a physiological level, bypassing conventional cognitive processes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:11:27

    The conversation highlights the innate conflict between the desire for connection and defensive responses at the brainstem level. Frank illustrates this through a case study where a client struggles with conflictual feelings about seeking comfort. The approach emphasizes staying with the initial orienting phase without becoming overwhelmed by emotional responses, allowing for a remapping of attachment systems over time. This method promotes body awareness and a bottom-up processing approach, fostering a safer environment for individuals to engage with their feelings without dissociating.

Carte mentale

Vidéo Q&R

  • What is deep green reorienting?

    It refers to a therapeutic approach focused on understanding and modifying the brain's orienting responses to stimuli, particularly in the context of attachment shock.

  • How does the brainstem relate to emotional responses?

    The brainstem plays a crucial role in initial orienting responses to emotional stimuli, influencing how we react before conscious awareness.

  • What is attachment shock?

    Attachment shock refers to the developmental disruptions in attachment patterns and responses established early in life.

  • Why is it important to slow down our emotional responses?

    Slowing down responses allows us to identify and understand the sequence of our reactions, enabling change and healing at a deeper level.

  • What is the internal working model?

    It is a psychological framework that reflects the expectations and beliefs formed through early attachments that influence future relationships.

  • How can this understanding aid in therapy?

    Understanding these sequences can help therapists guide clients in reorienting their responses to overcome conflicts and negative patterns.

  • What does it mean to remap the attachment system?

    Remapping involves changing and reorganizing the internal attachment responses to foster healthier relationships.

  • What role does body awareness play in this process?

    Training individuals to stay connected with their body sensations can facilitate the processing of emotional experiences.

  • How does deep green reorienting differ from traditional trauma therapy?

    It emphasizes bottom-up processing and understanding of immediate bodily sensations rather than solely focusing on cognitive or narrative elements.

  • What is memory reconsolidation?

    It's the process of changing the storage of a memory after it has been recalled, allowing for healing from past traumas.

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    so Frank you know I'm thrilled to have
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    you come and I'm really looking forward
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    to being out really looking forward to
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    the opportunity to talk with you more
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    about deep green reorienting and have it
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    applies especially to attachment shook
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    mm-hmm I am so grateful because you know
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    I've known you all these years and
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    worked with you and learned so much for
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    you and this piece that you're doing
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    about attachment shock I think is not
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    being done anywhere anywhere and it's so
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    critical that people learn from you and
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    get this piece so let's talk about like
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    why you called it repairing reorienting
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    and then let's see if we can just touch
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    on some of the specifics the deep drain
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    reorienting part of it this is a bit
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    more difficult to explain but the drain
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    part of it is easy it's based on the
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    brain stem I'm really interested in the
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    functioning of the orienting responses
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    at the brainstem level and often people
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    look at orienting in relation to upper
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    brain levels and my site the key
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    components in the superior colliculi of
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    the meta plane so what does that mean to
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    those of us who don't know right yeah
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    well the basic response for example to
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    official stimulus is the superior
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    colliculi and in the midbrain the basic
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    response starts there so if we see a
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    face that looks angry for example we
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    register that at the level of the
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    superior colliculi and then we get the
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    affective response coming from the
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    periaqueductal gray also in the midbrain
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    which is just nearby and what I find is
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    that between the orienting to the
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    stimulus
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    and the effective response there's often
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    a very subtle tension and the muscles of
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    the face neck shoulders and been able to
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    pick up that tension allows us to
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    develop an awareness of the sequence
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    that happens if we see an angry face we
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    find what tension happens in response to
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    that and then the effective response
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    perhaps fear comes and that's the next
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    component of the sequence so we've got
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    the orienting then attention and then
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    the effect and I've been finding that
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    looking at that sequence even although
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    it happens physiologically in
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    milliseconds been able to slow it right
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    down allows us to see patterns that have
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    been established sometimes very very
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    early in life so what I've been learning
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    from you and see if I'm hearing this
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    correctly is that what that when when
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    we're reactive now in our current life
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    everything is happening so quickly that
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    we can't parse out these many different
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    pieces but what you've discovered is
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    that in the brain if we slow it down
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    enough each piece can be literally but
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    you call sequence our way through it and
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    then we can actually that's if we
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    transform it at that level we're
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    transforming it below the the cognate
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    cognitive understanding and below the
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    narrative explanation of it is that
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    right that's correct
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    yeah and because we're getting this
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    sequence that's been established very
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    readily we get into a response that
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    underlies many many different
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    interactions for example and the
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    relational sense so if we always have a
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    fear response to
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    very looking angry then they will almost
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    always be a particular sequence as we
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    orient to it we get a certain subtle
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    tension in the neck and then we get the
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    affective response and we're doing you
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    with that until till we're really slowed
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    it down and get it an ultra slow motion
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    and pick up the components of it
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    so a little bit how I'm putting it
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    together over my time of working with
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    you is that the that when Bobby talks
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    about the internal working model that's
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    imprinted so early and that this is
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    where this attachment shock that in it's
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    imprinted deep in the brain stem yes or
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    we can't talk our way through it we
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    can't explain our way through it we have
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    to go in and not feel necessarily the
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    emotions although the emotions may arise
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    but even before that to sense how the
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    imprint was laid down so that we can
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    then by trusting the brains natural
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    ability to reorganize is to just move
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    through in a different way instead of
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    getting stuck in the imprint if then is
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    able to move is that right that's
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    correct as soon as we identify the
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    sequence it becomes open to change and I
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    think that it is opening to memory
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    reconsolidation that when we identify
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    the sequence we D consolidate that deep
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    brain sequence and we look at it in a
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    way that allows us to reorient to it and
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    not then leads to reconsolidation of
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    that memory so that the sequence clears
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    and doesn't cause us to stress in the
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    future oh it's so exciting because
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    that's been my experience and I know
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    that as we've talked about it over the
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    time that it really is this change of
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    that at a really I was going to say a
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    meta-level but it's more like a
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    I I don't know what it is in that it's
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    the brainstem that's what you're trying
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    to say is that deep level that just
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    reorganize so and if I could just add
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    the what doesn't come from the research
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    so far is that there is an innate
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    connection system that is an innate
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    approach system that does brainstem
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    level which is very close to the
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    defensive response system also their
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    alarm system so it means that people can
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    have a conflict at the brainstem level
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    if they've been ready to reach out to
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    connect with somebody utilizing that
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    innate connection system and then those
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    for example an angry response so they
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    get into a defensive response then
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    almost simultaneously so it means that
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    you have a conflict at a brain stem
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    level that by the time it gets up to
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    consciousness may make no sense at all
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    so it's certainly when you really slow
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    it down and look at it from the
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    perspective of the brainstem anatomy and
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    physiology that you can see the
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    conflicted sequences at that level and
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    data liza reorienting then to the
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    conflict so let me see that
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    if I think about a recent experience I
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    had when I was working with a client is
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    that she really wanted has learned that
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    underneath her conflictual experience
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    she really wants comfort and as she's
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    tried to reach out for comfort and
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    actually has been making good strides of
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    that what's also happening is all the
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    way she pushes away love and comfort and
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    care the affiliative system so she
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    pushes that away and she gets caught in
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    that bind and and what you're saying is
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    that by slowing it down and watching
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    that training her to not dissociate but
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    just stay right in that moment and just
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    let it just shift a little a little at a
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    time
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    Ginn's to remap itself which is from
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    Agee's word for changing the attachment
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    system yeah and because the sequence
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    goes from orienting to orient intention
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    to effect well if we stay with the
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    orienting the orient intention we don't
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    tend to get overwhelmed by the effect
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    because mostly another therapist we're
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    looking at the effect we're looking at
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    what is immediately distressing what
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    makes us personally uncomfortable and
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    that can lead to an intensification and
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    an overwhelm for not resourced enough
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    time or or they get more reactive so if
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    we stay instead with the first part of
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    the sequence then it's possible to go
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    into the effect without associating or
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    becoming dysregulated
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    through being more reactive and not I
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    think is a major strength of this
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    approach I agree I think the other thing
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    that has been helpful is training people
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    to slow down enter that body state so
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    they can shift out of thinking about it
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    and actually training themselves to be
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    within trust that bottom-up processing
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    which most people I think don't trust
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    and I think if we're starting from an
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    experience that's distressing if people
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    have had very adverse experiences early
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    in life then the tendency would be to be
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    disembodied to traditional Xia trauma
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    but because we start with orienting to a
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    trial for example to the angry face to
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    use the example from earlier because we
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    are starting with the orienting it is
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    safer to be in the body to be aware of
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    the tension that comes from not
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    orienting before the effect comes in
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    see how beautifully you articulate it
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    Frank
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    thank you good Christians help well
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    Frank I am thrilled that you're coming
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    and that people will have a chance to
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    explore this more in-depth and to find
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    out more about the work that you're
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    doing and how they can both change
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    themselves and work with their clients
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    to change
Tags
  • deep green reorienting
  • attachment shock
  • brainstem
  • emotional responses
  • orienting responses
  • memory reconsolidation
  • internal working model
  • therapy
  • body awareness
  • transformation