Guided Imagery & Parenting with ACEs: Chat with Belleruth Naparstek
"Trauma isn't even stored in the parts of the brain where language can access it. Instead it's been cached as frozen, primitive, pre-language experience - sensation, perception, emotion, images and motor reactivity - in the survival-based structures of the brain. What does help are tools that target the affected parts of the brain."
Belleruth Naparstek
Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek is the creator of the popular Health Journeys guided imagery audio series. Her first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery (Warner) is a widely used primer on imagery and healing. Her latest book, Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Bantam Dell), is about guided imagery and post-traumatic stress.
"Guided imagery is an especially portable, private, user-friendly, accessible intervention, available 24/7 at 2 pm or 2 am? That's the beauty of it for somebody subject to panic attacks or extreme distress at unpredictable times... you put it on your phone or MP3 player, and it travels with you."
Belleruth Naparstek
Online Chat with Belleruth Naparstek
- When: Dec. 12th (10 AM / 1 PM EST
- Where: ACEs Connection (live, messaging format)
- Topics to be Covered:
- Isn't Trauma Too Hard for Something as Easy Guided Imagery?
- Challenges, Techniques & Tools Parents with Parents with Post-Traumatic Stress/Parenting with ACEs Can Use
- Your Questions
How to Attend Online Chats:
- Members of ACEs Connection: Go here to Chats (top of home page)..
- Not a Member? Join ACEs Connection at least one day before chat (it's free to join) and attend chat (link here). Question? Cissy White, cwhiteaces@gmail.com
- NOTE: We've moved chats from the Parenting with ACEs Community to the home site to increase conversation between parents, professionals and all members of ACEs Connection.
Where to Learn More about Belleruth Naparstek's Work:
Webinars / 2 Free Webinars
- The first talk is called Downloading Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress: Digitally Delivered, Evidence-Based Tools for Self-Administered Healing.
- The second webinar is called Lessons Learned from Treating PTS: Soldiers Teach Therapists about Do's, Don't's & Understanding Military Culture
Writing
You Tube
- Guided Imagery for Soldiers with PTSD, NICABM
- Guided Imagery for Stress Reduction / Sample
- Survivors of Trauma & How They Heal, NICABM
Belleruth Naparstek / The Four Threads Effective Approaches Share:
1.They first and foremost find ways to re-regulate the nervous system.
2. They destigmatize and normalize the experience by explaining PTS as the somatic and neurophysiologic condition it is.
3. They offer simple, self-administer-able tools that empower the end-user and confer a sense of mastery and control.
4. The interventions are cast as training in skill sets, not the healing of pathology..
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