Telling the World about Trauma--& Resolving it

On a Crusade at my Age? Yeah... Because it's Everywhere

At a stage in life when most are "retiring," I honestly find myself fired up to tell the world about trauma. I've suffered and seen others suffer so much from it, andit's only in the last 20 years that we've gained the knowledge and the tools to really heal it.

The bad news is--trauma is everywhere. Damaged institutions damage families which raise damaged children who grow up to damage more institutions.

So the main take-away here is: trauma cascades through both time and levels of society.

But There's Serious Good News Too

Yet we've got a single root cause for literally most of our troubles. And it operates similarly in organizations, ancestral and birth families, and even the inner family of your personality parts.

On all these levels, it isolates subconscious truths painfully alive in our social empathy systems from our conscious, "rational" behavior.

The corporate culture undercuts the mission statement. Ancestral secrets are excluded from family stories. "Do as I say, not as I do," we're told in our families of origin. And within our personality parts, too much old overwhelm is felt that cannot be spoken about or acknowledged.

So the 2nd big take-away here is: trauma scales.

It's a fractal, repeating a self similar pattern as we go from larger to smaller human groups.

And Because it Scales, We Can Expect Similar Tools to Work On All the Different Levels

And they do. And they are low tech, accessible, and inexpensive compared to mainstream health care, and to some extent even "do it yourself." So the world needs to know this.

The best, most compatible and effective pair of these low tech tools I've found are Family Constellations and Energy Psychology's body centered routines like EFT, EMDR, TAT, TWR and so on.

(Yeah... I know.... sorry for the alphabet soup...)

There are many other good tools, of course, but these have a peculiarly good fit to what happens on all the different levels.

We Can Look at Dysfunctions On Any Level as Entangled Wholes

They resemble this picture here. Whether it's personality parts, family members, or departments in a business, the outer rational part is tangled up by damaging overwhelms alive and unacknowledged still in the subconscious social empathy group.

So we use constellation methods to temporarily break out entangled parts, at which point we use energy psychology to give each one the different kind of help it actually needs.

A Gestalt Two or Three Chair Process--It's Really a Baby Constellation

In the picture above, for instance, you can see what was going on in a client I had. Her outer self was trying to live with a 6 year old inner part that was abused and is in freeze mode, and a 12 year old that raged.

A minimalist constellation anchored each part in a different chair. Their disputes emerged clearly in the dialogues. The 6 year old tapped on overwhelm, the 12 year old on the rage, and the outer person tapped on her anger at these two causing so much trouble in her daily life.

That's abbreviating a much longer process of course, but it's essentially how she got better. And we did a couple of larger constellations around ancestral stuff as well.