The High/Low Brainspotting setup Rationale Many people I work with in Brainspotting sessions display high levels of charge - be it emotional and/or somatic. When activation like this becomes fixated in a flight, fight, or freeze response it can be difficult to tritate...
The word from go was intense. She arrived with a chaotic personal and professional history. I didn’t give her the questionnaire but as I listened, she had hit 4 on the ACE score within 20 minutes - a critical level in terms of future health risks. ACE or Adverse...
She often had lots of say about what was going on in many parts of her life - her work, her children, her husband, her large circle of friends, her ageing parents, her many pastime activities. A full life brimming. And then she would burst into tears about something,...
She finally found the courage to broach the subject. She admitted she had a problem with alcohol. There. She said it. The subject was now on the table. After all the work we had done there had been no indication, no warning sign, not a flutter that this might be...
In January 2021 Camille Kouchner - daughter of the charismatic founder of Medecins sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) Bernard Kouchner who later went on to became Minister for Health - published her book La Familia Grande. In it she told the story of how...
The secret life of the high performer is often dominated by the holy grail of certainty. When certainty rules, success will emerge as the natural birth child of a given desire. All effort, all energy is concentrated on developing and establishing certainty - inside...
There is the story of Hiroo Onoda, one of only 4 Japanese soldiers who survived the American invasion of Lubang Island in the Philippines in February 1945. Hiroo Onoda was an intelligence officer who was ordered not to surrender and not to take his life. So he...
He introduced himself as someone with disorganised attachment. He said it several times like he needed to show he knew who he was. I listened but also wondered. Words can be windows which open out onto the world. But words can also be blinkers leading us into narrower...
After months of emotional turbulence, life at home and at work finally began to settle. Situations in the past which would have triggered Robert’s anxiety states fell away like water off a duck’s back. He was surprised to connect to an increasing sense of tranquility...
The High/Low Brainspotting setup Rationale Many people I work with in Brainspotting sessions display high levels of charge - be it emotional and/or somatic. When activation like this becomes fixated in a flight, fight, or freeze response it can be difficult to tritate...
The word from go was intense. She arrived with a chaotic personal and professional history. I didn’t give her the questionnaire but as I listened, she had hit 4 on the ACE score within 20 minutes - a critical level in terms of future health risks. ACE or Adverse...
She often had lots of say about what was going on in many parts of her life - her work, her children, her husband, her large circle of friends, her ageing parents, her many pastime activities. A full life brimming. And then she would burst into tears about something,...