Trauma is Really Strange

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I think this book might be even better than the Trauma is Really Strange book... it really challenges you to re-examine your relationship with chronic pain. Using simple comics, concise explanations and a healthy dose of wit, this clever book not only explains how trauma affects our body and brain, but more importantly, outlines how to support our body's innate ability to discharge and recover from trauma. Richmond Heath It would seem impossible that the weighty subject of trauma could be explored so thoroughly in a comic book format. Yet this pairing of text and image so perfectly balances academic rigor, whimsical design, and engaging little narratives. The first hour is an interactive talk on trauma. It is suitable for people affected by trauma or therapists working with trauma. Very insightful, well researched, cleverly illustrated and written in a way that helps explain a complex, often elusive idea in relatively simple terms. I've suffered from 'regional-complex-pain-syndrome' for three years now, a diagnosis that seems super intense but is really just the name for conditions the specialists don't quite know what to do with. I've been to nerve specialists, doctors, cranial osteopaths, physios - you name it who have tried to put a name to what I'm experiencing, they don't understand why I have pain but noone's made an effort to even explain how it happens or what pain really is.

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I was a rubbish mechanical engineer in Glasgow and IT systems analyst in the City – I hated office work. I v olunteered with people with learning difficulties when I first moved to London – this was a revelation and led to a big career change. I was like a kid in a sweet shop in my late twenties. There were so many exciting courses and models to study. Yoga, led to massage, led to shiatsu, led to zen meditation, led to cranial work.

The book examines what happens to the brain and body when trauma happens. We can go into a disassoiated state where we feel disconnected from our bodies. This happens in PTSD as well as other trauma. Rather than dwell on the causes or the past, the book offers techniques that are used to get patients through it. Using the acronym OMG (for Orient, Move, Ground), we learn how reconnecting with the present and our bodies can help slowly overcome trauma. It's filled with footnotes with related research for those desiring further study. Una novela gráfica distinta sobre temas interesantes. En este caso, el trauma o los episodios traumáticos, que en otras palabras pueden ser todo aquello que nos genere estrés; y el estrés puede ser muchas cosas: desde una situación de peligro hasta sentir frío. Por eso, ante tanta amplitud de definiciones, está bueno que alguien trate de explicar de qué se trata todo esto, y mejor aún si se hace de una forma tan didáctica con en este caso.

Trauma is Really Strange: Haines, Steve, Standing, Sophie

With great erudition and wit Steve manages to condense philosophical thought, neurological research and psychological thinking into a fabulous tool for re-conceptualising are experience of this bane of modern life – anxiety. Psychoanalysts and others working with people experiencing anxiety will benefit from reflecting on this book and sharing it with their patients.‘

Appreciating the hidden stories and protective reflexes working hard to protect you can transformative for many people. It is possible to learn to self regulate intense feelings. Feeling is hard. But if you can’t feel, it is very hard to heal. Using simple comics, concise explanations and a healthy dose of wit, this clever book not only explains how trauma affects our body and brain, but more importantly, outlines how to support our body's innate ability to discharge and recover from trauma. My worldview has been deeply informed by the AIDs epidemic and the activism that emerged in the 80’s and 90’s and continues to this day. In the early days of AIDs dynamics around health advocacy and alternative medicine were life and death realities. Another big shift in me occurred at this time, from hopeful versions of eastern philosophy and energy models, to seeking an evidence base and asking ‘Can you prove that?’ I’ve been struggling to get through the novel All’s Well by Mona Awad, which centers on a protagonist with chronic pain. I haven’t been sure how to feel about the characterization of this experience, so I turned to this little comic I bought years ago for some facts. Steve, once again in talking head mode, thus diagrammatically takes us through the myriad different forms that trauma can take and what responses we can expect. As before, it's the incredible degree of symbolism and visual metaphor that Sophie puts into every single illustration which transform this from merely being a succinct and extremely clear explanation of the facts to a fun filled pamphlet of pictorial educational enablement. I think the beauty of this and their previous work is they manage to deal with such complex topics in a manner that would be perfectly digestible and understandable even for primary school kids without remotely compromising on the scientific facts. Brilliant!

Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines (2015-12-21)

Listen to this podcast to explore what you can do change your anxiety experience and how you can support others to find agency and choice in meeting their anxiety. The first hour is an interactive talk on anxiety based on webinar given by Steve Haines – author of Anxiety is Really Strange, ‘Highly Commended’ by the British Medical Association. The last 20 mins explore using Relational Touch and embodied approaches to anxiety. Episode NotesUnderstanding trauma has been clinical gold dust. Helping people negotiate dissociative states is the core of my teaching and treating. That, and, helping people navigate a way through persistent pain. Living every day as if it is an emergency, endlessly turning on reflexes of ‘fight-or-flight’ or ‘freeze’, is exhausting. We will explore bottom up approaches to feeling safe. There are lots of simple tools and principles that help turn down the volume on triggering danger messages. From the archives, audio from a webinar on Trauma is Really Strange on 26 May 2022. You can also view as a video podcast This book is simplistically informative, and discusses the nuances of chronic pain in a thoughtful and careful tone. It is a well sourced book, and it shows in the content.

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It is hard when we can not regulate feelings of speeding up to survive or shutting down to survive. The podcast offers it is possible to safely find new ways to connect to our body and our environment to find agency and choice. Episode Notes This podcast explores models around stress, trauma and appeasement. One of the core themes is that being aware of habitual survival gestures can help us become more resilient. Dissociation is the hidden mystery of trauma, by learning to be grounded we can put the brakes on overactive threat detections responses. Steve, once again in talking head mode, thus diagrammatically takes us through the myriad different forms that trauma can take and what responses we can expect. As before, it’s the incredible degree of symbolism and visual metaphor that Sophie puts into every single illustration which transform this from merely being a succinct and extremely clear explanation of the facts to a fun filled pamphlet of pictorial educational enablement.Best of all, Haines makes it clear -- based on his excellent research and distillation of facts -- that trauma is a whole-person, visceral, body-based experience, and so are the best medicines for it.