Looking for ways to stay balanced and at your best? Abigail Burd, LCSW, San Diego Psychotherapist blogs here to help new parents, educators and helping professionals help themselves and others.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a “bottom up” tool that is really helpful when your thinking brain knows and understands something, but your body and nervous system are still reacting. Residual trauma is often not in your thinking brain so is better accessed by brain/body techniques like Brainspotting which can directly help your subcortical brain.
In my practice, reproductive trauma, such as birth trauma, stillbirth, TFMR, miscarriage and more, is not always healed completely with “talk therapy” or a “top down” approach.
Sometimes we can think of unprocessed trauma as being held in the the brain like a capsule (Robert Scaer, MD). Brainspotting can help super old trauma move away from being trapped in your present timeline and move it to its proper place in your history.
A brain spot can […]