HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
“CATHRYN’S STORY -
HOW HEALING MY MEMORIES CHANGED MY LIFE -
From the age of eight to my early forties, I was crippled with problems that I hid from the world. I was an expert at presenting the image of normality but behind that front, I struggled. I was brought up to keep my feelings to myself, and I routinely bottled them up, not talking to anyone about the traumas I experienced. By the age of 13 I had become chronically depressed, socially phobic and battled an eating disorder for the next 20 years. I was deeply ashamed of the person I had become. I never sought help, because I believed I was simply a failure. I had no idea I was in fact suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or cPTSD.
Stumbling into the world of holistic healthcare probably saved my life. It certainly healed my life! The theories of holistic psychology were a revelation, but I then discovered I had a very unusual capacity to work with my internal responses to great effect. It allowed me to resolve my own painful memories. This was the key to transforming my life. My symptoms gradually diminished as I used these innovative and intuitive new ways to address the key events of my life. Those symptoms have never returned!
There is something so special about attaining the emotional, psychological and practical freedoms that once seemed impossible. The focus of my work is now to bring these methods to greater public awareness so that many other people can benefit from them, as I and my clients for the past 15 years, have done.
Every day can be a celebration of the human ability to recover and transform! Our lives can move forward in the most wonderful new ways when we have truly let go of the things we needed to.”
WHAT IS HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY?
In Holistic Psychology we acknowledge the vital roles that
our physical body and survival brain play in the healing process.
We simply cannot heal well if we use only our ‘head'. Willpower cannot resolve deeply impacting issues because we are so much more than just our thoughts! It is by listening and responding to the messages coming from our bodies and working with our instinctive responses, that we can take the most effective route to wellness.
Originally an EFT practitioner and trainer, I have spent the past 15 years developing and refining an innovative and incredibly effective solution for mental health and well-being issues. Profoundly enlightened by the ground-breaking works of Dr Peter Levine, Dr Robert Scaer and Pete Walker, I realised that human wholeness requires a listening and responding to our instinctive physiology in a very specific way. I call this approach the -
INSTINCTIVE RESPONSE PROTOCOL ( I.R.P.)
Knowing how to work appropriately with the 'physiology of stress' - (the fight/flight/freeze mechanism, the feedback loop between thoughts and emotions, and the way events are stored and replayed via our memories) we can resolve our problems far more easily than is generally believed to be possible. Managing the stress response allows us to gently change old patterns and habits and recover from trauma of all types.
This is not as complicated as it sounds.
We all share the same basic instinctive mechanisms.
They have simply never been used to their full advantage!
THIS IS AN EXCITING PARADIGM SHIFT _
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what holistic psychology can achievE…