Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Dr. Nadine Harris has been studying the effects of early childhood adversity on health outcomes later on in life. In her 30 years of studying research, the findings are clear. Childhood trauma dramatically affects health across a lifetime. These are not some new findings. We've known this for 30 years and yet our society has not made any serious effort to make life easier for working class families. By outsourcing good-paying jobs, imposing stiffer sentences for drug offenses, and failing to increase wages, life has become harder across the board. And this ultimately creates even more trauma within families who become overwhelmed by stress. And the question Dr. Harris asks is why. 🌍 LIKE + SUBSCRIBE + CLICK BELL TO SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS 🌍 Learn more about this video ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/stories/why-doctors-ignore-trauma/ 🌍 Support us on Patreon ⟹ patreon.com/sustainablehuman 🌍 Make a one-time donation ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/donate Sustainable Human is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to evolve human consciousness by examining the underlying stories that give rise to the environmental, social, and economic crises of our time and offer new stories that help humanity to live in harmony with each other and the biosphere. 🌍 Hire us to tell your story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/video-storytelling/ 🌍 Sponsor a story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/sponsor-a-story/ 🌍 Help us translate this video ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/translate/ 🌍 Story by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris 0:00 - The Long Term Health Effects of Childhood Trauma 0:52 - How Trauma Changes Our Physiology 2:11 - How Trauma Triggers Our Fight Or Flight Response 3:51 - Why Doctors Ignore Trauma Transcript: In the mid-'90s, the CDC and Kaiser Permanente discovered an exposure that dramatically increased the risk for seven out of 10 of the leading causes of death in the United States. Folks who are exposed in very high doses have triple the lifetime risk of heart disease and lung cancer and a 20-year difference in life expectancy. And yet, doctors today are not trained in routine screening or treatment. Now, the exposure I'm talking about is not a pesticide or a packaging chemical. It's childhood trauma. I'm not talking about failing a test or losing a basketball game. I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence. We now understand better than we ever have before how exposure to early adversity affects the developing brains and bodies of children. It affects areas like the nucleus accumbens, the pleasure and reward center of the brain that is implicated in substance dependence. It inhibits the prefrontal cortex, which is necessary for impulse control and executive function, a critical area for learning. And on MRI scans, we see measurable differences in the amygdala, the brain's fear response center. So there are real neurologic reasons why folks exposed to high doses of adversity are more likely to engage in high-risk behavior, Even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer. The reason for this has to do with the brain's and body's stress response system that governs our fight-or-flight response. Keep Reading: https://sustainablehuman.org/stories/why-doctors-ignore-trauma/#Transcript Sync ID: MB01TOACOYWSJ2C #ChildhoodTrauma #ACES #SustainableHuman

Welcome to Part 1 in my series: What is IFS? Internal Family Systems Therapy, Explained. In this video, I provide an introduction to IFS Therapy. I explain some of the core concepts of IFS such as parts work, and the science behind these parts. I also briefly discuss how the approach of an IFS therapist might differ from the methods of other experiential therapists. You know, one thing I would like to mention, is that in this video I say "in a pathological sense" when referring to people with DID (what we used to call 'multiple personality disorder'). Of course my meaning was that to have multiple parts is not linked to any kind of mental health problem...it's just the way we are born. But now when I hear myself saying 'pathological sense' when talking about DID, I sort of cringe...because really everything in the mind is adaptive...even the more severe separation of our parts in the form of DID. In my haste to make a quick point, I think I used a word (pathological) that I wouldn't normally use...or even believe in. So apologies for that. #toriolds #partswork #ifs #therapy 00:00 An Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy 01:15 “Parts Work” in IFS Therapy 03:37 The Neuroscience Behind IFS Therapy and Parts Work 05:17 How Childhood Experiences and Implicit Memory Create “Our Parts” 08:00 Why Do We Have Many Different Parts? 11:06 There Are No Bad Parts 15:54 IFS: A Relational Frame for Working With Schemas For information about my "Minding the Heart" training groups or to sign up for my video courses and earn mental health education CEUs, check out toriolds.com For more information about Memory Reconsolidation you can find my video here: https://youtu.be/PWfpLtgxDi4

David Grand, founder of Brainspotting Therapy, talks about Brainspotting with Mark Grixti the UK Brainspotting trainer. Together they explore the incredible development of Brainspotting over the years and it's astonishing power in trauma therapy, performance and beyond. For training information visit us at www.bspuk.co.uk

What if you extrapolated the most effective approaches in trauma therapy, combined them and then added an astonishing new dimension? In this playful sketch animation, Clinical Psychologist Dr Mark Grixti explores Brainspotting Therapy, the revolutionary new body/brain approach to healing trauma. WWW.BSPUK.CO.UK

In this video we will describe the advanced mind body therapy called Brainspotting. Brainspotting is a powerful therapy for healing from PTSD, trauma, performance anxiety, stress, depression, panic attacks, and many other psychological issues. It has roots in EMDR and similarly allows for the reprocessing and releasing of negative experiences. It is based on the premise that ‘where you look affects how you feel’. The strategy follows a brief set up with a few key steps including awareness of a stressful issue, focused eye position (Brainspot) and mindful attunement. These steps allow the brain to process and release stressful, traumatic and often stuck experiences. The brainspot is not just one spot in the brain but an active network. Accessing this active network is similar to opening the information capsule that contains the stored traumatic or stressful information so that it can be released and healed. Brainspotting is different from talk therapy approaches in that it gets at the heart of where trauma and stress are stored in the brain and body. This is typically in the nonverbal, nonlinear and subconscious parts of the brain that talk therapy does not access. Most clients report a profound effect with Brainspotting that continues long after the session ends. Clients also find the flexibility and adaptability of Brainspotting gives them a feeling of being back in control of events or circumstances that previously felt beyond their control. Additionally, they note feeling empowered, calmer and intuitive. To speak with a counselor about brainspotting trauma therapy call (619) 819-6841. Facetime or Skype sessions available.

Learn about how EMDR therapy works, what it is like, and how widely it is recognized. EMDR therapists discuss how EMDR therapy works and the feedback they receive from clients. This video from 2019 lists membership numbers and titles at the time of publication.

Brainspotting has roots in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and similarly supports the reprocessing of negative experiences and retrains emotional reactions. Both are therapeutic interventions that access deeply stored emotional, somatic, traumatic and often subconscious information. Both interventions may involve bilateral stimulation and are considered advanced brain-body based strategies. The primary difference between the two involves the procedure used. Brainspotting is based on the premise that ‘where you look affects how you feel’. As an individual maintains an eye position while focusing on a stressful experience, they connect to a spot in the brain (brainspot) that gives them access to releasing and processing the challenging experience. Dual Attunement is a primary tenant of Brainspotting in that the attunement of the therapist activates brain pathways associated with safety, support and connection. During Brainspotting once the focused eye position is established, the client is allowed to organically and intuitively process through their experience without following a specific series of steps. Many clients find this to be empowering, instinctual and flexible while others prefer more structure. For those that want more structure EMDR may be a better suited technique. EMDR follows a very specific protocol in which the therapist guides the client through a series of repetitive steps. EMDR has been around longer than Brainspotting and has more established research behind it. As part of this process, the client focuses on a stressful or traumatic issue while experiencing bilateral stimulation. The client is guided to repeatedly reexperience the issue while being guided through the steps in the process. While Brainspotting involves a focused eye position, EMDR involves rapid bilateral movement of the eyes, auditory or sensory system. Some clients report they find EMDR to be too directed, structured, overstimulating and not as adaptable and fluid as Brainspotting, while others appreciate the structure and specific steps. As practitioners of both EMDR and Brainspotting we have found many clients have deeper and more profound releases with Brainspotting and prefer its fluidity. To speak with a therapist about Brainspotting or EMDR call us at (619) 819-6841. FaceTime and Skype sessions available.

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