Transforming the 'Living Legacy' of Trauma (HS - FISHER - 057740)

Course overview

Despite having survived, trauma survivors are often left with a fragmented, confusing sense of what happened. Traumatic reminders continue to keep the trauma 'alive' by repetitively re-activating the stress response system and survival defenses. Unaware that these reactions are traumatic memories held in the body, they assume that they are still in danger or somehow at fault. They still feel unsafe, still re-experience the same emotions of shame, fear, anger and hopelessness over and over again. Telling the story of what happened sometimes brings relief but does not resolve the 'living legacy' of traumatic reactions that continue to torment the client day after day. Learn how to help clients make sense of trauma-based symptoms (such as overwhelming emotions, intrusive images, numbing and disconnection), manage these overwhelming reactions, and change their relationship to the traumatic experiences, putting the past to rest.