{"id":117,"date":"2018-04-23T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:32:22","slug":"recovering-from-traumatic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from traumatic events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pods-online.org.uk\/\">PODS<\/a> training event this past weekend: Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carolynspring.co.uk\/\">Carolyn Spring<\/a>, the founder of PODS, delivers many of the PODS training events.\u00a0 A survivor of childhood trauma herself, she provides a deep insight into how therapists can engage with trauma and dissociative survivors.<\/p>\n<p>One of the standout moments for me was hearing Carolyn talk about shame-related behaviours: &#8220;Shame may keep us alive but it may not keep us safe.&#8221; This goes to the core of post-traumatic stress disorder &#8211; we all possess effective coping skills to get through traumatic events and the immediate after effects. However, we can then start to live with a heightened senses of threat and self-blame, which get in the way of us acknowledging when we are truly safe and truly unsafe, so we have trouble figuring out how to respond appropriately to our world.<br \/>\nThere are many ways to manage post-traumatic stress, and reduce these heightened senses, including one-to-one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?page_id=27\">therapy<\/a> and practices such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mind.org.uk\/information-support\/drugs-and-treatments\/mindfulness\/\">mindfulness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are curious about Dissociative Disorders, including support, please have a look at the PODS website: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.pods-online.org.uk\/helpline\">https:\/\/support.pods-online.org.uk\/helpline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a great PODS training event this past weekend: Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice. Carolyn Spring, the founder of PODS, delivers many of the PODS training events.\u00a0 A survivor of childhood trauma herself, she provides a deep insight into how therapists can engage with trauma and dissociative survivors. One of the standout &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recovering from traumatic events&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}