Finding Joy - Dealing with Traumatic Memory By Dr. Sanjyot Pethe
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This document discusses how trauma impacts one's ability to experience joy and provides strategies for finding joy when dealing with traumatic memories. It explains that trauma lives in the body and inhibits the ability to connect with others and experience love, compassion, relaxation and calm. It discusses healing traumatic memories through grounding techniques, processing small memories through the body, and reconnecting with oneself and others. The key message is that trauma does not have to be a life sentence and that reconnection and empowerment are important for recovery from psychological trauma.
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Finding Joy - Dealing with Traumatic Memory By Dr. Sanjyot Pethe
- 1. Finding Joy Dealing with Traumatic Memory By Dr. Sanjyot Pethe HELP Talks June 9, 2018
- 2. Intent of the talk • Joy and Trauma • Traumatic Memory • Finding Joy Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however have to be a life sentence – Peter Levine
- 3. How Trauma Impacts Joy There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again Trauma lives in the body and till the time is released, it keeps becoming overwhelmed Trauma inhibits ability to connect to others. It inhibits ability to receive and give love, compassion Trauma keeps the body in constant anger, fear, disgust, guilt and shame Locked up trauma leads to pain, disease, discomfort. It takes away ability to relax.
- 6. Memory • Two types – Explicit and implicit • Explicit – Declarative, episodic • Implicit – Emotional, Procedural
- 7. Thinking about memories • We make memories, but memories make us too • When we retrieve a memory, we open it to edit • Current mood has an impact on interpretation or belief • Traumatic memories intrude the present moment and keeps us in the past
- 8. Negotiating traumatic memory • Grounding and presence • Positive to negative • Small memories process through the body • Mourning and avoiding the false sense of redemption – Forgiveness – Compensation – Revenge
- 9. Joyfulness • Valuing happiness • Engaging in pleasure giving activities that engage the body • Soothing imagery • Reconciling with oneself – Imagination of the new self, new life • Reconnection with others • Finding meaning Helplessness and Isolation are core experiences of psychological trauma. Reconnection and empowerment are core experiences of recovery
- 10. Thank You Peter Levine - Trauma and Memory Bruce Perry – The boy who was raised as a dog Nelisha Wickramemasinghe - Beyond Threat Judith Herman Trauma and recovery