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Michelle Dixon on Bodywork for Preverbal Trauma
If you feel like something’s not quite right with you life but you can’t put your finger on it, this episode of Woman Worriers is for you. Host Elizabeth Cush and her guest, Michelle Dixon, talk about developmental and preverbal trauma and how bodywork and talk therapy can work together to help heal these early wounds.
“Emotion is so embedded in memories and the connectivity of all of our memories and how they create this tapestry and then we make meaning of them.”
Show Notes:
Some people have painful recollections of childhood. Others may remember their childhood as happy, but as adults feel like something is not quite right, like they don’t have a right to be here or that the world would be better off without them. That’s because some wounds occur before we have the words to understand or describe them. In this week’s episode of the Woman Worriers podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist and founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., welcomes Michelle Dixon, a trauma specialist and mindfulness coach who takes a holistic approach to recovery, which includes releasing trauma from the body. They talk about developmental and preverbal trauma, how to recognize it and how to heal it.
Listen and learn:
The meaning of a “somatic approach” to therapy and why it can be helpful
What preverbal trauma and developmental trauma are and why they have such an impact on our lives
Why talk therapy alone sometimes isn’t enough—and how to know you might need something more
Why you might not have painful memories of past trauma
How unremembered trauma might show up in your life today
Why a sense of worthlessness might signal that you may have experienced trauma before you learned to talk
What de-armoring is and the different traditions of de-armoring for emotional release
How the native American tradition of de-armoring is carried out today
How bodywork and talk therapy complement and balance each other
Different types of bodywork
Why old traumas are surfacing and resurfacing during the pandemic
What to look for in a bodyworker and where to find one
Where to find a free emotional detox program to help you through the holiday season
Learn More:
> Michelle Dixon – Emotional Healing on Facebook
> Michelle Dixon Healing on Instagram
> Michelle Dixon on Pinterest
> Michelle Dixon on Vimeo
> Michelle Dixon on YouTube
> Bessel Van Der Kolk’s website
> The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. MD
> Peter Levine’s Somatic Experience Trauma Institute website
> Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) website
> Shamanic De-armoring website
> Woman Worriers on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook & Twitter
Other episodes you might enjoy
> Episode 81: Danielle Ivins-Fishman on Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)—Using Your Body’s Innate Wisdom to Heal from Trauma
> Episode 97: Nikki Kenward on Gut Health—Understanding the Gut-Brain Connection
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