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How Trauma Creates Narrow “Windows of Tolerance” in Survivors
Why trauma survivors react dramatically to stimulus, and how you can help them handle stress in healthy ways
Trauma survivors can struggle to self-regulate and control their responses to everyday stressors and the unexpected. In this short video, Irina Diyankova, Ph.D., RYT-200 reveals why trauma survivors are more prone to extreme reactions to stress such as rage, binge drinking and self-harm.
Five lifestyle factors that can help clients make progress faster
How the acronym “SEEDS” can improve emotional stability, cognitive function, and resilience.
Are you missing the big picture? Learn how five simple lifestyle changes can help treat trauma, anxiety, and depression.
Introduction to Yoga for Trauma Treatment
Help your clients break the crippling grip of trauma faster (NO yoga certification or crazy flexibility required)
Irina Diyankova, PhD, RYT-200 busts some stubborn myths about yoga and who it’s for (hint: It’s NOT just for skinny, flexible people). You’ll also discover the many benefits of using yoga in trauma treatment.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on Interoception & Yoga
Effective Trauma Treatment
It’s frustrating when your client gets stuck — overwhelmed by fear, shame, helplessness...Here’s one solution that’s extremely effective in moving therapy forward.
Play Therapy Activities to Help Kids Achieve Greater Self-Regulation
Interventions based in Play Therapy and Mindfulness to understand and improve the world of children
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS, shares simple, playful and on-point interventions that combines mindfulness, expressive arts and play to help kids achieve greater self-regulation, focus more and stress less.
Taming the Wild Things
Helping anxious kids and those trying to shield them from feelings of fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or discomfort.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares how to override the demanding voice of anxiety.
PESI Book Club: October 2019
Four children-focused books to add to your reading list.
This month's suggested reads include four products to help improve the well-being of the children in your life.
Food Refusal? Try Food Exploring!
How to Help Kids Go Beyond Fast Food
Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP, BCS-S, offers helpful tips for feeding therapists and their clients.
Leslie’s “Go-To” Granola Recipe
A Recipe to Improve Attention & Focus
Dr. Leslie Korn shares a brainpower-promoting recipe from her book, Eat Right, Feel Right.
Why We Must Think of Children—and our Nervous System—as Trees
Free Self-Regulation and Mindfulness Activity and Worksheets
Join Varleisha (Gibbs) Lyons, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, as she shares several transformative exercises for children and families challenged by sensory processing disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and various other neurodevelopmental disorders.