How does Trauma-Informed Coaching work?
We will discuss your nervous system's responses to trauma and your coping mechanisms. All behaviors, thoughts, and feelings after distress are trauma responses and are categorized either by your response as a result of what happened or as a way of coping with what happened. Sometimes they are both.
Trauma-informed coaching approaches can lead to discoveries of why you cope in an unhealthy way, such as binge eating. It can get to the root causes of why you have nightmares, headaches, and unexplained body pains. And much more.
The brain and the body respond naturally to external stressors and traumas in a usual way using trauma responses and coping mechanisms. Commonly, trauma is associated with negative societal beliefs, poverty, inequality, oppression, abuse, violence, threats, chronic stressful situations, discrimination, isolation, loss, grief, disabilities, illnesses, accidents, and injuries. And much more.
To get to the bottom of your trauma and suffering, we will discuss What is hurting you? What did someone do to you? What is scaring you? What is enraging you? What is making you feel trapped? Who is oppressing you? What are you trying to cope with? What are you responding to? What is overwhelming you? Who made you feel guilty? Shamed? Blamed?
Although it is not our fault what happened to us, healing is our responsibility.
Trauma-Informed Coaching can help in your recovery to self-healing.
Positive Psychology Coaching
The ultimate coaching goals are to increase self-regulation of the client's nervous system and to guide them in the desired direction so they can set their health, happiness, and healing intentions.
Because self-regulation is often difficult, mainly due to the client's ruminations in continuous trauma responses and being stuck in negative feelings from external pressures, trauma-informed coaching can provide a safe, supportive and caring environment whereby the client will not fear judgment, opinions, expectations, or criticisms and belittlements.
Once in this safe space, clients can learn to reprogram their awareness levels and behaviors and transform their coping mechanisms to healthier states.
Positive Psychology Coaching focuses on the client's strengths, identified and used to improve self-regulation and nervous system flexibility. Some common strengths are persistence, creativity, and gratitude. Acknowledging these strengths will help the client feel and perform at their best during difficult times.
Reiki
- Reiki is a Japanese spiritual healing technique in which practitioners can help your body heal itself through touch. "Rei" translates to "universe" or "life force," and "ki" translates to the physical energy of the body (also known as qi); put together, Reiki translates to "universal life force energy." Ultimately, Reiki means LOVE.
- My job as a Reiki Practitioner is to help your body work its healing magic. And all healing is self-healing.
- In today's society, we're all running around on empty, with just enough energy to get through what we have to do every day—meaning there's not a lot of energy left over for your body to work on maintenance, repair, and more profound levels of well-being and healing. When you give Reiki and awareness to your body, you connect your body and mind's ability to self-heal and self-love with life-force energy.