Serenity Cafe AcademyThe Window of Tolerance & Autonomic Ladder
Lets talk about the autonomic nervous system which is an important part of the central nervous system. The autonomic nervous system has two branches. The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Fragmented Self & the LSPMi
The LSPMi is NOT a personality inventory. It is simply a data collection tool that can accomplish in an hour or so what might take 15 to 20 sessions to accumulate with traditional talk therapy. It helps us identify the Fragmented (Wounded) Parts-of-Self needing our attention first.
The Iceberg Model
The Iceberg Model is a unified model of addiction, codependency, and childhood abandonment issues I've developed over the course of my personal and professional journey.
The Life Scripts & Parts Matrix (LSPM™)
The phrase "getting triggered" is almost a household word these days. A milder form of the same thing is "getting my buttons pushed." What does it mean? Essentially, being "triggered" means I become reactive. I am proactive when I choose my behaviors, and I am reactive when my behaviors choose me!
Victim vs Creator Mentality
The Drama Triangle, by Steve Karpman, forms the mindset of those who play relationship and/or psychological mind games. David Emerald's Empowerment Dynamic is the positive opposite of the model. The question we need to ask ourselves is: "Which of these two mindsets is productive and which is destructive? Which mindset helps and which one hurts?"
Mental Filters and Normalcy Bias
We humans are subjective beings. Due to limitations in our ability to process all the available sensory data (see, hear, feel data), we all have our own map of reality. We see the world according to what’s important to us. We see things through our unique mental filters including:
Directing Your Movie Mind
The imagination is a very sophisticated and POWERFUL theater of experience, especially since the brain searches for examples of our mental filters and core beliefs. I think of limiting core beliefs and mental filters as "Rational-Lies" because they look true, sound true, and feel true - but they are lies! They are the last things we want to focus on! This lesson provides the "why" of that statement and the "how" to benefit from knowing it.
Understanding Ego-States
Ego-State therapy paved the way for many other "Parts-Oriented" therapies including Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Parts Integration Therapies. Gestalt therapy also plays a major role in the evolution of this therapeutic orientation.
The Flashlight of Awareness
I am an integrative psychotherapist. In other words, I integrate complementary models of therapy in many different ways in order to fit the unique needs of each client I work with. In this video, I want to talk about blending what I know about psychology with what I know about spirituality.
Neurological Group Home Analogy
This lesson explores what happens in the brain and central nervous system when we get triggered into emotional wounds, what should happen, and Don's Group Home Analogy regarding goals for recovery.