by Sarah Peyton | Nov 22, 2020 | Unconscious Contracts
What are Unconscious Contracts? I teach this process extensively, and my second book (publishing in 2021) will feature it prominently!) because I haven’t found any other process that allows us to so thoroughly disentangle the deeply patterned emotional responses...
by Sarah Peyton | Nov 21, 2020 | Intimacy and Relationships, Reactivity, The Inner Critic
Truth Not Trauma: Understanding Relational Trauma and the Brain Once we understand how trauma impacts our mammalian circuitry (Jaak Panksepp’s 8 circuits of emotion and motivation), we begin to see that so many things we’ve given ourselves a hard time for,...
by Sarah Peyton | Nov 21, 2020 | Attachment, Reactivity, The Inner Critic
Understanding Rage and Honoring Boundaries in Healing Trauma In our culture, rage is considered mostly unacceptable, especially by women. But rage is one of our eight circuits of emotion and motivation. In this podcast interview, we discuss how rage helps us...
by Sarah Peyton | Nov 18, 2020 | Anxiety, Attachment
Panksepp’s Circuits of Emotion and Motivation (and why it matters for healing trauma) Working with shame is often really about disgust, and how we learn as little ones to turn toward the self with disgust which evolves into shame for the self. Understanding...
by Sarah Peyton | Nov 12, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Loneliness
Climate anxiety isn’t a disease. It’s a normal response to a world on fire Climate anxiety is not primarily a disease. Instead it is an understandable reaction to the magnitude of the environmental problems that surround us. What is climate anxiety?...
