by Sarah Peyton | Mar 12, 2021 | Constellations
How Family Constellations Help Us Heal Intergenerational Trauma Our bodies, quite literally, hold the trauma and stress of the past, including painful childhood experiences and the traumas of the generations before us. Constellations are a 3-dimensional, experiential,...
by Sarah Peyton | Nov 22, 2020 | Unconscious Contracts
What are Unconscious Contracts? I haven’t found any other process that allows us to so thoroughly disentangle the deeply patterned emotional responses and sabotage we enact on ourselves. Untangling unconscious contracts is deeply powerful work, and is the...
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...
