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Your body doing what it is designed to do: a human trauma response during a pandemic
Dr. Christine Gibson is a family doctor in Calgary, Canada with a special interest in mental health and trauma response. In this video, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she describes the reflex response in our bodies that happens when we encounter stress. Using Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory - she describes both a high-activity response of tension and a low-activity response of dissociation. She offers practical tools for when we find ourselves out of the "window of tolerance".
This is the time of healing transition
We have an opportunity – right here, right now – to redefine healing care. To examine what our collective values are and have our systems reflect those in each facet. To deeply examine what it means to be healed, to be cared for.
Epigenetics explains how stress matters... even to the next generation
“If people understood more about epigenetics, they’d never suggest that someone could easily “let go” of the structural trauma. They’d know it’s encoded. There are many ways to work with epigenetics in helpful ways.”
How does trauma show up?
“Since I started working in community, it became clear that the root causes of much ill health - physical, emotional, and more - is often trauma.”