Therefore, anyone suffering from trauma would benefit from practicing mindfulness.

Mindfulness has been shown to help reduce stress. Thank you for being here, and for your practice and work. My commitment? To train you to be effective at both.īelow you’ll learn about the path to mastering TSM, specifically through two courses I developed to train you to become a powerful TSM practitioner. Absent an understanding of trauma, people can end up over-focusing on intense stimuli that requires more than mindful awareness to heal.įor those of us offering mindfulness to others, this lays a certain responsibility at our feet.įirst, we need to learn how to recognize trauma, prevent retraumatization, and keep people safe in practice.īeyond this first step, we can also discover how to offer people life-changing skills that ultimately support their trauma-recovery. While mindfulness can help with trauma recovery, the practice of meditation can create particular challenges for trauma survivors. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing in meditation, but it’s not a simple thing, either. This means that anywhere people are practicing mindfulness, someone is likely to be struggling with trauma. From online meditation programs to grade-school classrooms, people are practicing mindfulness in a variety of ways. Mindfulness is also increasingly popular. Research tells us that 90% of us will live through a traumatic event, and some will develop debilitating symptoms in its aftermath.

I’m an educator, researcher, and trauma professional who created Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM)-a framework that empowers you to teach mindfulness in a safe, effective, trauma-informed way.

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