Trauma Healing Tribe Lisa Schwarz

Matthew Green and Lisa Schwarz explore these key aspects of healing generational trauma:


All present-day trauma can be understood  as having generational and collective roots, and shows itself in the endless replaying of victim, perpetrator and failed rescuer dynamicsTo provide successful generational healing that sticks, the therapist must help the client interweave the narrative with the emotional and somatic memories The need for the client to be as fully embodied as possible to have more capacity and processing ability for the more multi-dimensional work.Spotting red flags for the need for generational work - including addictions, pervasive victimhood stance, perpetration dynamics, and medical and psychological symptoms that are non-responsive to regular treatmentThe need for the therapist to be aware of how generational trauma creates obstacles and blocks to healing.The requirement for the therapist to do their own work, to perceive clearly what needs attention in their clients' presentations.The therapist's need for energetic protections and use of resources to mitigate against any less-than-beneficial generational material exposure.
ABOUT MATTHEW GREEN
Matthew Green is a journalist and author of Aftershock: Fighting war, survivng trauma and finding peace, which documents the struggles of military veterans seeking new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a co-host of the forthcoming Collective Trauma Summit 2023 and writes Resonant World, a newsletter supporting the global movement to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.
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Lisa and Matthew pick up their conversation to talk about healing through the remembering of generational resources.


The re-membering of the ancestral resources as a way in which trauma clearing can occur, when clarity of intention and language is usedAs part of best practice, the need for the therapist to clear at least the majority of their generational wounds, to maintain discernment, accountability and impeccability.The life enriching benefits of ancestral reconnection and relationship, including experience of unity consciousness and highest expressions of love.The need for the therapist to have ongoing contact with their own ancestors in order to provide effective generational work - as a vital part of the healing team The scale of the global issues we face today as a symptom of generational trauma within the very structures of our societyCRM's aims to bring safe, accessible, effective generational healing to large groups - scaling up the work to match the scale of our world's challenges.



ABOUT MATTHEW GREEN
Matthew Green is a journalist and author of Aftershock: Fighting war, survivng trauma and finding peace, which documents the struggles of military veterans seeking new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a co-host of the forthcoming Collective Trauma Summit 2023 and writes Resonant World, a newsletter supporting the global movement to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.
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Ron Schwenkler talks us through what resourcing is  and what happens when it’s an integral part of therapy.

He explains:
How intolerable affect sets up coping and defence mechanisms How CRM resourcing activates the dormant neurobiology of secure attachment and safety in order to be able to approach and process affect. Resourcing as a way of not just regulating, but optimising the system. Resourcing as a skill to facilitate approach towards process, rather than add-on technique to merely contain the client's affect.By interweaving resource threads throughout the client's trauma material, the client can grow in confidence and agency to move towards, face and process what has been previously avoided.Using the full resource model of CRM to challenge secondary gains and to inspire the client to see change as a way to facilitate their long-held dreams
Dr. Ron Schwenkler, has been in the mental health community for 27 years. He is currently located in Denver, Colorado, where he is clinical Director of an outpatient psychiatric clinic that utilizes resourcing as a corner stone of the clinics philosophy.

Website: www.mindspadenver.com

Jennifer talks us through the therapeutic use of ketamine in her practice:
The history of ketamine as an anaesthetic, and at very low doses its off-label uses for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, eating disorders and OCD.The potential for heart opened, expanded states through the use of psychedelics, including ketamineHow her experiences treating both community and individuals suffering with PTSD led her to CRM as a uniquely effective mind-body modalityThe potential ability of ketamine-assisted therapy to expedite the healing in profound waysThe requirement for trust, attunement and safety, including neurobiological safety developed through the CRM work.How ketamine assists openness and the dropping away of social defences, and protector parts, allowing  self observation and deep shiftsThe necessity for therapeutic integration and consolidation of the new realisations and connections from the expanded state back into everyday life
ABOUT JENNIFER PHELPS, MD, MS.
Jenny is a physician Board Certified in both Family Practice and Integrative Medicine. Her 30 year career has spanned a variety of practice settings including primary care, functional medicine and integrative medicine. She is certified in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Research, Mind Body Medicine, Comprehensive Resource Model, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and has worked with both individuals and circle groups from populations traumatized by natural disasters, school shootings and war. Jenny holds a unique perspective and understanding of the tremendous value of connecting and healing in community.

Her current work combining psychedelic medicines and mind body medicine in circle groups creates a path for healing on a wider scale.

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Liz Crawford joins us to share her experience of a healing intensive with Lisa. 

She highlights key points in her experience:


How having the space to work deeply in extended sessions over the intensive differed from weekly sessionsThe additional impact of the Cape May ocean environment for the sense of self in broader contextThe capacity within CRM to process the fear of approaching difficult material, and from there to process previously unbearable pains at the root. The change in ability to love and understand past and present self, and to experience that love and trust as possible in other relationshipsThe ability to use the CRM resourcing scaffold to care for younger parts of self The CRM resourcing that enables the confidence to turn towards oneself and one's material unconditionally.

Pierre Montpeyroux talks about:


His background as spiritual seeker, leading to extensive explorations into meditation and other techniques to assist enlightenment.How Lisa Schwarz's authenticity and personal journey inspired him to go deeper into his personal work, including shadow work and his soul's journey.The capacity for CRM to not only bring clarity to trauma from different timelines, species, lineages and dimensions, but to transmute and clear it fairly quickly. The ability for CRM to  help access love from Source to a greater degree, by clearing deep roots and hidden aspects of past traumas.How the effects of triggering in his daily life challenges are reduced, and how compassion, love and emotional freedom are more available, to himself and those he works withHis learning that the more open he is to possibility, the more can change.The ability of CRM tools to aid the transmutation of trauma, with the continuing evolution of therapy to be faster, deeper and more efficient.