Therapy, explained from scratch
Someone said polyvagal, or EMDR, or parts, and you nodded. Maybe a therapist; maybe a podcast. Here is what they were talking about, with nothing assumed.
Five so far
One idea per page. Big pictures, few words, and nothing you have to know first.
Janina Fisher
TIST
For when the ways you cope (cutting, drinking, starving, wanting to die) are the things doing you harm. Why each one is a part of you that learned to survive, and what to say to it.
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Richard Schwartz
IFS
A therapy for when part of you keeps doing what the rest of you hates. The mind as a family of parts, the three jobs they take, and the Self underneath them.
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Francine Shapiro
EMDR
Trauma therapy, for when something terrible keeps coming back as if it were now. Why that happens, what a session looks like, and whether the eye movements matter.
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David Grand
Brainspotting
For trauma, and for whatever you cannot get past. Found by accident in 2003, and built on where your eyes happen to be pointing.
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Deb Dana
Polyvagal theory
A way to understand why you feel calm, anxious or shut down, what moves you back, and why none of it is your fault.
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Who made this
Rian van der Merwe, who is married to a therapist, currently in therapy himself, and really needs to understand how things work. Every page quotes the person who had the idea, and ends with sources and evidence.