Overcoming Trauma & Setting Healthy Boundries

Meeting the demands of daily life can be overwhelming. Developing
healthy boundaries – physical and energetic - can help you reduce
stress and feel more in control.


In this podcast, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) Brian D.
Mahan explains why it’s hard for many people to set clear
boundaries (because most of us didn’t learn how in childhood).
 


“We weren’t allowed to have those boundaries in our family
situation and then we don’t know how to take that…. Into our
social lives.”


“The more we are able to identify what our energetic boundaries
are, what our values are, then the more we are able to…… 
sit in the strength of our own sense of what’s right and wrong,”
said Mahan.


Mahan says identifying your core values is key a first step
toward establishing healthy boundaries.


“It’s important to get in touch with ‘what’s important to us,
what’s not important, what we like and what we dislike.”


When values are defined, he says, a person can make a decision
and take action, or what he calls ‘healthy aggression.’


“we have this opinion that aggression is a bad thing, and the
reason we have that is it’s usually shamed out of us as children”
but, Mahan says ‘Healthy aggression is also discipline,
dedication, drive, empowerment.”


In this podcast, you will also learn how Somatic Experiencing
(SE) can offer relief to those suffering from PTSD
(post-traumatic stress disorder), trauma and other disturbing
life events.


Mahan was introduced to SE at the suggestion of his chiropractor.
He was suffering from daily panic attacks following a major car
crash. He says, after three SE sessions, his panic attacks went
away.


The experience was so life-changing for him, he became an SE
practitioner and now trains others in this methodology as well.


SE, created by Dr. Peter Levine, is considered one of the world’s
foremost approaches for dealing with developmental trauma,
anxiety, stress and panic disorders.


Find out more about Brian D. Mahan and SEP at BrianDMahan.com


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