In episode 3 of the Fresh Start podcast, Dr. Reggie Melrose, PhD talks to Rabbi Shais Taub about topics including the limits of talk therapy; why people with trauma have a special ability to help others with trauma; and the plight of “sensitive souls” for whom life itself can be traumatic.
Dr. Reggie Melrose, PhD is the best-selling author of The 60 Seconds Fix. She is a well-known international speaker and consultant specializing in the application of current neuroscience to educational practice and parenting. She completed Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) three-year training program to become an SE Practitioner.
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I only watched some of the video. I just wanted to mention as someone who experienced real trauma and lived with the debilitating affects I have been able to work through it in therapy and get rid of a lot of it. I’m still in therapy so not fully there. I know it works because the symptoms of the trauma which used to be incredibly prevalent have seriously toned down. I am experiencing true happiness and peace and I’ve learned to work with my emotions. It did take a few tries to find the right therapist but it worked for… Read more »
To add to my previous comment, I tried somatic therapy and it didn’t work for me. So I think everyone has to try till they find what works for them, it’s not one size fits all with mental health.
I’m one of those people who was always seen as “weird” and different and experienced a lot of rejection as a result. I appreciate the acknowledgement that we have a different sensitivity and awareness than others. Most people just want to keep the status quo so they try to shut us down. And pretty amazing how you got to the concept of geulah at the end. This really is the point of existence—that the sense of being an “undifferentiated whole” should permeate all of existence, that we should be able to maintain our independence and still experience oneness with G-d… Read more »
Thank you so much for bringing her on and sharing this with the public. She is so so so so right. Talk therapy can only help to a certain point and I still struggle so much. Being traumatized is so hard and such a hard way of living. And people DONT get you like she described… labels..boxes… she is so amazing.
She gets it. She gets trauma. Never felt like somone understood me so much.
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