Couldn’t be more humbled to be asked to participate in the 2nd ever “Biology of Trauma” summit. This is mostly the top docs/researchers/practitioners in the world on this topic: the foremost experts in trauma and mental health – including – Gabor Maté, MD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Vincent J. Felitti, MD; Peter Levine, PhD; and many more.
I was asked, given my lived experience, & now what we do with #SameHere as an org, to host a session, entitled “Creating an Intentional Toolbox for Mental Health.” We’ll dive deep into STARR (stress & trauma active release & rewiring) Exercises. We’ll also explore how stress & trauma impact our lives, how to recognize the onset of the early phases of freeze response in highly-driven people (who are usually the ones to pay least attention) as well as strategies for protecting our emotional well-being.
Our session will have special appearances by Dr. Andrew Pleener and Dr. Michael Gruttadauria, who oversee our #SameHere Psych (integrative MH experts) & #SameHere Docs (functional medicine experts) Alliances.
For this summit to recognize lived experience folks, and those building orgs to attack this societal epidemic, along w the docs & gurus, is truly awesome. We need more lived experience voices.
Will leave the link to the free event in Stories today.