By Colleen DeRango, MA, LISAC, SEP, The Meadows
For many of us practitioners, we have been conditioned for years to focus on the “why” and the “what,” and celebrated the “insights gained.” With our new understanding of trauma healing, this has expanded into focusing on the “where and what do you notice in your body?”
Working with patients who are challenged by the complexities of eating disorders, throughout their healing we focus on “pouncing on their positive sense of I can,” and sometimes this sense merely lasts a glimmer of a second. To delve deeper too soon is a mistake. There may not be enough resilience in their human system to hold onto the glimmer, so we tenderly support them in building up the glimmers into a full sensation of expansion.
