“Nobody can ‘treat’ a war, or abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event, for that matter; what has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you may label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing; the nightmares and flashbacks; the fog that keeps you from staying on task and from engaging fully in what you are doing; being unable to fully open your heart to another human being.” ~ Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

Intergenerational trauma, now recognized in conventional trauma work, is the trauma passed from one generation to the next. This type of trauma can’t be “talked-about” as it is not stored in the brain areas accessible by language but is instead cached as primitive, pre-language experiences like sensations, perceptions, emotions, images, and motor reactivity within the brain’s survival structures. The most effective way to address this trauma is through mind-body therapy, such as mind-body connected guided imagery, which can help individuals process and heal these deep-seated trauma responses.

SMGI® differentiates nine different trauma survival responses and can handle it with equanimity.

Our work together will be fun, soft, simple and yet deceptively powerful.

Thanks ancestors! It’s all healable.