Keith Young, LCPC, CCTP, CH

Professionally curious about closing wounds and slaying demons

Therapist, certified clinical trauma professional, hypnotherapist, educator, author

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I was invited to join an hour-long discussion about trauma recovery for Maine Public Radio / NPR. It was live and we took quite a few calls in the second half. I'd never done anything like this before but these wonderful people helped me feel right at home! Link's in comments

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Very happy to report that my first book, "Trauma and Resilience: Your Questions Answered" is now an audiobook on Audible, Amazon and ITunes! Lots of info about trauma recovery and modern treatments. Click to hear a preview!

https://t.co/Rs54KvV3ae

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@katieemorann Thanks homie so do you

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@bbrains27 Very much so! I use EFT (tapping) and there's certainly a body component to the EMDR work I do as well. I'm a big fan of Peter Levine's somatic experiencing, sensorimotor therapy and trauma-informed yoga. Huge leaps in recovery happen from processing through the body

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Hi everyone! I'm a therapist with over 20 years' specialization in treatment of severe trauma. New to Twitter, excited to meet people, not providing therapy but offering thoughts and happy to answer questions. Please retweet if you want to extend the invitation.

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Miles Johnston, "The Wound", 2018 Graphite on paper

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Posttraumatic growth doesn't mean we give painful life events credit for our development, just as we don't give credit to abusers for a survivor's recovery. Our sense of safety, self-worth and self-efficacy are found not because we've been traumatized, but because we survived.

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@L_Villandry A woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

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The kids we once were are still watching and learning.
It's true that we can't change the past but recovery ripples backwards as much as it carries us forward.

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@BestGrandmaNow No problem!

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@BestGrandmaNow process as REM sleep. Another theory comes from our knowledge that when we're triggered and having a flashback, the frontal lobe and left side of the brain shut down, meaning the brain 's trying to distinguish between past and present and process what happened but shutting (con)

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@BestGrandmaNow Sure! EMDR's considered a gold standard for resolving trauma and we've got theories about how it works, but we're still learning. The predominant theory is that it rapidly processes everything we carry in our minds and bodies that sustains PTSD symptoms using the same...(cont)

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@manicmagicalgrl You definitely got one of the good ones!

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Trauma often pushes our deepest beliefs in three directions: that we're not safe in this world, that we're not good enough, or that we're unlovable. Rediscover your feelings of safety. Find the truth of your worth. We CAN break free from the falsehoods that burden us.

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@JuliaCatlinPsy That you can hear someone's trauma narrative attentively enough to repeat back every word, and empathize with every emotion, without damaging yourself by playing the movie of their story in your head.

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@Jadayshaaa What a fantastically unanswerable question. The more we are the more we wouldn't know