Suzie Abrahms

24/06/2025

28/03/2024

Robyn Gobbel - Trauma, Toxic Stress, & Baffling Behaviors 💕

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09/03/2024

05/03/2024

Robyn Gobbel - Trauma, Toxic Stress, & Baffling Behaviors 💕
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It's perfectly human to want someone else's distressing behavior to stop because it makes us uncomfortable (and sometimes it's dangerous).
Believe me, I feel deeply the pull to manipulate someone else's nervous system so I'll feel more comfortable.

I do it more than I'd like to admit publicly here on social media 😜 You can ask my husband.

But that's not real co-regulation.

Co-regulation has no agenda besides "I'm here with you. I can hold this distress as long as it needed."

I'm definitely not throwing shade (um, my BFF's young daughter recently introduced me to this lingo. Is it hip?? I'm old and never leave the house so I'm outta touch with the lingo...)

Anyway I'm definitely not throwing shade at all the times we are offering co-regulation as an attempt to change someone else.

Like I said. I get it. I do it, too.

We can allow our humanity to be completely wonderfully true AND see if we can increase our noticing and our awareness of when we being present versus when we are trying to get someone else to change.

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17/12/2023

"A dysregulated child does not need a calm adult. They need a connected adult. They need an adult who is able to feel the activation and simultaneously access ventral." - Lisa Dion 💕

17/12/2023

We're bringing you this short, focused course (at a discount until midnight only) on how polyvagal theory can strengthen your trauma work with clients.

You'll learn:
How Trauma Changes a Patient’s Physiological Response to the World

How the Nervous System Reacts to Another Person’s Voice
AND MORE!➡️https://www.nicabm.com/program/trauma-porges-22/?del=12.16.23.FBPost3

05/11/2023

Generation Mindful 💕

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29/08/2023

'Autism is a “dynamic disability”. What this means is capacity & functioning are not concrete & may fluctuate dependent on factors such as environment, cognition, executive function, processing capacity, Interoception/exteroception, neuro-fatigue, anxiety, communication differences, burnout & sensory overwhelm. This means Autistics may be capable of a task one day, but unable to perform the task at another.'

Credit: Neurodiversally unbroken

12/08/2023

“What is autism?”

Autistic people process information differently. Some things feel really intense, taking up a lot of our attention. Because of that, we pay less attention to other things.

This can affect our social interactions, communication style, relationships, physical movements, habits, interests, and sensory experiences. Autism is called a “spectrum” because of its unique effect on each person.

neurobeautiful.com/book

(Originally posted on 8/12/17.)

02/08/2023

Very true! Thanks to Sarah Boyd, and the wonderful Richard Cohen’s “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood" for posting!