Jennifer Dyan Gregory, MA, LMHC

10/28/2024

How 'parts work' therapy can help with stress and trauma : Shots - Health News

'Parts work' or Internal Family Systems is a type of talk therapy that’s surged in popularity. Here’s how it works and how it can help with stress.

03/08/2022

https://youtu.be/8Qlez2dbfUk

From the movie "The Wiz" (1978)

11/06/2021

Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann’s story about trauma and recovery. Worth a read..

As she releases an album inspired by Girl, Interrupted, the US indie icon reveals how a childhood kidnapping and her repressive southern childhood left her with PTSD

11/02/2021

(shared from John Boyd, massage therapist)

11/02/2021

06/26/2020

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2436/the-tyranny-of-time/5d2ed7b6-3a2a-4c7c-b491-2a2742748e83/OIM

Consider what it takes to master any new and complex skill, say learning a language, playing a musical instrument, or becoming adept at carpentry. If someone promised to make you an expert in six months, you’d suspect they were selling snake oil. Meaningful personal development takes time and effo...

04/14/2020

04/14/2020

“What we need is more self-compassion, more gentle acceptance of all the difficult emotions coming up for us now, more focus on gentle ways to soothe ourselves and our pain and the pain of loved ones around us, not a whipping by some random fu**er making us feel worse about ourselves in the name of 'motivation.'"

"As a trauma psychologist, I am utterly utterly horrified, enraged, and bewildered about how people can believe and spread this phrase in good conscience."

10/29/2019

9 vagal maneuvers that increase heart rate variability.

10/28/2019

10/04/2019

“A dispensing “pharmacist” will be on-hand to prescribe some poetic medicine for a complicated mix of emotions as well as being able to deliver full-length consultations in the shop’s designated consulting room.”
https://www.keele.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/october/emergency-poet/literary-pharmacy.php

Literature academics from Keele University are opening an innovative “Poetry Pharmacy” to dispense literary “first aid” as a way of bringing the therapeutic benefits of poetry to the local community and to support mental health.

07/02/2019

“If our environment cannot support our gut feelings and our emotions, then the child, in order to ‘belong’ and ‘fit in’ will automatically, unwittingly and unconsciously, suppress their emotions and their connections to themselves, for the sake of staying connected to the nurturing environment, without which the child cannot survive. A lot of children are in this dilemma – ‘can I feel and express what I feel or do I have to suppress that in order to be acceptable, to be a good kid, to be a nice kid?’

Furthermore, if the parents themselves are not in touch with their feelings, they can’t tolerate the child’s feelings because they threaten them. The parent reacts against the child for having anger – and the child learns, I mustn’t express what I feel, because I have to belong to my parents. If I don’t who will protect me and nurture me? Automatically we disconnect from ourselves, in order to continue to be looked after. It’s a tragic choice. It’s not even a choice – the child’s not aware of making a choice. It’s an automatic process.”
https://humanwindow.com/dr-gabor-mate-interview-childhood-trauma-anxiety-culture/

Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health. In this interview, we spoke about a wide variety of topics, ranging from how he believes that most mental health conditions originate from unresolved childhood trauma, to why he describes current Western culture...