Emerald Coast Brainspotting Institute

05/21/2024

In couples counseling, speaking the truth in love is a daunting task. When fear drives individuals, they tend to lie to avoid trouble, which ultimately leads to the demise of relationships due to the survival mode mentality. This fear and survival mode weakens the bond of love, causing separation instead of connection.
What's driving your life? Fear or Love?
There is help and hope,
David C

01/06/2024

In order to get to where you want to be in life, you need to know at least three basic things:
1. Where you are at in order to begin.
2. Where are you going. 3. A belief where you are going is possible and worth the effort.

What are your plans for the future? Are you ready to face unknown challenges? What is holding you back in life? What would life be like after you break free from unwarranted fear?
Why not find out...

I look forward to welcoming you to the possibilities of possibilities.

David Copeland, PhD
LHMC
Life Coach

11/23/2023

Gratefulness is a prerequisite to having peace, so give thanks in all things.

05/06/2023

Here is some more information on some of the the science behind Brainspotting.
Enjoy,
David C

05/08/2022

Q: Is Brainspotting, bypassing spiritual development?
A: Being uncomfortable looking into one's own soul is not uncommon, but it is fear based. In life, we are either reacting in fear, or responding in love. Staying in a reactive survival mode (fear), blocks people from responding in love. From a spiritual perspective, knowing the truth about your life and experiences doesn't bypass spiritually, but allows you to enter into it with clearer understanding. So, I can either get the splinter pulled out or wait for my body to push it out. I guess for me, why prolong the suffering?

12/06/2021

Someone on another page asked "What is Brainspotting?"
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Thanks For this great question

I’ll give an explanation a go.

If you think of your brain like a coconut….. 🌴

It has an outer layer and an inner layer 🥥

The good news is Talk therapy 🗣can help the outer layer to understand what is troubling you so you understand it better. 😀 but you still don’t feel better all over.

Like the outside of a coconut, It’s super easy to access understanding your troubles, just by talking. 🗣

The bad news 😰 is Talking Therapies can’t get through to the inner layer - that’s where all the emotions (coconut water) and body sensations (coconut pulp) are connected to what is troubling you are located. 👤

It’s challenging to open a coconut unless you know an easy way to do that. Therapies have struggled with this for decades. How to access the inner parts of the brain and have them process the rest of what troubles us.

Talking is good but it’s not enough.

Brainspotting is this easier way to get to the deeper/inside the brain (inside of the coconut) quickly, simply and easily.

we need to get to the deeper juicier part of the coconut 🥥 to be able to process where in the brain 🧠 those troubling thoughts/events are held.

Brainspotting uses a very simple technique of having you first talk 🗣briefly about what is troubling you

and then your therapist asks you to notice any body sensations you are noticing as you talk. 🤔

You notice that as you talk about the troubling event, your body 👤 starts to have sensations ( which can also be troubling for you) e.g. tightness in your throat, stomach feels sick, heartbeat quickens etc ) in your body (the inside layer of the coconut)

Then, along with your therapist, you find an eye position that connects to those body sensations/ an eye position - which just means where your eyes are looking (up, down, left, right) which allows you to feel the body sensations fully. 👀 🙄

Astoundingly, there is an eye position that makes the body sensations feel stronger and another eye position which will still connect you to the troubling thought/event but with less sensation. 😅

This eye position is an easy way to (open the coconut😀) and easily bypass that outer layer and easily get through to the inner layer which is where the good parts are. 🥥

This eye position 👀 is like a key 🗝 that easily and effortlessly opens, and holds open the troubling event file in your brain 🗝🧠 and when that happens it allows your brain’s own ability to heal itself to access the troubling event where it is held in this deeper part of your brain and rewire it so all the unpleasant thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the troubling event to resolve completely.

❤️🙏

11/11/2021

Happy Veterans day to all who have served!

09/13/2021

Just completed the Brainspotting Master's training this weekend. Great opportunity to share results and learn from Dr David Grand himself.
There is help and hope!
David C

09/12/2021

Today people live in a continued state of what I realize and call systemic traumatization. I drives and controls people by fear just like a cultic religion. It can lead to event's like Jim Jones in Jamestown Guyana. By the way don't drink the Koolaid...

Here is a recent article on redefining trauma to include areas outside of combat.

There is help and hope!
David C

The restricted and rigid definitions of trauma that only allow for it under the most extreme of circumstances, such as military service or sexual violence are holding us back in our understanding and treatment of it - how can we reframe it as a society?

07/07/2021

Fearfully and wonderfully made!

The "eyes" have it! What? Brainspotting accesses and finds those elusive blind areas hidden from the cognitive side of the brain. Check your allignment today for a Brainspotting check-up!
Dr. David C

02/06/2021

For further information...
Dr David C.

“New findings relating to gut-brain axis and impact on brain health: https://t.co/TfrbuZgWJl ”