Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: an Interview with Babette Rothschild; Copyright 2002 Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol. 8, no. 2, February 2002
The original 6-column table contributes a more nuanced and user-friendly understanding of the Autonomic Nervous System, including the integration of theories of Peter Levine and Stephen Porges.
In the final key, Babette recommends finding ways to overcome the effects of trauma by making a contribution to others when possible.
Getting the body moving is a strategy used by many people who are affected by stress. Babette explains how and when it can be helpful in recovery from trauma.
Babette underlines the importance of taking the path of recovery one small set at a time.
Continuing with fifth if the 8 Keys To Safe Trauma Recovery Babette discusses the isolating emotion of shame and the need that trauma survivors commonly have both for contact and for fairly apportioning responsibility and blame.
Undoing the effects of self-blame, and understanding what really happens to brain and body under the impact of trauma, are part of the fifth of the 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery. Babette explains the importance of recognising your limitations and seeing them with compassion.
Flashbacks are one of the most dramatic and troubling of the many symptoms experienced by those who have undergone trauma. Babette describes how you can learn to bring them under control in the fourth of the 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery.
In the third of the keys from 8 Keys To Safe trauma Recovery Babette explains that you can improve your quality of life and progress in your recovery without being obliged to relieve painful, even unbearable, memories.
"Plot your course with mindfulness " is the first of the 8 Keys To Safe Trauma Recovery. In this interview with Michael Gavin, Editor of the safetraumarecovery.com website, Babette explains how it can be applied by people affected by trauma and PTSD to take charge of their own healing process, and improve their quality of life.
Take charge of your recovery from trauma.
"Begin with your epilogue - you made it" Babette describes the second of the 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery, explaining that trauma survivors often do not believe and feel as if they really did survive, and how liberating this realisation - "It really is over! "- can be in your recovery.
