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About the Author

About Dawson Church Dawson Church, PhD, is the author the award-winning and best-selling book The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention. He is a graduate of Baylor University (Mass Media) and Holos University (Integrative Healthcare) and is certified in Energy Psychology (CEHP #2016). He is the editor of the …

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Psychological Trauma: Healing Its Roots in Brain, Body, and Memory

Dawson Church, PhD Published by Energy Psychology Press 3340 Fulton Rd., #442, Fulton, CA 95439 www.energypsychologypress.com ISBN# 978-1-60415-261-6 © 2015 Energy Psychology Press This publication demonstrates an impressive personal improvement tool. It is not a substitute for training in psychology or psychotherapy. Nothing contained herein is meant to replace qualified medical advice. The author urges …

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PART ONE: Psychological Trauma: Healing Its Roots in Body, Brain and Memory

Download PDF Psychological Trauma book Optional: Purchase a hard copy of Psychological Trauma: Healing Its Roots in Body, Brain and Memory Tap Along Videos Tap Along #224 Cindy My Husband Had An Affair Core Belief: “I’m too old to get past this.” Visual Aspect: “I saw the phone calls on the phone bill.” Breakthrough: “I am …

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Summary

  An event is characterized as traumatic when: 1) the person perceives it as a threat to her or his physical survival; 2) it overwhelms the individual’s coping capacity, producing a sense of powerlessness; 3) it produces a feeling of isolation and aloneness; and 4) it violates the person’s expectations. Psychological trauma is not a merely psychological problem. High stress …

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Death in Vietnam: Joe’s Story

     A striking example of memory reconsolidation comes from “Joe,” a disabled veteran with PTSD and multiple physical symptoms. During one of the six free sessions he received from his EFT practitioner after enrolling in the Veteran’s Stress Project, Joe shared one of his most disturbing intrusive memories. His best friend, Ted, had been …

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Memory Reconsolidation and Extinction

     Until the early 2000s, the prevailing view in neuroscience was that, once an experience had been installed in long-term memory, it was difficult or impossible to change (Ecker, Ticic, & Hulley, 2012). Beliefs about the self and the world formed in early childhood through strong negative emotional associations were “locked into the brain …

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