I find it extraordinary how under viewed your important work is, especially considering trauma healing is all the rage now. You're one of the best. I only found you by doing my own search in the interest of healing my mother wound, knowing of the "death mother" archetype from reading Robert Bly's work decades ago. I wish I'd addressed the mother wound long ago, but one's mother is held in such regard I didn't realize until middle age what a gnawing cancer it has been, that's deeply affected my relationships with women in adulthood.
Thank you for a profound, informative and embodied lecture. There were various verbal and non verbal layers in which I experienced the new information that was transmitted in this lecture. The intellectual explanation framed and contained the topic verbally, at the same time that the images encapsulated, with the utmost simplicity, the poignancy of how deeply human beings can experience trauma. Congratulations on handling such a difficult theme with so much presence, knowledge and lightness of touch.
Dear Punita, thank you so much for your comments. I am really moved that you were touched at both verbal and non-verbal levels and I love how you experienced the 'intellectual frame' containing the 'poignancy' of our deeply lived experienced. In a way that has been my journey - to move between those two. So its very moving to have that articulated by another person.
You are so clear on so many really immense issues ...in just one hour your brilliant talk lays out difficult truths so eloquently and brings so much to light ...I am also very grateful to my friend who sent me the link today so I could share your talk ..... thank you
thank you very much great talk. As a person who came from a trauma childhood and now a Dance Movement/Psychotherapist it is one of the most straight ward and clear talks I have heard. blessings to you
Maria, thank you so much for your comment. Given your own childhood experience, and the fact that you are now a therapist, I'm really humbled that this was of value to you.
I have done a lot of authentic movement myself with Tina Stromsted and the BodySoul Rhythms workshops which were created by Marion Woodman and Mary Hamilton (a dancer) and Ann Skinner (a voice coach). So I've danced elements of this myself - and its been very powerful in getting to know these dynamics in an embodied way. But not in terms of working with others.
Brilliant and accessible talk showing how painful emotional experiences shape our internal world. Daniela looks at the way anthropology and psychotherapy intersect, and how our reactions are sometimes evolutionary adaptations that are now out of date in survival terms but can help explain why we feel the way we feel.
Dear Jane, Thank you. I really appreciate your comment. The evolutionary perspective has helped me frame my own experiences with more compassion so its really moving to see somebody else valuing this aspect of my work too.
Daniela--Really well thought out and beautifully presented talk. The examples you offer illuminate the full meaning of what you speak about. As a Jungian Analyst, your work has helped me in my clinical work. I find your formulation of the concept of the "trauma world" useful because it offers a containing name to the "place" into which we fall when triggered by a trauma. Thank you for your work and your wonderful book.
absolutely wonderful talk. You managed to encapsulate so much into that one hour session.. I couldnt agree more with all that you say...I had years of therapy. I identify with everything you say and I have passed this video onto lots of people who I think may benefit...Thank you so much
Dear Bernadette, Thank you so much for this. I'm just beginning to explore social media and was a bit nervous about posting this, so I'm very moved by your reaction, and humbled that you will pass this on.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and to comment. TH-cam can feel like a bit of a black hole (I'm a beginner) so its really lovely to have feedback!
Authentic, captivating and evocative. Thankyou so much for sharing such insight. This has helped in many, many ways. Time for reflection. Kindest regards.
Your'e more than welcome. After many, many years of personal therapy, your ideas have offered me clarity that I have never experienced. I can now also think about what you have said with my client work. I cannot wait to get your book. Kindest Amie
A very useful, proactive and friendly way to understand, and more importantly address, personal trauma. I head a research team in this area and will use Dr Sieff's video and book within that remit. So many 'experts' work only through other academics or from a purely theoretical base. Sieff's work is both personal and professional, she understands her subject and has lived it. This film will genuine help people deal with some of the worst experiences in their lives. It is worth an hour of anyone's time.
Thank you Paul, I really appreciate that. One of my goals is to interweave the academic with lived expereince so I'm especially moved by you picking up on that. Also, its humbling to hear that you will use this (and my book) within your research team.
Is very good thank you. I think trauma does have an end. If it had a beginning then it will have an end. And it may not take a lifetime to end. We have adverse experiences but in one day and perhaps one event triggers and imprints the original trauma. If true then trauma can be reversed in more or less the same amount of time. This is my best guess.
Thank you for your thoughts. I'm glad you found it interesting. In my experience some trauma has an end but a lot doesn't. The 'end' is about how we adapt to our wounds and find ways to support them. Physical analogies help me. Many years ago my Achilles tendon snapped. It was sewn back together and I was in a cast for ages and then had to learn to walk again. It was year before I could run. But, because my sewn together tendon was now shorter than the one on the other side, my running is uneven and in the long term that has caused problems. My snapped Achilles, even though it was repaired almost immediately (which does not happen with emotional trauma) will never return to how it was before the damage. And, in my experience, some aspects of emotional wounding are similar. So, for me, healing is in part about self-acceptance, relating to our damaged selves with compassion and building up the scaffold that will help us hold the damage.
@@DanielaSieffPhD Well said and self-compassion is key. Trauma is hard wired into our body but is not our body. Just like how to walk is in our body but is not our body. Walking, sitting, eating with a spoon are habits of moving the body automatically with no conscious thought needed. And so is trauma. LOL Well this is what I came up with. ACEs Immunity Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) The way children get wounded or imprinted is very simple. What was done to you as a child you then internalize and do that to yourself for the rest of your life. Mom feeds you with a spoon. At some point, you take the spoon and from then on feed yourself for life. Same with clothes and same with whatever is going on in your house. These imprints form your actions and reactions of how you walk, talk, sit and move so are very much felt as “you” in your body. This is your subconscious mind and habits and are very strong. Is very much software programming and imprinting. My ACEs Immunity reverse this process with 4 exercises designed to use the body imagination and emotions in a way that re-educated the body and mind, emotions and psyche ( words ) or Psycho Neurolinguistic Re-Edu Kinesiology. This is also simple and easy to do. I can teach in a workshop format all 4 exercises in around 4 hours to adults or children. The best would be to teach this to adults who work with children as this 4 hour workshop could be done once a month or so for a school year. Repetition is very powerful and needed. Know this that the average amount to times a child is told “ NO “ in America is 56,000 times. This is a lot of denial messages and also gets imprinted into the body and nerves of the child. Short video play list and over views of ACEs Immunity on youtube th-cam.com/play/PLmHZR-DlCRWMAgIhMEKCry7UgVofa0J-P.html
For those who want to know more about my work, you can sign up to a newslettter at www.danielasieff.com/ - I also have a FB page where I post updates, as well as things that interet me: facebook.com/DanielaSieff.PublicPage. - You can access other talks and download papers I've written from: www.danielasieff.com/ (& then go to publications)
I find it extraordinary how under viewed your important work is, especially considering trauma healing is all the rage now. You're one of the best.
I only found you by doing my own search in the interest of healing my mother wound, knowing of the "death mother" archetype from reading Robert Bly's work decades ago.
I wish I'd addressed the mother wound long ago, but one's mother is held in such regard I didn't realize until middle age what a gnawing cancer it has been, that's deeply affected my relationships with women in adulthood.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate this comment. I am writing more so hope that will be helpful in time.
Thank you for a profound, informative and embodied lecture. There were various verbal and non verbal layers in which I experienced the new information that was transmitted in this lecture. The intellectual explanation framed and contained the topic verbally, at the same time that the images encapsulated, with the utmost simplicity, the poignancy of how deeply human beings can experience trauma. Congratulations on handling such a difficult theme with so much presence, knowledge and lightness of touch.
Dear Punita, thank you so much for your comments. I am really moved that you were touched at both verbal and non-verbal levels and I love how you experienced the 'intellectual frame' containing the 'poignancy' of our deeply lived experienced. In a way that has been my journey - to move between those two. So its very moving to have that articulated by another person.
You are so clear on so many really immense issues ...in just one hour your brilliant talk lays out difficult truths so eloquently and brings so much to light ...I am also very grateful to my friend who sent me the link today so I could share your talk ..... thank you
Thank you again Julie - lovley to have that feedback in more depth.
thank you very much great talk. As a person who came from a trauma childhood and now a Dance Movement/Psychotherapist it is one of the most straight ward and clear talks I have heard. blessings to you
Maria, thank you so much for your comment. Given your own childhood experience, and the fact that you are now a therapist, I'm really humbled that this was of value to you.
Your very welcome. love to meet you one day and I will buy your book.
Hope you enjoy the book and hope to meet you too!
have you ever collaborated with a Dance Movement Theapsit. The way you describe everything could be danced!
I have done a lot of authentic movement myself with Tina Stromsted and the BodySoul Rhythms workshops which were created by Marion Woodman and Mary Hamilton (a dancer) and Ann Skinner (a voice coach). So I've danced elements of this myself - and its been very powerful in getting to know these dynamics in an embodied way. But not in terms of working with others.
Brilliant and accessible talk showing how painful emotional experiences shape our internal world. Daniela looks at the way anthropology and psychotherapy intersect, and how our reactions are sometimes evolutionary adaptations that are now out of date in survival terms but can help explain why we feel the way we feel.
Dear Jane, Thank you. I really appreciate your comment. The evolutionary perspective has helped me frame my own experiences with more compassion so its really moving to see somebody else valuing this aspect of my work too.
Daniela--Really well thought out and beautifully presented talk. The examples you offer illuminate the full meaning of what you speak about. As a Jungian Analyst, your work has helped me in my clinical work. I find your formulation of the concept of the "trauma world" useful because it offers a containing name to the "place" into which we fall when triggered by a trauma. Thank you for your work and your wonderful book.
Dear Gail, Thank you so much. I really do appreciate that coming from you.
absolutely wonderful talk. You managed to encapsulate so much into that one hour session.. I couldnt agree more with all that you say...I had years of therapy. I identify with everything you say and I have passed this video onto lots of people who I think may benefit...Thank you so much
Dear Bernadette, Thank you so much for this. I'm just beginning to explore social media and was a bit nervous about posting this, so I'm very moved by your reaction, and humbled that you will pass this on.
Fantastic work ...thank you
Thank you for taking the time to watch and to comment. TH-cam can feel like a bit of a black hole (I'm a beginner) so its really lovely to have feedback!
Thank you for sharing this excellent talk. C.
Thank you so much for this comment - I really appreciate it.
Authentic, captivating and evocative. Thankyou so much for sharing such insight. This has helped in many, many ways. Time for reflection. Kindest regards.
Amie, thank you so much for your comment. Its really meaningful to know that the ideas that have helped me offer things to others. Best, Daniela
Your'e more than welcome. After many, many years of personal therapy, your ideas have offered me clarity that I have never experienced. I can now also think about what you have said with my client work. I cannot wait to get your book. Kindest Amie
Great talk, with many pearls of wisdom. An hour well spent!
Thank you Ade, I do appreciate your support.
A very useful, proactive and friendly way to understand, and more importantly address, personal trauma. I head a research team in this area and will use Dr Sieff's video and book within that remit. So many 'experts' work only through other academics or from a purely theoretical base. Sieff's work is both personal and professional, she understands her subject and has lived it. This film will genuine help people deal with some of the worst experiences in their lives. It is worth an hour of anyone's time.
Thank you Paul, I really appreciate that. One of my goals is to interweave the academic with lived expereince so I'm especially moved by you picking up on that. Also, its humbling to hear that you will use this (and my book) within your research team.
Thank you!!
You are welcome... Thank you for your encouraging comment.
Thank God for Thais Gibson at University Personal Development, it is a great help for all attachment styles.
we must understand how the unconscious process emotions and what the meaning behind the emotions and how to handle them to heal
Absolutely.. and we must give ourselves time - no quick road to that understanding!
Is very good thank you. I think trauma does have an end. If it had a beginning then it will have an end. And it may not take a lifetime to end. We have adverse experiences but in one day and perhaps one event triggers and imprints the original trauma. If true then trauma can be reversed in more or less the same amount of time. This is my best guess.
Thank you for your thoughts. I'm glad you found it interesting. In my experience some trauma has an end but a lot doesn't. The 'end' is about how we adapt to our wounds and find ways to support them. Physical analogies help me. Many years ago my Achilles tendon snapped. It was sewn back together and I was in a cast for ages and then had to learn to walk again. It was year before I could run. But, because my sewn together tendon was now shorter than the one on the other side, my running is uneven and in the long term that has caused problems. My snapped Achilles, even though it was repaired almost immediately (which does not happen with emotional trauma) will never return to how it was before the damage. And, in my experience, some aspects of emotional wounding are similar. So, for me, healing is in part about self-acceptance, relating to our damaged selves with compassion and building up the scaffold that will help us hold the damage.
@@DanielaSieffPhD Well said and self-compassion is key. Trauma is hard wired into our body but is not our body. Just like how to walk is in our body but is not our body. Walking, sitting, eating with a spoon are habits of moving the body automatically with no conscious thought needed. And so is trauma. LOL Well this is what I came up with. ACEs Immunity Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
The way children get wounded or imprinted is very simple. What was done to you as a child you then internalize and do that to yourself for the rest of your life. Mom feeds you with a spoon. At some point, you take the spoon and from then on feed yourself for life. Same with clothes and same with whatever is going on in your house. These imprints form your actions and reactions of how you walk, talk, sit and move so are very much felt as “you” in your body. This is your subconscious mind and habits and are very strong. Is very much software programming and imprinting.
My ACEs Immunity reverse this process with 4 exercises designed to use the body imagination and emotions in a way that re-educated the body and mind, emotions and psyche ( words ) or Psycho Neurolinguistic Re-Edu Kinesiology. This is also simple and easy to do. I can teach in a workshop format all 4 exercises in around 4 hours to adults or children. The best would be to teach this to adults who work with children as this 4 hour workshop could be done once a month or so for a school year. Repetition is very powerful and needed. Know this that the average amount to times a child is told “ NO “ in America is 56,000 times. This is a lot of denial messages and also gets imprinted into the body and nerves of the child.
Short video play list and over views of ACEs Immunity on youtube
th-cam.com/play/PLmHZR-DlCRWMAgIhMEKCry7UgVofa0J-P.html
For those who want to know more about my work, you can sign up to a newslettter at www.danielasieff.com/
- I also have a FB page where I post updates, as well as things that interet me: facebook.com/DanielaSieff.PublicPage.
- You can access other talks and download papers I've written from: www.danielasieff.com/ (& then go to publications)