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WE MAKE THE PATH
BY WALKING
PRESENTED BY
REBEKAH DEMIREL
ABOUT THE NORTHWEST MHTTC
PROUDLY SERVING ALASKA, IDAHO, OREGON & WASHINGTON
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES
OUR WORKFORCE
TRAINING, ONLINE
COURSES & RESOURCES
mhttcnetwork.org/northwest
INVITING TO
We use affirming, respectful and recovery-oriented language. INDIVIDUALS
LANGUAGE THAT IS: PARTICIPATING IN
THEIR OWN
STRENGTHS-BASED HEALING-CENTERED/ J O U R N E Y S .
& H O P E F U L . TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE.
RESPECTFUL,
INCLUSIVE & PERSON-FIRST & C L E A R &
ACCEPTING OF UNDERSTANDABLE.
FREE OF LABELS.
D I V E R S E
C U L T U R E S , CONSISTENT WITH
G E N D E R S , NON-JUDGMENTAL OUR ACTIONS,
PERSPECTIVES, & & AV O I D I N G P O L I C I E S , &
EXPERIENCES. ASSUMPTIONS. P R O D U C T S .
Adapted from: https://mhcc.org.au/wp-content/upload/2019/08/Recovery-Oriented-Language-Guide_2019ed_v1_20190809-Web.pdf
SUPPORT & DISCLAIMER • This work is supported by grant SM 081721 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. • The opinions expressed herein are the view of our presenter(s) and do not reflect the official position of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), SAMHSA.
TODAY’S PRESENTER
Rebekah Demirel L.Ac. MPCC
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
TRAUMA INTEGRATION PROGRAMS
We Make The Path By Walking
STRESS TEST
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021
PURPOSE, OBJECTIVE, PROCESS FOR TODAY
My Talk, Open Forum, Q&A, Self-care exercises:
• Purpose:
Support, Connect, Build Community, Share, Learn, Heal
• Objectives:
Build Personal Resilience, Feel Less Isolation, Develop Self
Care Skills
• Process:
Open Minds and Hearts, Listening To Ourselves and Others
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021
NUMBING OUT
We try to numb ourselves to pain with thoughts and behaviors....
It’s understandable.
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful
emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. Vulnerability sounds like
truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always
comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
Brene Brown
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021HOW ABOUT JOY?
• Numbing may help to kill our pain (at least for a while) but it also
kills our joy and that sucks the richness from life.
• Can we allow joy in our lives?
“Joy doesn’t betray, but sustains activism. And when you face politics
that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of
insurrection."
Rebecca Solnit
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021CYNICISM
• Pessimistic, deeply distrustful, having a sneering disbelief in sincerity,
integrity, good.
• I feel or express cynicism when I am angry, defensive and or feeling
protective of my stance.
• I might not notice it in myself, but I can see it in others.
• Seeing our cynicism means we can begin to make other choices.
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 20216, 1, 8 BREATHING
• Longer exhale than inhale activates Vagus nerve.
• Vagus nerve communicates with Sympathetic Nervous System
(fight or flight response) to down regulate and calm.
• Vagus nerve also upregulates Parasympathetic Nervous System
response (calm, digest, communicate, heal).
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021TRAUMA
• The word “trauma” comes from the Greek word for “wound”.
• A wound is painful when we are hurt.
• A wound hurts to touch.
• We like to keep wounds covered.
• Wounds can fester.
• Wounds often form scars which are rigid and inflexible.
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021FIVE ELEMENT THEORY
• Five elements relating to organs, seasons, emotions, all in relation
to each other and the meridian system.
• Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water.
• Wood - Anger, liver, Spring Green
• Fire - Over exuberance, heart, Summer, red
• Earth - Worry, spleen, Late Summer, yellow
• Metal - Grief, lungs, Autumn, white
• Water - Fear, kidney, Winter, black
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 20212020 YEAR OF THE METAL RAT
• First of twelve Chinese zodiac signs
• Metal = Lung, Grief, Autumn, White
• Rat = Extremely social, “they go everywhere”
• Rat years often have epidemic disease
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021LUNGS AND GRIEF
• Grief is hard for our society to express. Anger is more familiar…
• We think we need to “get over it”
• “Let grief change you. Grief is a way of loving that which has slipped from
view. Love is a way of grieving that which has not yet done so.”
Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise, Grief Walker
• What do you grieve? How has grief changed you?
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021STRENGHTEN LUNGS QIGONG MEDITATION
• Close your eyes
• Begin to let breath settle down
• Tongue to roof of mouth
• Breathe in white to lungs
• Exhale the sound “See ha”
• Do this three, five, or nine times
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 20212021 YEAR OF THE METAL OX
• Oxen are solid, dependable, strong
• Beasts of burden
• Break new grounds by plowing
• Make new paths
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021STRESS TEST
• Treadmill cardiac stress test evokes chest pain in a patient who
already has a suspected cardiac condition.
• Stress test doesn’t cause the condition, it stimulates what has been
dormant until a certain level of stress is experienced.
• Some stress we have is new and some was not evident due to our
ability to distract from what’s uncomfortable…
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021THE BARDO
• Tibetan term for the state of
existence between two incarnations
• Liminal time and space – transitional
• Scary? Or Full of potential? Or both?
• Change the “I” for “We” and
Illness becomes Wellness (Malcolm X)
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021BEING RADICAL
• “Latin meaning of radical is root.”
Rebecca Solnit.
• “The most radical thing we can do is to stay home.”
Gary Snyder.
• What does “staying home” mean to you?
• What does your gut tell you is most important?
S. Rebekah Demirel
www.traumaprograms.com 2021QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
LET’S CONNECT! mhttcnetwork.org/northwest https://bit.ly/NWMHTTCNewsletter northwest@mhttcnetwork.org @NorthwestMHTTC
THANKS FOR JOINING US! See you next time.
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