Trauma Healing Tribe

Lisa Schwarz, Creator and Developer of CRM® joins us for this first episode of The Trauma Healing Tribe! Lisa gives an overview of The Comprehensive Resource Model - that developed from a trauma treatment with a spiritual element to the aim of bringing every aspect of a human being into wholeness:The re-membering of every aspect of our existence, from our physical human structure (including in utero)  to where we've come from, and what we carry from the generational and past life lineages.The overall target of CRM® is to address the split from connection to core essence or Source - to bring wholeness and integration to our life and purpose, to love self 100% without judgment.What is contributing to the fragmentation from our essence across timelines, dimensions, lineages and species?Where in the experience of our existence can we find the disconnections from our bodies, tribe, land, intuition, our light, our lineages and Source?Choice points that perpetuate states of victim, persecutor and failed rescuer.Brain and body-based safety provided by CRM® resources to help us remember, feel fully and orient towards the broader fractal experiences of our individual and collective history.Additional resources in CRM®;  sound, external music, toning the sound of both trauma and connection, sacred geometry and ancestral resources.The centrifugal process of separating out each part, its history and intent, before the integration can happen. The challenges of this work, for client and therapist.The role of victim consciousness and the empowerment around doing work on ourselves as perpetrators in this life and our lineages.The knowledge that if we do this clearing work, we can become whole and bring healing into the collective.THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® FoundationConversations with God, by Neil Donald Walsch

Lisa joins us to talk  through how she begins work with complex clients.What is meant by a complex client?What's included in a CRM® intake.Psycho-education on dissociation, including dissociation from dissociation, multi-dimensional sources of trauma, and how resourcing works. Developing an understanding why we're doing what we're doing in the work.Getting to know how the persons system is working by; mapping parts and aspects of who they are, how they got created, what's their purpose. Working as a partner with clients.Assessing the levels of fears; of the work, of feeling, of healing, of remembering, of going crazy - and identifying the parts of the client that don't want to heal. The client's intuition and internal wisdom knows best where to start. THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® Foundation

Lisa and Elisa talk us through: The fact that the majority of time in therapy is spent working with obstacles and blocks to healing, which if not addressed, can affect the therapist's judgment of self-efficacy and of the client. The role of fear as it underlies all obstacles.Fear of becoming an adult, and the associated choice and free will around true healing. How to spot fear of being an adult, and the role of child parts of self in this fearThe fear of loss of powerHow post-traumatic symptoms and harmful choices result from powerlessness, and the desire to feel we have impact and agency. How to spot and negotiate with the client's post-traumatic seat of power, the role of validation and respect for these choices, as well as creating clarity for future choices from a free will perspective.How attachment and the post-traumatic use of power may be wired together, creating secondary gains and blocks to healingHow beliefs around being undeserving of healing, or being 'unforgivable' play out in unconscious obstacles to healing, and how to work with the roots and origins of these beliefsBlocks to remembering the truths of life, and therefore remembering the pain, both emotional and physical - how remembering the truth will impact on our relationships and free will, and how this may be defended against. The possibility of positive neurochemistry firing and wiring with the attachment to pain and to the story of what happened. The use of CRM resources to give an alternative source of attachment and therefore the possibility of healing. The importance of the client's choice to heal and CRM's stance of the therapist working alongside the client to elucidate their adult self choices. THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® Foundation

Elisa Elkin-Cleary and Lisa Schwarz join us to discuss the main points of opportunity for the therapist to evolve:The conscious and unconscious drive to become a therapist as a way of healing oneself, and the risk of unhealed mental health professionals working with clients. The responsibility on the therapist to do their own healing workThe challenge to the therapist to heal the ruptures with self, nature, lineages that otherwise will limit and compromise the ability to help the client change. Healing root intolerable pains of the truths of life that drive defence response 'symptoms' and further pain, allows the client the choice to evolve. This can only be offered if the therapist has done this work themselves. Despite doing many years of therapy, the therapist may still have unhealed survival terrors and disruptions of attachment to self, the body,  family, nature and lineages. This may impact ability of the therapist to stay embodied, and thus the client's ability to stay embodied. The need for embodiment during the therapy process to make the work 'stick' and to create the safety needed to move towards the painful roots of the client's  system. The issue of the emphasis on emotional regulation and staying in the comfort zone in traditionally-taught therapy. How CRM provides safety and regulation which makes the discomfort of healing safe enough to create real change. How the therapist's attachment to the outcome of the work may be set up to mitigate  their own fears and beliefs around failure, unlovability and need to be successful and 'ok', and how the session can be affected by the therapist's survival terrors and defences. How the CRM therapist is not the 'expert' on the client, but works alongside them, able to face the unknown and attune to what is actually in front of them. CRM supervision as a way of identifying what healing work the therapist needs to do to take their clients deeperThe reality that we are all growing and evolving and learning from the complexities of each client, and the place of supervision as a loving and respectful opportunity for the therapist to evolve.THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® Foundation

Elisa Elkin-Cleary joins us to discuss the ‘Adult Self’. She shares:What is the Adult Self?What age does one become an Adult?Why people with a trauma history struggle to develop an adult selfThe role of adultified child parts in managing the system Why it’s important for therapists to do this work in particularADULT SELF EXERCISEElisa also gives us a grounded exercise to discover the age of the part that’s working. THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® FoundationElisa's website

For this last episode of the Series 1, Lisa joins us once again to discuss Core Self:Core Self as the energetic, vibratory, non-dissociated essence of us, the everlasting 'us' that is non-doing, non-active, the state of the divine being in us. The goal is to unify Core Self as true awareness that exists whether we are incarnate are not, with an embodied state in the human experience. How and why Lisa discovered Core Self.What's it like to experience Core Self?The Core Self Training - how to work with and clear the belief systems and splits that block the re-membering of Core Self; e.g. beliefs around not being deserving or being unforgivable, as well as generational material and dissociated parts. The teaching also shows participants how and when they might use Core Self awareness.The main uses of Core Self in the therapeutic process and daily life.Core Self as an opportunity to live in integrity, and a way to turn towards self, other and Source.THE CRM® TRAINING & USEFUL LINKSThe Comprehensive Resource Model® websiteCRM® Training ModulesCRM® Training ScheduleDonate to the CRM® Foundation

Matthew Green and Lisa Schwarz explore these key aspects of healing generational trauma:All present-day trauma can be understood  as having generational and collective roots, and shows itself in the endless replaying of victim, perpetrator and failed rescuer dynamicsTo provide successful generational healing that sticks, the therapist must help the client interweave the narrative with the emotional and somatic memories The need for the client to be as fully embodied as possible to have more capacity and processing ability for the more multi-dimensional work.Spotting red flags for the need for generational work - including addictions, pervasive victimhood stance, perpetration dynamics, and medical and psychological symptoms that are non-responsive to regular treatmentThe need for the therapist to be aware of how generational trauma creates obstacles and blocks to healing.The requirement for the therapist to do their own work, to perceive clearly what needs attention in their clients' presentations.The therapist's need for energetic protections and use of resources to mitigate against any less-than-beneficial generational material exposure.ABOUT MATTHEW GREENMatthew Green is a journalist and author of Aftershock: Fighting war, survivng trauma and finding peace, which documents the struggles of military veterans seeking new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a co-host of the forthcoming Collective Trauma Summit 2023 and writes Resonant World, a newsletter supporting the global movement to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.Subscribe to his newsletter here >

Lisa and Matthew pick up their conversation to talk about healing through the remembering of generational resources.The re-membering of the ancestral resources as a way in which trauma clearing can occur, when clarity of intention and language is usedAs part of best practice, the need for the therapist to clear at least the majority of their generational wounds, to maintain discernment, accountability and impeccability.The life enriching benefits of ancestral reconnection and relationship, including experience of unity consciousness and highest expressions of love.The need for the therapist to have ongoing contact with their own ancestors in order to provide effective generational work - as a vital part of the healing team The scale of the global issues we face today as a symptom of generational trauma within the very structures of our societyCRM's aims to bring safe, accessible, effective generational healing to large groups - scaling up the work to match the scale of our world's challenges.ABOUT MATTHEW GREENMatthew Green is a journalist and author of Aftershock: Fighting war, survivng trauma and finding peace, which documents the struggles of military veterans seeking new ways to heal from psychological injuries. He is a co-host of the forthcoming Collective Trauma Summit 2023 and writes Resonant World, a newsletter supporting the global movement to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.Subscribe to his newsletter here >

Ron Schwenkler talks us through what resourcing is  and what happens when it’s an integral part of therapy.He explains:How intolerable affect sets up coping and defence mechanisms How CRM resourcing activates the dormant neurobiology of secure attachment and safety in order to be able to approach and process affect. Resourcing as a way of not just regulating, but optimising the system. Resourcing as a skill to facilitate approach towards process, rather than add-on technique to merely contain the client's affect.By interweaving resource threads throughout the client's trauma material, the client can grow in confidence and agency to move towards, face and process what has been previously avoided.Using the full resource model of CRM to challenge secondary gains and to inspire the client to see change as a way to facilitate their long-held dreamsDr. Ron Schwenkler, has been in the mental health community for 27 years. He is currently located in Denver, Colorado, where he is clinical Director of an outpatient psychiatric clinic that utilizes resourcing as a corner stone of the clinics philosophy.Website: www.mindspadenver.com

Jennifer talks us through the therapeutic use of ketamine in her practice:The history of ketamine as an anaesthetic, and at very low doses its off-label uses for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, eating disorders and OCD.The potential for heart opened, expanded states through the use of psychedelics, including ketamineHow her experiences treating both community and individuals suffering with PTSD led her to CRM as a uniquely effective mind-body modalityThe potential ability of ketamine-assisted therapy to expedite the healing in profound waysThe requirement for trust, attunement and safety, including neurobiological safety developed through the CRM work.How ketamine assists openness and the dropping away of social defences, and protector parts, allowing  self observation and deep shiftsThe necessity for therapeutic integration and consolidation of the new realisations and connections from the expanded state back into everyday lifeABOUT JENNIFER PHELPS, MD, MS.Jenny is a physician Board Certified in both Family Practice and Integrative Medicine. Her 30 year career has spanned a variety of practice settings including primary care, functional medicine and integrative medicine. She is certified in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Research, Mind Body Medicine, Comprehensive Resource Model, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and has worked with both individuals and circle groups from populations traumatized by natural disasters, school shootings and war. Jenny holds a unique perspective and understanding of the tremendous value of connecting and healing in community. Her current work combining psychedelic medicines and mind body medicine in circle groups creates a path for healing on a wider scale.Connect with her on LinkedIn >

Liz Crawford joins us to share her experience of a healing intensive with Lisa. She highlights key points in her experience:How having the space to work deeply in extended sessions over the intensive differed from weekly sessionsThe additional impact of the Cape May ocean environment for the sense of self in broader contextThe capacity within CRM to process the fear of approaching difficult material, and from there to process previously unbearable pains at the root. The change in ability to love and understand past and present self, and to experience that love and trust as possible in other relationshipsThe ability to use the CRM resourcing scaffold to care for younger parts of self The CRM resourcing that enables the confidence to turn towards oneself and one's material unconditionally.

Pierre Montpeyroux talks about:His background as spiritual seeker, leading to extensive explorations into meditation and other techniques to assist enlightenment.How Lisa Schwarz's authenticity and personal journey inspired him to go deeper into his personal work, including shadow work and his soul's journey.The capacity for CRM to not only bring clarity to trauma from different timelines, species, lineages and dimensions, but to transmute and clear it fairly quickly. The ability for CRM to  help access love from Source to a greater degree, by clearing deep roots and hidden aspects of past traumas.How the effects of triggering in his daily life challenges are reduced, and how compassion, love and emotional freedom are more available, to himself and those he works withHis learning that the more open he is to possibility, the more can change.The ability of CRM tools to aid the transmutation of trauma, with the continuing evolution of therapy to be faster, deeper and more efficient.