Tag: trauma healing

META-Health is a Trauma-Informed Practice

Prof Bessel van der Kolk
I recently attended a seminar on trauma, presented by Professor Bessel van der Kolk who spent many decades of his life as clinical psychiatrist researching and treating the impact of emotional adverse events on the brains and bodies of children and adults. I find that his work validates the understanding of UDIN experiences (unexpected, dramatic, isolating, no strategy) as triggers for changes in the brain, that META-Health adopted from Dr Ryke Geert Hamer. Also, Hamer’s concept of conflict constellations creating Meta-programs that shape or alter our personality shone through Bessel’s presentation. Let me explain.

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Freeze or Super Powers?

META-Health uses cutting-edge scientific findings and models to explore and explain stress-related diseases and various symptoms in their social-emotional context.

A base for this is the model of the 5 biological laws of nature which describes the dynamic process of self-healing after stress and trauma: the intelligent body adapts temporarily to exceptional needs – a necessary reaction that leads to be counterbalanced in the regeneration phase after the threat is gone. Continue reading →

Informed choices and that gut feeling

Angelina JolieThe media and discussions these days are filled with the preventive double mastectomy of Angelina Jolie. Comments range from acclaim for her courage and consistency, shock about voluntary self-mutilation with dubious sense, up to the representation of the famous actress as a pawn and figurehead for corporations who make money on such measures.

In her own opinion, published in the New York Times [1], she describes the reasons for her decision: her mother had died after 10 years of battle with breast cancer at age 56 – therefore Jolie let her genes be tested, whereby mutation of the “breast cancer gene” BRCA1 was detected. Her physicians estimated her risk of developing breast cancer at 87%. Continue reading →