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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 743329" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Good luck! Have fun. (I hope.)OK. I want to offer an alternative perspective which in no way contradicts the ideas here about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). That alternative perspective is developmental trauma. The huge difference is this perspective is not pathology based. It starts from the position that there can be re-integration of capacity. And that we become stuck as early as in-utero but we can become unstuck. </p><p></p><p>If anybody is interested in this perspective, Somatic Experiencing Therapy is an organized theory and clinical treatment from that line of thinking. The originator is Peter Levine who was some sort of neuro-physicist who worked on stress, who later became a Psychologist. The other thinker from this perspective is Van der Kolk, who is a MD.</p><p></p><p>I really do not want to argue about this because it would not be good for me, so I won't. I am not saying there are not physical and temperamental and constitutional effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Drug Exposure. What I am positing is that there are early accommodations to these which have been traumatically experienced, that can be targeted by bodywork, and there can be re-accommodations that are more functional and stronger and more integrative of capacities. And even at my age I can revisit these early traumas and make new connections and live in a better way. And this is exactly what I am doing. It is not an easy thing.</p><p></p><p>But there are body-based activities that are open to everybody, like Trauma-informed Yoga, or Functional Patterns which I just learned about, that is a form of personal training, and Pilates, etc. that empower people to develop core strengths, and to ground themselves in ways that act to orient them to their lives in a different way. These are strengths-based as opposed to pathology-based.</p><p></p><p>I also happen to believe that the arts, movement, meditation and spirituality are ways to do some of the same thing.</p><p></p><p>What I am saying here Elsi, is everybody has a story. All of us are broken in some way. We have each of us characteristics, pains, limitations that were not supported by our families and by our societies. Some of this brokenness becomes the basis for the greatest of our gifts. Look at you and your life. Look at SWOT. I am thinking here of each of you whose pain and hurt has become the springboard for soaring. On this thread alone there is Tired and RN, etc. Just on this page. Our brokenness is on the same continuum. This is not categorical like Disabled or NOT. We are all the same, I argue. Except I won't argue.</p><p>This happened to my son too in 6th grade. It was traumatizing. To me, especially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 743329, member: 18958"] Good luck! Have fun. (I hope.)OK. I want to offer an alternative perspective which in no way contradicts the ideas here about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). That alternative perspective is developmental trauma. The huge difference is this perspective is not pathology based. It starts from the position that there can be re-integration of capacity. And that we become stuck as early as in-utero but we can become unstuck. If anybody is interested in this perspective, Somatic Experiencing Therapy is an organized theory and clinical treatment from that line of thinking. The originator is Peter Levine who was some sort of neuro-physicist who worked on stress, who later became a Psychologist. The other thinker from this perspective is Van der Kolk, who is a MD. I really do not want to argue about this because it would not be good for me, so I won't. I am not saying there are not physical and temperamental and constitutional effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Drug Exposure. What I am positing is that there are early accommodations to these which have been traumatically experienced, that can be targeted by bodywork, and there can be re-accommodations that are more functional and stronger and more integrative of capacities. And even at my age I can revisit these early traumas and make new connections and live in a better way. And this is exactly what I am doing. It is not an easy thing. But there are body-based activities that are open to everybody, like Trauma-informed Yoga, or Functional Patterns which I just learned about, that is a form of personal training, and Pilates, etc. that empower people to develop core strengths, and to ground themselves in ways that act to orient them to their lives in a different way. These are strengths-based as opposed to pathology-based. I also happen to believe that the arts, movement, meditation and spirituality are ways to do some of the same thing. What I am saying here Elsi, is everybody has a story. All of us are broken in some way. We have each of us characteristics, pains, limitations that were not supported by our families and by our societies. Some of this brokenness becomes the basis for the greatest of our gifts. Look at you and your life. Look at SWOT. I am thinking here of each of you whose pain and hurt has become the springboard for soaring. On this thread alone there is Tired and RN, etc. Just on this page. Our brokenness is on the same continuum. This is not categorical like Disabled or NOT. We are all the same, I argue. Except I won't argue. This happened to my son too in 6th grade. It was traumatizing. To me, especially. [/QUOTE]
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