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Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Trauma by Melissa (Missy) Bradley-Ball

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A Restored Life is Within Reach for Survivors of Sexual Trauma

The statistics are startling. Every 2 minutes in the United States, a person is a victim of a sexual assault. Over the last twenty years, 4.2 million Americans have been sexually traumatized. This is a seismic event that crosses racial, gender, and socioeconomic lines to impact every facet of a person’s being. It is at the heart of many presenting issues that clinicians encounter in their practices, including relationship challenges, substance abuse disorders, and chronic health problems. Current clinical approaches often miss the mark, overlooking the most essential and complicating factors of treatment.

This contributes to clients regressing and identifying even more strongly with their trauma.

Now there is hope for these survivors and those who love them. Melissa Bradley-Ball, an esteemed trainer and speaker on issues of trauma and resiliency, guides you through a resilience-based, multi-modal approach that emphasizes the possibility of post-traumatic growth. Help your clients identify and avoid the activation rituals in their lives. Involve the larger family as important team members in the healing process. Use proven somatic grounding, energy psychology, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients in their heroic journey toward restoration.

FOUNDATIONAL ESSENTIALS OF TRAUMA

Assessing the client’s trauma composite
Effectively and safely working with the micro and macro story
The #1 factor contributing to PTSD and long-term intimacy disruption, and how to deal with it

LEVELS OF FUNCTIONING

Victim
- Creating safety, support, therapeutic alliance, & skills
- Building the resilience bridge
Survivor
- Helping clients integrate the trauma into their life narrative
- Grieving and mourning well
Thriver
- The heroic narrative is integrated
- Trust in self and in the life process is restored

THE COMPLEXITY OF SEXUAL TRAUMA

Trauma activation rituals, trauma composites, and sexualized trauma composites
Repetition and why it happens
How to direct the ritual
Recognizing and dismantling trauma composites
Themis: the often hidden PRIMARY trauma
Somatic, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and sensory details
Sexual trauma reactivation over the course of a lifespan
Developmental (possible) “flare up” times
Medical: reactivation of sexual trauma
When medical issues mimic sexual trauma

RESILIENCY-BASED CLINICAL STRATEGIES FOR TREATING SEXUAL TRAUMA

Assessing strengths and deficits of post-traumatic growth
Considerations and implementations with different approaches
Group
Couple
Individual
Family
Setting up resources
- Somatic grounding-creating safety and resetting natural survival responses
- Energy psychology approaches
- Cognitive-behavioral approaches and creation of positive portfolios
- “Preparing the team”
- Making sense of the trauma, and finding purpose from it
  - The “heroic journey” resilience narrative
  - Utilizing movies and literature as resources
  - Assisting the client to incorporate resources from their spiritual tradition
  - Memories (micro or macro)-titrating the pain and incorporating the narrative
Adjunct Therapies
- Bodywork: Breema, Reiki, massage, acupuncture, and more
- Appropriate timing for encouraging the use of other resources
Special Topics for Consideration
- Working with sexually avoidant clients and their partners
- Working with “promiscuity”: is it trauma re-enactment?
- Working with trauma clients with BDSM lifestyles
- Working with victims of military sexual trauma and human trafficking

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.

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