Traumasensible homeopathy
Trauma ?
Recovery
Literature

Traumasensible homeopathy

Trauma is damage to psychological well-being as a result of serious events that threaten a person's psychological or physical integrity. It occurs when the organism is overwhelmed in its ability to regulate a state of highest tension – caused by a strongly stressful experience – by itself.

Homeopathy starts right here: It helps the organism to improve its ability to self-regulate, and this self-regulation takes place in the autonomous nervous system.

An individually selected homeopathic remedy sooths the traumatic stress within the body. It strengthens not only the physical but also the mental immune system.

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Through my work in a practice for classical homeopathy in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I was directly confronted with post-war trauma. I was able to witness in many cases how profoundly homeopathy was able to heal both physical and psychological follow-up problems.

In order to gain in-depth knowledge about the physical and medical context of trauma, I completed a further education in 2014.

Trauma ?

The core experiences of psychological trauma are disempowerment and separation from others.

—Judith Hermann

A very good metaphor for traumatization is the image of a broken connection.

The theme of the "broken connection" runs like a red thread through the lives of those affected.
Be it in the interpersonal sphere, the family or the physical realm: the physiological response to a traumatic event is disrupting the flow of information between amygdala – a part of the limbic system and its task is to connect events with feelings and emotions – and hippocampus – the central interface of the limbic system, it is the long-term memory for the temporal, spatial and situational classification of experiences.

Thus, there is no comprehensive processing of the experience. The amygdala only records fragments such as images, sounds or smells. These items cannot be integrated into the self of a human being.

Trauma : unprocessed memories

As a result, a feeling of disconnection from personal emotions and sensations may arise – body and mind are separated.

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Trauma sequelae
Consequences of traumatic stress can appear immediately after the stressful experience or years later, on both physical, and mental level. Once a relation to such an event is established, the symptoms (according to psycho-traumatology) are called "trauma sequelae" and may manifest as:

Headaches, ear noises, stomach ache, back pain, PMS ...
Sleep and eating disorders, panic attacks, depression, anxiety ...

Such sequelae can be accompanied by an empathetic homeopathic treatment with the goal to re-establish the unity of body and mind.

Recovery

Traumatisation is a very complex theme – it thus requires various therapeutic approaches supporting each other in developing processing and recovery.

—Bessel van der Kolk

For the processing and transformation of post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotherapeutic support in combination with homeopathic accompaniment can be useful. For this, I recommend the therapy method EMDR.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. Dr Francine Shapiro from the US developed this form of psychotherapy for the treatment of trauma sequelae at the end of the 1980's.

Traumatic experiences are anchored in the brain in blocked or incompletely integrated memory networks – see therefore also the term "broken connection" under the tab "Trauma ?".
EMDR acts on the neural pathways in the brain. Through bilateral stimulation, both hemispheres of the brain are activated and synchronised in relation to a traumatic event.

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Trauma processing
A Trauma is processed and integrated when one can think and talk about it without stressing the nervous system. It becomes an experience that no longer determines one's life.

Literature

It is of great importance that the wounds are recognized and thus healed –
although scars remain.

—Judith Hermann

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Homeopathy & Trauma
The Mostar Project – Homeopathy between war and hope
Homeopaths without borders Germany

Trauma
Becoming free from the past
Francine Shapiro

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
Trauma healing
Peter A. Levine

Trauma erkennen, Folgen überwinden und an ihnen wachsen
Imagination als heilsame Kraft
Louise Reddemann

Die Narben der Gewalt
Judith Hermann

Transgenerational transmission
Das bleibt in der Familie
Sandra Konrad

PDF – The story of the palm tree

A beautiful story about the concept of "post-traumatic growth"

FILM – Yalom's Cure: A Guide to Happiness

A wonderful film about psychotherapist and writer Irvin D. Yalom