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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

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5 Aug

Trauma Informed Care works because it is about survival, in this reality, and the potential to reach wellbeing, which is exactly what our system is designed to do, when our needs are met and we drop beliefs that keep us stuck in intergenerational trauma. It is not a one man job.

It takes a village to raise a child. Trauma Informed Care cuts through our name, age, gender, skin colour, privilege, culture, religion, laws, government, nationhood, because every person needs safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment.

We can keep all of the above, but they must be understood as secondary. Life is primary. It is what connects us to all. And yet modern civilisation is so far detached from reality. The reason we are in the mess we are in now is because we have abandoned the basics of life.

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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

@drlouisehansen

5 Aug

I bought the domain name ‘Trauma Informed World’. A website for my threads and tools for wellbeing. The purpose of the website is to turn trauma informed frameworks into mindsets for personal, social and political change. #HealingTrauma #Justice4Australia #WeAllBelong

My threads highlight the difference between Trauma Informed Care and traditional Psychiatry. For example, safety vs danger, reality vs imagination and helpful vs harmful compared to endless division and pathology. The importance of both categorial (i.e. depression vs anxiety)

and continuum lenses (i.e. we are all along this continuum and there is room to move). My threads bridge the gap between injustice vs trauma, insanity vs sanity, patient vs professional, Psychology vs Wisdom Traditions. A common humanity (i.e. reality) is vital for world peace.

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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

@drlouisehansen

2 Aug

Why the divide and conquer mindset? Since we know it kills countless lives? It has destroyed this planet? Most people would agree that human being always want more. We consume, consume, consume. Then we consume some more. 1/20 #HealingTrauma

What most humans beings do not realise, is that we do not want more. What we are really after is all: Freedom. Except we can never have “all” physically or psychologically. Why not? Our body has a boundary. Our mind also has a boundary. 2/20

The boundary is what makes you, you, and me, me. So we cannot have “all” when you are half and I am the other half. Despite this, we persist endlessly. We divide and conquer: “I want the best job. The best house. 3/20

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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

@drlouisehansen

28 Jul

Three Phase Approach to Healing Trauma: Some trauma experts say it is dangerous to open pandora’s box. Some reasons: psychosis, sessions are not long enough, there are not enough sessions, or we have to return to a dangerous environment, 1/38 #HealingTrauma

vulnerable and have not yet established a sense of stability, clarity, the ability to regulate our emotions, or connection and belonging. So for such reasons there is a Three Phase Approach to Trauma:

1.Safety and Stabilisation
2.Processing
3.Integration 2/38

Safety and Stabilisation: This involves learning trauma informed tools for wellbeing. These tools help us to be grounded so we do not get “flooded”. What is “flooded”? There is an expression in the field of trauma: “Be with it, but not in it.” 3/38

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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

@drlouisehansen

27 Jul

Do five world views help or harm Australia in the 21st century? I live and breathe Psychology: I’ve taught it at University. I’m a front liner for First Nations in community. I have a lived experience of Psychosis. We absolutely can recover. 1/27 #HealingTrauma

So it breaks my heart to see someone who can’t call Australia home.

We all belong. #WeAllBelong

Addiction illustrates this beautifully: Renowned addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate says: “The first question you must ask is not why the addiction, but why the pain?” 2/27

If we wanted to created a system that makes addiction worse, that further disconnects someone, then you would design exactly the system we have: punishment, shame, stigma, isolation, disconnection. Ingredients for trauma. This is Australia’s home. 3/27

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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

@drlouisehansen

27 Jul

What is Intimacy and Play?

So, for simplicity, try conceptualise mental illness as living within our threat system (i.e. fight, flight, freeze, or collapse). Think of depression as freeze or collapse; anger, anxiety, terror as fight or flight. 1/12 #HealingTrauma

Remember threat system is only intended for a real life and death threat. So the two fundamental questions to ask are:

1. Is this moment safe or dangerous?
2. Is this moment real or my imagination? 2/12

We need to get good at telling the difference between danger vs safety. Between imagination vs reality. That’s pretty much it. 3/12

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