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Tara Lumpkin, PhD, is a medical and environmental anthropologist, who has worked and lived with people from other cultures in Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and North America for over twenty-five years. This has allowed her to learn about the many ways that people heal and become well. Tara spent over a year in Namibia, Africa, working with traditional healers and community members under the auspices of the Namibian Ministry of Health and the United Nations Children's Fund. During this time, she became particularly interested in the relationship between healing, humans, animals, and the environment. In addition, she has studied nature awareness, outdoor survival skills, nature philosophy, and healing with Tom Brown, Jr., founder of the Tracker School. Later she attended courses in shamanism at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Tara has worked in post-genocide
Rwanda for the United States Agency for International Development
aiding in the creation of an ethno-justice system. She then returned
to Rwanda to work with genocide orphans on a photography project
to help the children cope with the trauma they had experienced.
The children's photographs have been exhibited worldwide. |
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Common Trauma Symptoms • anxiety & panic attacks
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Somatic Experiencing Somatic Experiencing is an awareness-based approach to healing both the psyche and physical body by getting in touch with our inner-nature. Most of us have experienced challenging emotional or physical episodes in our lives. Such events can be as “simple” as a sports injury, as “complex” as years of childhood abuse, or as “severe” as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some examples of difficult experiences are: surgery, accidents, dysfunctional childhoods, domestic violence, war, and natural disasters. As adults and children we may not even register an event as something that will negatively affect us at a future date. Many of the symptoms take years to appear and when they do we may not connect them with any particular experience itself. Nevertheless, these negative experiences become locked in our nervous systems and the neural network pathways of our brains. Children, in particular, are vulnerable to negative experiences that might appear minor to an adult. Somatic Experiencing allows us to touch difficult experiences and access the physical and emotional sensations around them. Once we have opened ourselves to these sensations, they are released and, in this process, we are healed. |
| The Process Although it may be helpful to talk briefly about an event or symptoms, this is not psychotherapy or "talk therapy." You do not tell your story or "relive" the traumatic event. Nor do you have to remember any traumatic event. We will work with patterns in the body and with the nervous system's reaction to perceived threat to begin healing. You will be asked to sit in a chair facing the practitioner. Initially, we will concentrate on building "resources." Resources are what make you feel safe, energized, alive, and happy. When you are in a resourced place, we will gently approach past patterns, symptoms and trauma through methods developed by Somatic Experiencing. You will be coached to pay attention to your internal sensations and experiences. There is often a physical sensation of trembling and emotional release, which is the "discharge" of energy from the nervous system that was frozen in the body during the actual trauma. You may feel tired and need to rest following your session, which will allow your nervous system to recover.
Testimonials My Somatic Experiencing sessions with
Dr. Lumpkin have been effective in helping me to release old
traumatic patterns and layers of fear, resulting in new perspectives
and positive changes in my life. Dr. Lumpkin is a compassionate,
intelligent, and creative Somatic Experiencing practitioner
who draws on both her logical and intuitive faculties to facilitate
sessions with clear outcomes. |
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