Ariel Giarretto – Attachment, Trauma and Sexuality – Coming Home to the True Self

(This course is available for immediate delivery! )Through the science and heart of attachment and trauma, we’ll examine how we are physiologically designed for connection, closeness and pleasure—which is as deeply “wired” as our response to threat—as well as what happens when this nature is denied.File Size:2.3 GB Format File: 2 MP4

Ariel Giarretto – Attachment, Trauma and Sexuality – Coming Home to the True Self

For countless generations, beliefs about sex and the body have been exceedingly pejorative and condemning. Although most religions develop these mores as a necessary means of keeping social order, such ideologies have a devastating effect on our psyches, emotions and relationships with others. Abiding by these creeds necessitates a thorough disconnection from our essential nature.

Calling on my decades of experience as a trauma therapist and trainer of Somatic Experiencing, combined with extensive training in somatic sexuality, this series will address what it takes to heal our sexuality and our relationship to our gender, and to our bodies.

Through the science and heart of attachment and trauma, we’ll examine how we are physiologically designed for connection, closeness and pleasure—which is as deeply “wired” as our response to threat—as well as what happens when this nature is denied.

Through a mix of educational material, experiential exercises, reflections and homework this series will provide numerous ways of coming home to the body, finding advanced levels of pleasure and helping to identify and overcome all that gets in the way.

We will cover:

• The science and psychobiology of attachment needs
• The physiology of trauma, and how disconnection from the body prevents the resolution of past trauma
• Exercises that support fuller embodied pleasure and self-acceptance
• Ways of recovering from sexuality trauma and sexual abuse, and how to do this at a respectful pace that prevents re-traumatization

Module 1: Trauma, Attachment, Connection and Pleasure

Mar 23, 2019 11:30am – 2:00pm PDT

• The science behind how we are all designed to connect, to seek pleasure and to respond to threat or trauma
• What happens when any of these are interrupted or denied, and the parenting styles and gender stereotypes that have unknowingly created harm
• Survival involves moving away from danger, but also moving towards others for safety
• Overview of fight, flight, freeze and appease
• Exercises to help heal these early wounds
• Examining the messages we are given about gender as early as prenatally, and how these messages affect our connection to our bodies and sense of self
• Shame and abuse that occurs in formative stages of life
• Exercises and reflections towards healing from this shame and abuse

Module 2: Embodiment, Abuse, and Intimacy

Mar 24, 2019 11:30am – 2:00pm PDT

• Coming more fully into the whole self through embodied mindfulness
• What is needed to heal most gently and respectfully from sexual abuse or assault
• Importance of boundaries and embodied consent
• Tips for couples
• Working with low libido and the realities of aging

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