While I typically share recovery stories, I mixed it up this time with an expert Q&A! Nervous system healing expert and CFS School co-founder Karden Rabin came on my channel to answer key questions about Somatics, how this modality is different from traditional top-down brain retraining, how it fits in, and other important q’s for those healing from chronic illness. TIMESTAMPS:
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Getting out the jitters
0:05 Intro
1:00 Definition of Somatics
3:00 Peter Levine’s somatic experiencing
3:26 Making sense of it with Chesire the cat
6:19 Examples of different somatic practices
7:20 Why somatic practices are effective, Karden talks about the Vagus nerve and polyvagal system
8:42 We’re not built for overstimulation, a deer joke
10:52 People don’t know how to feel
12:46 What really causes chronic illnesses like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to develop? Karden’s hypothesis. (Note: I appreciate different perspectives – this is not an endorsement of one perspective over another.)
18:02 What Karden theorizes causes the Cell Danger Response
19:37 Liz: But I didn’t have big T trauma. I did experience this though. Karden responds.
21:37 Liz: The one thing I never had in common with most people with chronic illness or so it seems. But I think I’m not alone!
22:05 Karden gives me (Liz) advice on the proper expression of anger (Thanks Karden)
24:47 Karden says do this instead when triggered / activated
26:54 Powerful words
27:41 How can a top-down brain retraining approach fit with Somatics?
30:05 Why brain retraining isn’t just positive thinking — Karden made me realize it works when THIS happens
33:43 Karden’s candid thoughts on other “positivity only” brain retraining programs
37:45 When positive state shifting can help
38:00 The structure of CFS School with Karden Rabin and Jen Mann
42:17 Karden’s final messages to people listening
46:37 Thank you and Goodbyes.
Guest bio: Karden Rabin is a Nervous System Medicine Practitioner and co-founder of Chronic Fatigue School. Over the last 15 years he has combined principles of bodywork, brain retraining, and somatic trauma therapies to help thousands of clients all over the world heal from chronic pain and illness. He is a regular contributor to Bessel Van Der Kolk’s Trauma Research Foundation Blog and YouTube channel and has led programming for The Wounded Warrior Project, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and Starbucks.
Karden’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/kardenrabin
Karden’s website: http://kardenrabin.com/
CFS School: https://chronicfatigueschool.com
My previous interview with Jennifer Mann, co-founder of CFS School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ65OCqlJqw
Karden’s “origin” story: https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/the-making-of-a-mindbody-practitioner/
Written transcript coming soon on https://healwithliz.com.
*New: CFS Recovery Programs Guide by Heal With Liz & Lindsay Vine*
https://healwithliz.com/programs-guide (An independent review of CFS school is included in our guide!)
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