Author: arath18

A Polyvagal Reflection

By arath18 in CJ 725 0 comments

I’ll be honest: when Polyvagal Theory first came up in Trauma and Intervention, my instinct was mild resistance. It felt, at first pass, like a lot of the wellness language that gets flattened into oversimplified self-help content, like “ventral vagal,” “co-regulation,” “neuroception”, terms that start to feel like a new vocabulary layered over old ideas. […]

Beyond a Single Event: Understanding Complex and Developmental Trauma

By arath18 in CJ 720 0 comments

When most people think of trauma, they imagine a discrete, identifiable event, it could a car accident, a natural disaster, a single violent incident. Much of our early clinical and diagnostic language was built around this model. PTSD, as defined in the DSM, emerged largely from observations of combat veterans and survivors of acute catastrophe. […]