"Treating Trauma" webinar

Wednesday evening, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. EDT

Okay, friends … I’m sending out an early notice so you’ll have plenty of time to set aside everything else on your calendar and make room for this event next Wednesday. 😄

As we continue our series of Zoom webinars tied to chapters in Good Eye, Bad Eye, I feel like this one has the potential to offer the most help to the most people. For that reason, in the spirit of healing trauma, I’m opening it up to a wider audience.

If you know someone who might benefit from learning about trauma and how therapists treat it … maybe someone you know who is suffering … someone who could use a glimmer of hope … please share this flyer with them.

In Chapter 7 of the book, “The Brain’s Smoke Alarm,” you read about the neurobiology of trauma—how our brains respond to challenging experiences. Later this week, in Chapter 14, “Kintsukuroi,” you will read more about trauma and how I treat it in my psychotherapy patients.

Next Wednesday’s webinar will give you a front-row seat to what goes on in the therapy room. My guest is a trauma therapist in New Jersey with 30 years experience. Martha is a certified Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, which means that she uses the body’s responses to resolve traumatic memories. During our webinar, Martha will answer your questions about trauma and—get ready for this!—I’ll be her patient for a brief demonstration of what Somatic Experiencing® looks like in practice.

Martha’s vast experience in this field is the main reason I asked her to join us for this special evening. (Well, that, and she’s a longtime friend of mine.) But there’s another reason: Like me, Martha has written a memoir about trauma she experienced as a child. For 12 years she and her family lived in Ethiopia, a country torn by political unrest. Young Martha witnessed things no child should ever see and later she was diagnosed with PTSD. Her book describes the mixture of beauty and terror that permeated her life in those early years. She understands trauma from both a personal and a professional perspective.

Friends, I hope you’ll mark your calendar for this unique evening and join us on Wednesday September 4 at 7 p.m. EDT. If you have to miss it or you’re in a different time zone that makes it impossible to attend, I’ll record the session and make it available later to subscribers of Good Eye, Bad Eye.

But if you want to take advantage of this highly unusual opportunity to ask real-time questions of a seasoned therapist, we’ll see you at the live event!

Click here to join the Zoom on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.