All Episodes
Liberation Is Possible — 132 episodes
29 – Repetitive Events Means We Have Experience
28 – Squeeze and Let It Go
27 – 20 Minutes Letting Down with Gravity
26 – It’s a Marathon, So Pace Yourself
25 – Everybody Has A Limit
24 – Competing Impulses Warning – Choose One and Stick with it
23 – Altered State Means Avoid Big Decisions
22 – Action is the Antidote for Despair
21 – Takes More Time to Come Down Than We Want to Give It
20 – Rehearsing Coming Down
19 – Modulation of Constant Activation
18 – Inebriation and Watching Yourself
17 – Reclaiming Your Spontaneity
16 – Helpers Need to Take Care of Themselves Too
15 – Emotional Waves Happen
14 – Assessing Proximity of Danger
13 – Autonomic Nervous System Paradox
12 – Science That Helps Us Deactivate
11 – 3 Stories from Traumatology
10 – What We Can Expect from Our Stress Response
09 – Vestibular and Proprioceptive Input Helps the Body
08 – Tough People and Emotional People Have Special Concerns
07 – Deactivation Process to Signal Calming Down
06 – Safe Places to Find Some Rest
05 – Parenting and these Stressful Times
04 – Preparing and Restoring Orientation to Decrease the Stress Response
03 – StressLess Basic Options
02 – Technical Conversation about Living Under Stress for a Long Time
01 – Introduction to Twig’s StressLess Series for Getting through Wildfires and other Natural Disasters
Catastrophic Thinking, Existential Threats & How SEP’s can help clients when they’re flipping out
New Years Update for Twig’s SE Reflections
Holiday Sessions – an episode that almost got away
098: Preparing Clients for Surgery
Tea Interlude Check In During Continuing Publishing Hiatus
097: Common Mistakes SEP’s Make
096: Doing Other Stuff
095: After the Accident
094: Invitations to Orientation
093: To Linger or Move On?
092: Advanced Joining, Yay-Boo! and Cursing in Sessions
091: Helping the Stuck Thing Move Again
090: Comedy Improv Games for SE Practitioners
089: Technique or A Feeling
088: The Pendulation Terrain
087: Let’s Try It Once
086: The Planned Collapse
085: Protecting from Extreme Range of Motion
084: Milton’s List
083: It’s So Weird
082: The Perfect Therapeutic Island
081: Practical Follow Up – When Every New Sensation is a Threat – Part 2
080: What to Do When Every New Sensation is a Threat – Part 1
079: Sleep, Dreams and a Good Night Wish
078: Don’t Avoid the Text
077: Will this Be an I Can or I Can’t Moment?
076: Preparing the Advocate
075: Finding Your Own SE Voice
074: Helping Clients Get to Know You Quickly
073: Getting to Know Clients Quickly
072: Letting Go in the Presence of Another
071: Breaking the Silence that Goes On Too Long
070: Working Eyes Open or Closed?
069: Clients with High Expectations
068: Learning a New Terrain Takes Time
067: Positive Deviancy Approach to SE Sessions
066: Looking Back Looking Forward
Winter Interlude Returning January 1st – Podcast Pause
065: Pendulation…Is It Enough?
064: Remember to Pendulate?
063: Will this Pendulate?
062: Guarding the Moment – Protecting the Present Tense
061: This is a Lot Like Hunting
060: Am I a Fraud? Is this stuff real?
059: Closing Sessions
058: Altered States of Workshops and a Caution
057: Hating the Beginning of Sessions
056: Postural People Watching
055: Dorsal Vagal Complex Major Attributes
054: More Fires, Community Trauma on Repeat and Leaning on what’s going in the right direction
053: Sympathetic Nervous System Major Attributes
052: Ventral Vagal Complex Major Attributes
051: Cautionary Words about a Ventral Vagal Bias
050: Special Video Episode: Gratitude and Transparency followed by a Pause
049: Referral Source Considerations
048: Accumulated Stress and Fire Lines
047: Natural Disasters in one SEP’s Backyard
046: Crying and Stuff Like That
045: Master Classes, Assisting or Auditing: Moving forward or going back first?
044: Thinking About Work After Work
043: The Formula
042: Leaning on the Contract
041: Clarity of Feedback
040: Cheerleading Mistakes
039: Why We Ask Questions
038: It’s a Try It Out Kind of Thing
037: Choice Points – When to Sleep
036: Choice Points – Observational Sufficiency or Not
035: Choice Points – Successful Orientation or Not
034: Choice Points: Continuous or Intermittent Tracking in Deactivation
033: Choice Points: Another Round or Not
032: Choice Points – To Allow Freeze or Not
031: We are Everywhere
030: You Are Someone and Nobody Deserves to be an SEP More Than You Do
029: My SE is Real Moment – A True Story
028: Client Solidarity Time
027: Merging with Clients
026: 3 Types of Questions
025: Soft Seeing
024: Learning the Craft
023: Mouth Movements
022: Resiliency Testing
021: Door Etiquette
020: Local Maximum
019: Patter in Sessions
018: Just Right Amount Positive Reflections
017: Responding to Story Elements: One more Map
016: Only the Differences Can Be Seen
015: Every Little Step in the Right Direction
014: The Upward Trend
013: Stay in the Session
012: Why Our Clients Need Us
011: A Basic Positivity Test
010: Stealing the Technique
009: Remembering to Move
008: Question and Answer Roundup 1
007: Musings on the centrality of a neuroception of sufficient safety
006: Changing your unwanted intervention patterns 10 percent at a time
005: Adjunctive Studies for the SE Practitioner seeking artfulness
004: Return of Twig’s SE Reflections
003: Getting Through Freezy Sessions
002: Continuous or Intermittent Tracking
001: The Importance of Spontaneity