Befriending your nervous system to heal

Hi, everyone-

I’m currently working through The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook, by Vanessa Blackstone and Olivia Sinaiko. It’s based on Alan Gordon’s healing methods.

What’s cool about it, is it teaches you to befriend your nervous system. You learn how your nervous system is trying to protect you, and instead of fighting it, you work with it to understand when and how it started to be over-protective and why. You treat it kindly. Like a friend. Then you slowly teach it that “you’ve got this.” You’re safe.

The workbook is simple and short. I like it. If you’ve had any experience with Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, you’ll relate to it. (I have.) The book uses those methods to find your over-protective “parts.” But, you don’t necessarily need any IFS experience to do the workbook. It’s self-explanatory.

I’m feeling hopeful with this. I can work with this. It makes sense. I’ll let you know how it goes.