This trauma trigger will therefore cause fear and anxiety as they drop into character, because it feels like they are losing control - losing themselves.
A key to working with this, in my view, is understanding that the physical core is the emotional core. As we find stability, strength and staying power through deep core engagement, we find a corollary response from our limbic system - we feel more confident and grounded. Therefore there is less need to dissociate in the first place.
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Deep core work through breath and voice is an answer. The more a dissociative learns how to return to a body that increasingly calm, strong, safe and stable, the more confident they will feel in the actors space, and the less they will want to “anywhere-but-here”. Instead of a scary place, the body becomes a safe haven.
As it should be.
I’ve been doing this work for 25 years with actors, singers, and trauma survivors.
Warning: short rant follows. 🔥😇
I had some 3D thinker (CBT) tell me “one can’t empower somebody else”. What utter bullshit.
Get around the cortex’s (thinking brain) smokescreens, and offer real, physical, mental and emotional strength and ease techniques, find your Power Inhalations and Surrender Exhalations, strengthen social connectivity, learn to transmute anxiety into imaginative creativity, teach Metaphorical Power Movement to increase peri-personal space, encourage Vagal Tone, engage the deep core, promote a sense of safety and confidence, discover the Big Voice, re-integrate body, breath and voice, discover FLOW, and show them how all these skills were already inside, just waiting to be unleashed.
Presto 👉 Personal Empowerment. 💪
Because inside they have a deep understanding that all their skills and sense of belonging came from them. Not from me, or anyone else - THEM.
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