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Return to Wholeness: SSRI Withdrawal Kelli Foulkrod, MS, LPA, LPCI, RYT ORGANIC MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, PLLC MEDICAL TRAUMA Toxic Psychiatry Profit over Humanity Holistic SSRI Withdrawal YOGA BREATH WORK MEDITATION

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Return to Wholeness:

SSRI Withdrawal

Kelli Foulkrod, MS, LPA, LPCI, RYT

ORGANIC MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, PLLC

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MEDICAL TRAUMA

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Toxic Psychiatry

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Profit over Humanity

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Holistic SSRI Withdrawal

  • YOGA
  • BREATH WORK
  • MEDITATION
  • CEREMONY/RITUAL
  • MEANING IN SUFFERING
  • COMMUNITY!!!!
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YOGA THERAPY

  • EMBODIMENT
  • TRAUMA RELEASE
  • MINDFULNESS
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FREEZE RESPONSE

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How the body holds trauma

The PSOAS MUSCLE

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Psoas Release

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Backbend Medicine

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Coherent Breath

  • Comfortable seat and eyes closed.
  • With closed mouth, breathe IN nose for 4 seconds.
  • Gently hold the breath for 4 seconds.
  • Breathe out just to a count of 4.
  • Gently hold the breath for 4 seconds.
  • Continue this pattern for 4 minutes and notice

how you feel.

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THE VAGUS NERVE

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Functions of Vagus

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation

  • Chanting
  • Community
  • Cold Water
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SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM

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ORIENTING RESPONSE

  • Creates a sense of safety
  • Grounds energy in the body
  • Demo
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EMBODIMENT

  • What do I see?
  • What do I hear?
  • What do I feel? (NOT emotions, sensations)
  • YOGA or ANY movement practice
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TRAUMA RELEASE PRACTICES

  • Body Boundary Exercise
  • Feel Skeleton
  • Sense internal organs
  • Coupled with “It’s safe to be here”
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TRAUMA RELEASE PRACTICES TREMBLING AND SHAKING

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FELT SENSE EXERCISE

Descriptors for the Felt Sense: feeling/sensation

– pressure – even, uneven, supportive, crushing, little circulation – air – gentle, cool, warm, right, left, stimulating, rush, like a feather, like mist – tension – solid, dense, warm, cold, inflamed, protective, constricting, angry, sad – pain – ache, sharp, twinge, slight, stabbing – tingling – pricks, vibration, tickling, numb – itch – mild itch, angry itch, irritating itch, subtle itch, small itch, large area of itching

temperature – warm, hot, burning, cool, cold, clammy, icy, frozen, oven, fire, sunshine size – small, medium, big shape – flat, circle, blob, triangle weight – light, heavy motion – circular, erratic, straight line speed – fast, slow, still texture – rough, soft, sandpaper, smooth, silky element – fire, air, earth, water, wood color – gray, blue, orange etc. mood/emotion sinking, pulling in, open, closed, uplifting, sunny, dark sound – buzzing, humming, choppy

  • taste – sour, bitter, sweet
  • smell – pungent, sweet, sour, rotten
  • absence/nothingness – blank, empty
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MY STORY

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Connect with Kelli:

ORGANIC MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, PLLC

  • rganicmentalhealthcenter@gmail.com

512-200-3359 www.organicmentalhealthcenter.com

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References:

  • Levine, P. A. (1997). Waking the tiger: Healing

trauma : the innate capacity to transform

  • verwhelming experiences. Berkeley, Calif:

North Atlantic Books.

  • Scaer, R. C. (2001). The Body Bears the Burden:

Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease.

  • Van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the

score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of

  • trauma. New York: Viking.