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Val Lougheed Northern Lights Canada Trauma, Rehabilitation and Recovery ACTION Makes it Happen 1-800-361-4642 * www.northernlightscanada.ca * [email protected]
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Power point Program for Val Lougheed's Keynote Luncheon Address at the JOIN Conference in Toronto, ON; November 29, 2010
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Val LougheedNorthern Lights Canada
Trauma, Rehabilitation and Recovery
ACTION Makes it
Happen
1-800-361-4642 * www.northernlightscanada.ca * [email protected]
“You don’t want your impairments to define you – you want them to inform you.”
(Hanita Dagan, personal communication, 2005)
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Agenda
•Beginning …
•Middle …
•End …
ACTION Makes it Happen
1. What does it mean to recover?
2. What can I do to recover and return to a life that includes work?
3. What can we do to facilitate recovery and a return to work?
Rated PG-113
People Strongly Cautioned!
May contain bad language, brief nudity, sexual overtones, and drug usage.
Beginning
My Story
Sept. 9, 2003 - morning
Sept. 9 – p.m.
Sept. 15 2003 – Jan. 19 2004
Journey Back to Life
Journey Back to Work
February 2004 – Present
Starting Point
Identity Disintegration
and
The Re-organization of Self
March 2004
“In the aftermath of traumatic life events… [the] sense of self has been shattered.”
(Herman, 1992, p. 61)
“An existential crisis…”(Dagan, personal communication,
2005)
Middle
Research
Foundations for Understanding
Experience
Body-Mind Connection
Psychoimmunoendocrine Network
The nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are functionally integrated – the brain is only one part of this non-hierarchical network Memories, emotions, behaviours and physiology are all connected at the molecular level
(Candace Pert, 1997, p. 171 – 179)
Body-Mind Connection
“The words and attitudes of others … are potent. They help or hex healing and
recovery.”
“ Expectations are powerful.”
“Neutrality can be deadly.”(Bolen, 1996, p. 94; Sternberg, 2001, p. 65)
Quantum Connection
The Living Matrix -- 1995• A type of energy exists that has previously gone unnoticed.
• Cells/DNA influence matter through this form of energy.
• DNA Phantom effect.
Braden, 2007, p. 45
The Re-Organization of
Self
“Loss of identity can evoke a personal crisis, creating a
need for change.”
(Ornelas, in Smith & Johnson (Eds), 1997, p. 172)
End
Reflections
ACTION Makes it Happen Resilience
Ability to return to original form after being bent (bounce back)
Thriving in constant change, ability to be:
• Flexible
• Creative
• Adaptable
• Learn from experiencehttp://www.resiliencycenter.com/articles/5levels.shtml
ACTION Makes it Happen
Rehabilitation (habiter – to live inside)
“Rehabilitation (the re-organization of self) is the learning to live inside not only one’s body, however it is after an injury or illness, but inside one’s very being.”
(Kabat-Zinn, in Meili, 2003, p. 241)
ACTION Makes it Happen
RecoveryCuring Focus on the illness/
impairment [outside]
Healing Focus on the person [inside]
Crombez, October, 2003
Be Still
