News from Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
June 2010
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In This Issue
* Teleseminar Calendar
* Reversing Chronic Pain Integrated Program
* News From the Mindbody Health Frontier
Calendar of Training Events

June 10
E-Workshop with Maggie &
Peter Levine
How Somatic Experiencing® can Maximize Strength, Resiliency, and Triumph

starting June 16
10-Session Group Coaching Program with Maggie
Reversing Chronic Pain

July 15
Teleseminar with Maggie & Jesse Cannone
How to Lose Your Back Pain

September 25 - 26
Workshop in Heidelberg, Germany with Maggie
The Body as Ultimate Healer of Trauma and Pain: Meeting Life with Your Whole Body

October 16 - 17
Workshop in Paris, France with Maggie
Expanding Heart Coherence: Connecting with the Heart of Healing
















Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
2768 Darnby Dr.
Oakland, CA 94611
USA
510-655-3843
Greetings!

This month brings graduations, weddings, and other important landmark events. In our June newsletter, we bring you news of our landmark training events and an article on What We Are Learning From Returning Veterans (scroll down to find this section).
 
With best wishes for healthy June transitions,

Maggie Phillips
Teleseminar Calendar

website imageThis month's teleseminar event is a special 3-hour e-workshop with Peter Levine and me on How SE (Somatic Experiencing®) Can Maximize Strength, Resiliency, and Triumph. This event will be held on Thursday, June 10, from 9 am - 12 pm Pacific time (live). Remember you do not need to arrange your schedule to attend live because you gain full and permanent access to all audio, video and written content. Go now to register www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_pl.html. To make sure that this is a workshop you will want to attend, please submit your questions and topics in advance to us at www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_interactive_pl.html.
 
We're excited about the format because we will begin with a 1.5-hour presentation on theories of resiliency, trauma, and how Somatic Experience® theory and practice makes it uniquely suited to work with both. We follow this with a 45-minute detailed analysis of Peter's video work with Ray, an Iraqi veteran (registrants will receive the video link before the e-workshop). We will focus on the subtleties of Peter's interventions and why and how they work. Finally, we close with a 30-minute live question and answer session to help you apply what you have heard. Topics we will discuss include:
  • Theories of resiliency and how they relate to the SE model;
  • How to identify, follow, and amplify the imprints of innate strengths when exploring body experience with yourself or others, including experiences related to preverbal, early childhood trauma;
  • Ways of countering and successfully releasing the forceful energies related to unresolved traumatic experiences and incomplete survival responses locked in our bodies;
  • How life-preserving energies can be transformed into life-enhancing energies;
  • How to orchestrate moments of triumph using SE principles and methods.
Please register at www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_pl.html.
 

Save the Date...
 
In July, we welcome Jesse Cannone who has a highly effective approach to the treatment of back pain. Our teleseminar, How to Lose Your Back Pain will run live on Thursday, July 15, from 9 am - 10:30 am Pacific time. Please watch for subsequent emails about this event. Until then, visit www.losethebackpain.com and receive a free copy of Jesse's The 7 Day Back Pain Cure Book.

Reversing Chronic Pain Integrated Program


I'm very happy to announce the launch of our new and updated reversing chronic pain program. For a limited time, you can purchase the full 10-module course of Reversing Chronic Pain Online for $69.97. This program is finally complete and here's some of the feedback we've received:

Maggie Phillips "10 Steps to Reversing Chronic Pain" is the most comprehensive program for helping people find relief from pain that I have ever discovered. As a psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and long time chronic pain sufferer, I cannot say enough good things about Maggie's work. Both her book and her online 10-step program offers every format that I have ever found for assisting people to manage pain and then some. Because everyone is unique and benefit differently from various approaches, it is wonderful to find in one place such a vast array of tools to help people cope with pain. When one approach does not help with a certain pain condition I simply move on to another until I find what helps me or my clients the best. 

Maggie's energy and efforts to help suffering people is tremendously impressive. I owe her much gratitude.

- Erica J Burns, MA, LPC

To read more testimonals and information, as well as registration instructions, please visit http://bit.ly/reversingpain.
 
Much of the feedback I'm receiving, while very positive, also asks for more help.  I have been working with this need and am so excited to announce to you the creation of a new Live 10-Session Group Coaching Program to accompany the Reversing Chronic Pain 10-Step Online Program.
 
The group coaching sessions will commence on June 16. To be included in the coaching program, you must register by Monday, June 14. Prior to the first session, you will receive a Study Guide, and each week you will also receive an mp3 recording of the one-hour session so you can review the information as often as you wish.
 
I've heard from many pain sufferers, asking that I hold these kinds of sessions and that I include their specific questions on how to best handle their situations. When you register for the Group Coaching Program, you will be provided with an email address where you can send your questions.  Plus - you can volunteer to participate in the live coaching as well!
 
The cost for the group coaching program alone is $69.97. Right now you can purchase BOTH the online program and the coaching program together for only $99.97. This is a huge savings and less than it would cost you to attend one session with a health or counseling provider!
 Reversing Chronic Pain
Don't delay signing up. THE FIRST 20 PEOPLE TO ENROLL WILL RECEIVE A FREE AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF MY BOOK, REVERSING CHRONIC PAIN! Go now to sign up at http://www.reversingchronicpain.com/groupcoaching.html. If you want to read more about the program and experience a small sample, scroll down on that page to explore a mini-sample of what you'll be receiving. Please note that this is a no-risk offer. If unsatisfied for any reason after attending the first group coaching session, I will refund your payment in full. That's how sure I am that you will benefit from this new addition to our pain programs.
 
I hope you will take advantage of this program and send anyone with a serious pain problem to http://bit.ly/reversingpain.

News From the Mindbody Health Frontier

This month's article on What We Are Learning From Returning Veterans is inspired by reports from Belleruth Naparstek , a leading authority on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and imagery (visit her at www.healingjourneys.com), and from The Institute of HeartMath (see www.heartmath.org). Since our e-workshop with Peter Levine features a video with Ray, a returning Iraqi veteran, this topic is a timely one.
 
The Institute of HeartMath (IHM) points out that more than 25% of the 1.64 million troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan report significant mental health challenges. Quoting the Rand study, The Invisible Wounds of War, "...the psychological toll of these deployments - many involving prolonged exposure to combat-related stress over multiple rotations - may be disproportionately high compared with the physical injuries of combat."
 
An even more revealing statistic included in a report submitted by Brig. Gen. Michael Kussman is that an estimated 18 soldiers commit suicide each day, a figure significantly higher than those killed in combat. This outcome is no doubt related to the fact that PTSD is the most common psychological combat disorder and a more general disorder known as COSR (combat operations stress reactions) affects even more troops with symptoms such as hypervigilance, hyperarousal, sleep disturbance, nightmares, mood disturbance, irritability, and memory and concentration difficulties.
 
We can learn a lot from some of the recent programs and research studies sponsored and implemented by the Veterans Administration. The IHM describes how HeartMath's heart-rate-variability-coherence biofeedback (HRVCB) training can help relieve symptoms related to both short-term aspects of COSR and long-term impact from PTSD. In the HeartMath program, participants learn to self-regulate heart rate variability by associating it with a positive emotional state and then intentionally producing the positive emotional state that increases coherence. Improvements include autonomic balancing, emotional restructuring and more consistent mindbody functioning related to stress.
 
Belleruth Naparstek notes that most troops avoid counseling, viewing it as shameful and demeaning and with the danger of labeling them pejoratively. For this reason, the most popular is self-help via audio downloads. Reports from the Phoenix VA suggest that about 70% of soldiers treated respond well to guided imagery.
 
Since many returning troops have difficulty relaxing and are in an alarm state most of the time, she introduces guided imagery for relaxation, self-regulation skills and sleep improvement. The use of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, employed in combat locations, gets poor scores from most soldiers while a combination of biofeedback and guided imagery, martial arts like qi-gong, and downloads of brief guided imagery techniques to address anger, forgiveness, and stress hardiness received high marks. Interventions, including audio downloads, that address the direct healing of trauma are rated as "too intense" by many of the armed forces clients. To read summaries of studies conducted by the Duke University Veterans Administration, visit www.healthjourneys.com/dukestudy.asp
 
If any of you are working with veterans, we would welcome your feedback about what you have found effective as well as what does not seem to work so well. We will publish your feedback in a future issue of our newsletter. Please submit your feedback to me at www.maggiephillipsphd.com/veterans.html.
 
With my best wishes for your ongoing health and well-being,

Maggie
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