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Calendar of Training Events
September 15
Teleseminar with Michael Yapko & Maggie
How to Treat and Prevent Depression in Children
September 25 - 26
Workshop with Maggie in Heidelberg, Germany
The Body as
Ultimate Healer: Meeting Life with Your Whole Body
October 2 - 3
Workshop with Maggie,
in Bonn, Germany
Master Class in
Ego-State Therapy
October 6, 13, 20, & 27
Ecourse with Claire Frederick & Maggie
Clinical Intensive in Ego-State Therapy
October 8 - 10
Conference with Maggie in Heidelberg, Germany
Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy
October 16 - 17
Workshop with Maggie in Paris, France
Expanding Heart Coherence: Connecting with the Heart of Healing
November 9
Teleseminar with Robert Scaer & Maggie
Brain Neuroplasticity: Quantam Changes in the Treatment of Trauma and
Pain
December 3
Teleseminar with Laurel Parnell & Maggie
Resource Tapping: Activating Your Healing Potentials Through Bilateral
Stimulation
December 9-12
2 Workshops with Maggie in Orlando, Florida
Radical Self-Acceptance and Self-Forgiveness
and
Empowering the Self Through the Heart of Healing
Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
2768 Darnby Dr.
Oakland, CA 94611
USA
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Greetings!
I hope August finds you with
vacation plans that will help you expand beyond ordinary rhythms and bring
much-needed rest, retreat, enjoyment, and perhaps even an adventure or two.
This month, instead of a live teleseminar, we offer a "Back-to-School sale" to
give you an opportunity to explore topics and products that you might not have
had time to consider earlier in the year. We also give you a "sneak preview" of
our fall teleseminar schedule and some live training events that are fast approaching. This will give you a complete look at our training schedule for the rest of 2010 so you may want to highlight it or save it for later use. Our August news article features "Overuse Injuries: A Rising
Blight on Kids' Sports" (scroll down to find this section).
Enjoy the rest of your summer,
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August
"Back to School" Sale
 We are happy to announce
special sales on a collection of some of our most popular "Ask the Experts"
2009-2010 teleseminar events and products. Although I agree that it's hard right
now even to think about "getting back in gear" again for the fall, maybe this
opportunity will provide a positive way to begin recommitting yourself to the
study of what you most value. If you are affiliated with a group, receive a 25%
discount when ordering for 2 people and a 50% discount when ordering for 3 or
more people. These prices are good only through September 1st, so
take a minute or two to order them now. Boxed Sets1. Energy
Psychology series: This boxed set
includes two dynamic presentations - Fred Gallo's intriguing 3 hour e-course on
his new model for creating wholeness, The Identity Method, and Michael Mayer's
teleseminar QiGong and Bodymind Healing: An Integrated
Approach to Stress and Pain. To learn more
about this package and to order now, click here. 2. Hypnosis
series: This excellent collection includes three 90 minute
teleseminars: Michael Yapko on Hypnotic and
Strategic Approaches to Treating Depression, Steve Gilligan on Reclaiming the
Exiled Self, and Bruce Eimer presenting How Self-Hypnosis Can Relieve Pain,
Anxiety, and Stress. For more
information about this package and to order now, click here. 3. Mindfulness
series: This set includes two inspiring selections -
Brother David Steindl-Rast on Pathways to Gratefulness and Ron Siegel on Pathways to
Mindfulness. For more information and to order now, click here. All three special offers are available
only through September 1st so please order now! Treat yourself, or consider
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Teleseminar Calendar
 We have an outstanding
teleseminar calendar this fall. Please save the dates in your learning
calendar. This month's article and our first teleseminar spotlight the start of
the school year and "hot" issues for kids.
1. First, on Wednesday, September 15, from 9 am-10:30
am Pacific Time, I welcome Dr. Michael Yapko for a seminar on How to Treat and Prevent Depression
in Children. If you have kids and/or work with children and
adolescents, you won't want to miss this event. Some of our topics include:
· Early warning signs of
depression in children · Preventive steps to reduce
a child's or adolescent's vulnerability to depression · The role of genetics · How parents can respond to
minimize the impact of depression · How depression in parents
can seed depression in their children · Your topic (to let us know
in advance what topics are important to you, click here)
Sign up early, so your
intention to participate won't be distanced by all the activity at end of
summer and the start of school. Go to www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_my2.html
2. During the month of October, Dr. Claire Frederick and I will be leading a Clinical
Intensive in Ego-State Therapy - featuring a series of teleseminars
focused on complex clinical questions and your most challenging cases. If
you've taken other training in ego-state therapy (which is a requirement
for this e-course), then you already know what a valuable method it is to treat
complex trauma as well as many other related issues including anxiety,
depression, panic, pain, and other
atypical symptoms. For full details, including cost, and to register, go to www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_cf2.html
3. Dr. Robert Scaer joins
me on Tuesday, November 9, from
9 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time for a stimulating seminar on Brain Neuroplasticity: Quantam
Changes in the Treatment of Trauma and Pain. Our topics will include:
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How the brain repairs itself: Mechanisms of neuroplasticity
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Epigenetic research: Understanding how new experiences can change
our DNA
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Reward pathways in the brain and how they motivate new pathways
of thought, behavior, emotion, and sensation
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The "plastic paradox:" How plasticity is both the good and bad news
of the change process
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Neuroplasticity in children: Pediatric problems that predict later development
of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and related syndromes
For more information and to sign up, go to: www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_drs.html
4. On Friday, December 3, from 9 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time, Laurel Parnell and
I will present a teleseminar on Resource
Tapping: Activating Your Healing Potentials Through Bilateral Stimulation.
This seminar will illustrate tapping in resources through the bilateral
stimulation approach used in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitzation and
Reprogramming). Our presentations will focus on how Laurel's "Tapping In"
techniques can help re-balance the
nervous system, activate the parasympathetic restoration cycle, and teach
self-regulation to resolve many of the symptoms connected with the pain of
trauma. For more information about Laurel, popular EMDR facilitator and author
of Tapping In: A Step-by Step Guide to Activating
Your Healing Resources With Bilateral Stimulation, please visit www.emdrinfo.com. For more information and
to sign up for this teleseminar, go to: www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_lp.html
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Live Training Event Calendar
I'm also excited about my
upcoming live teaching events and
hope you can join me in various corners of the world. 25-26 September The Body as Ultimate Healer: Meeting Life
with Your Whole Body. Location: Milton H. Erickson Institute Heidelberg,
Germany. Contact the office at: ursula.haerle@meihei.de.
This workshop is designed to teach both the art and science of
working with the wisdom and resources of the body to heal mind-body symptoms
and health problems while reversing the effects of psychological and physical
trauma. The model of Somatic Experiencing® (SE), based on the study of
resiliency responses of animals and humans to threat, is used as a foundational
method to provide gentle yet powerful interventions that can be incorporated
into any practice setting. Participants will learn how Somatic
Experiencing® techniques can be used to detect and resolve constriction in the
body and disregulation of the nervous system that contributes to a wide
spectrum of clinical, medical, and learning problems. Presentations will
address ways to empower clients through contact with their bodies' natural
resources, strategies for reducing fear and anxiety, and techniques for rapid
relief of acute and long-term stress reactions. Click here to learn more. 2-3 October Master
Class in Ego-State Therapy in Bonn,
Germany. This is a unique experience taught at intermediate and advanced
levels. A maximum of 12 participants will be accepted. Prerequisite
requirements include 100 hours of past training in clinical, Ericksonian,
and/or medical hypnosis, and completion of at least the foundations (beginning)
level in Ego-State Therapy. This workshop will focus on ego-state therapy as a
comprehensive method to repair post-traumatic fragmentation, dissociative and
attachment difficulties, and intractable mindbody symptoms including anxiety,
depression, health issues, and chronic and atypical pain. Participants will review
hypnotic and nonhypnotic techniques and methods useful for work with ego states
connected with various post-traumatic symptoms. Click here to learn more. 8-10 October Energy
Psychology in Psychotherapy conference,
Heidelberg, Germany. Contact: Ursula Härle at ursula.haerle@meihei.de or visit www.meihei.de. This is an exciting conference
with many experts from the US, Germany, the UK, and other countries
participating in the faculty. Come join us to learn exciting new energy
innovations against the autumn background of quaint Heidelberg. 16-17 October Expanding Heart Coherence: Connecting
with the Heart of Healing in Paris! Contact:
Bernard Mayer at IETSP - mayer@ietsp.fr. This workshop will help
professionals discover and practice various effective techniques, including
EMDR, which can expand heart coherence as the center of healing for themselves
and their clients. The format includes live and video demonstration, clinical
case consultation, and experiential exercises. Recent neuroscience has
identified evidence that heart coherence and intelligence are essential to the
healing process. Studies conducted by the Institute of HeartMath™ and other researchers have demonstrated that the
energy field of the heart is 60 times larger and more than 500 times stronger
than that of the brain, and that the heart sends many more messages to the
brain than the brain does to the heart. This workshop will teach
participants how to develop and apply elements of heart intelligence and
coherence to help heal PTSD, pain, depression, anxiety and panic, and stress
reactions including intrusive flashbacks, rapid cycling negative thoughts, and
sleep disturbances. A variety of all-natural techniques will be presented and
practiced to expand heart coherence including heart-based breathing. Click here to learn more. (courses#4) 9-12 DecemberI will be presenting 2 workshops at the Brief Therapy conference in
Orlando, Florida, home of Epcot Center and Disney World. Join me for Radical Self-Acceptance and Self-Forgiveness and Empowering the Self Through
the Heart of Healing. Enjoy warm weather, good fun, and an intensive study
environment. For more information and registration, visit www.brieftherapyconference.com.
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Overuse Injuries in Kids' Sports
With
school starting soon in many areas, it's a good time for us to renew our
awareness about how sports can adversely affect the health of many children and
adolescents through the increase of "overuse injuries."
Overuse
injuries were once virtually unknown in young athletes. That changed with the
emergence of organized sports and their emphasis on repetitive coaching drills,
as well as the recent trend toward sports specialization in young athletes. Nationally renowned orthopedic surgeon, Dr. James
Andrews, reports that he is seeing four times as many overuse injuries in youth
sports than five years ago and more kids are having surgery for chronic sports
injuries.
Experts attribute this
increase to the fact that more youth today are specializing in one sport at an
early age and training year-round. All these injuries can be linked to overuse,
doing too much, too often. Gone are the days of switching to a new sport each
season - the two or three-sport young athlete seems to be a thing of the past
as the competition, access and seasons expand to year-round play.
Sports specialization seems
to have come at a high price. Playing a variety of different sports throughout
the year was a form cross-training that was extremely beneficial to a young
body's physical development. Playing multiple sports at different times of the
year gives some muscles a chance to rest while others are being worked. Now
those same muscles and joints are used none-stop and have no recovery time.
In fact, training the same
muscles year-round is believed to be the main cause of the rise in overuse
injuries in young athletes. The repetitive stress can cause young bodies to
break down and increase the risk of injury.
Overtraining syndrome
frequently occurs in athletes who are training for competition or a specific
event and train beyond the body's ability to recover. Athletes often exercise
longer and harder so they can improve. But without adequate rest and recovery,
these training regimens can backfire, and actually decrease performance. Conditioning
requires a balance between overload and recovery. Too much overload and/or too
little recovery may result in both physical and psychology symptoms of
overtraining syndrome.
Common Warning Signs and
Symptoms of Overtraining Syndrome include:
Washed-out feeling, tired,
drained, lack of energy
Mild leg soreness, general
aches and pains
Pain in muscles and joints
Sudden drop in performance
Insomnia
Headaches
Decreased immunity (increased
number of colds, and sore throats)
Decrease in training
capacity / intensity
Moodiness and irritability
Depression
Loss of enthusiasm for the
sport
Decreased appetite
Increased incidence of
injuries.
A compulsive need to
exercise
It's hard to predict
overtraining since everyone's body is different. It is important, however, to
vary training through the year and schedule significant rest time.
Detecting Overtraining. If you suspect you or your child are overtraining,
the first thing to do is reduce or stop your exercise and allow a few days of
rest. Drink plenty of fluids, and alter your diet if necessary. Cross training
can help you discover if you are overworking certain muscles and also help you
determine if you are just mentally fatigued. A sports massage can help you
recharge overused muscles.
There are several ways to
objectively measure some signs of overtraining. One is by documenting heart
rates over time. Track aerobic heart rate at specific exercise intensities and
speeds throughout the course of training and write down this information. If the pace starts to slow but
resting heart rate increases and other symptoms are present, overtraining
syndrome may be indicated. If tracking resting heart rates each morning
indicate any marked increases from the norm, this may indicate a lack of full
recovery.
A specific way to test
recovery is to use the orthostatic heart rate test, developed by Heikki Rusko
while working with cross country skiers. To obtain this measurement:
Lie down and rest
comfortably for 10 minutes the same time each day (morning is best);
At the end of 10 minutes,
record your heart rate in beats per minute.
Then stand up.
After 15 seconds, take a
second heart rate in beats per minute.
After 90 seconds, take a
third heart rate in beats per minute.
After 120 seconds, take a
fourth heart rate in beats per minute.
Well rested athletes will
show a consistent heart rate between measurements, but Rusko found that athletes
on the verge of overtraining showed a marked increase (10 beats/minutes or
more) in the 120 second-post-standing measurement. Such a change may indicate a
lack of full recovery from a previous workout, fatigue, or stress, and it may
be helpful to reduce training or rest another day before performing another
workout.
A training log that includes
notes about general daily moods can suggest downward trends and decreased
enthusiasm. It's important to listen to body signals and rest when the body
indicates tiredness. It's also useful to ask others their observations related
to overtraining. Unfortunately, most athletes ignore these signs or wait too
long before doing something. An important component of exercise is to measure
training effects objectively and modify it before damage is done.
While there are many
proposed ways to test objectively for overtraining, the most accurate and
sensitive measurements are to note psychological signs and symptoms and changes
in an athlete's mental state. Decreased positive feelings for sports and
increased negative feelings, such as depression, anger, fatigue, and
irritability often appear after a few days of intensive overtraining. Studies
have found increased ratings of perceived exertion during exercise after only
three days of overload.
Research on overtraining
syndrome shows rest is the primary treatment plan. Some new evidence
indicating that low levels of exercise (active recovery) during the rest period
will speed recovery. Moderate exercise has also been shown to increase
immunity. Total recovery can take several weeks and includes proper nutrition
and stress reduction.
Many cases of overuse injury
can result in serious difficulties including:
Patellar pain syndrome - an alignment problem in the
knee caused by overtraining - is one of today's most frequent diagnoses, even
though this condition had never been seen before in kids until the explosion of
organized sports. Talk of stress fractures, tendinitis, and bursitis is no
longer confined to pro athletes; today conversation about these topics can be overheard
routinely in high school locker rooms.
Certain
overuse sports injuries, such as "Little League elbow," which refers to shear
damage to the growth cartilage in the elbow joint caused by repetitive whipping
motions of the arm, are seen exclusively in child athletes because of the
softness of their growing bones and relative tightness of their ligaments and
tendons during growth spurts.
Other
overuse sports injuries found mostly in children include osteochondritis
dissecans of the knee and ankle (repetitive grinding together of bones in
those joints causes damage to the growing surface cartilage, and may result in
pieces of dead bone and cartilage dropping into the joint and causing serious
damage); Osgood Schlatter's syndrome (inflammation at the point where
the tendon connects the kneecap to the very top of the shinbone); and os
calcis apophysitis (inflammation at the point where the Achilles tendon
attaches to the heel).
Unlike
acute sports injuries such as sprains, strains, bruises, and breaks, which the
Consumer Products Safety Commission announces can result in four million
emergency room visits every year, the exact prevalence of overuse injuries is
difficult to ascertain. This is because the symptoms of overuse injuries
develop over time, and do not require immediate emergency care. Suffice it to
say overuse injuries in kids' sports are so common that pediatric sports
medicine clinics such as the one at Boston Children's Hospital have opened to
respond to the problem, and, as seen above, we've had to come up with medical
names for them.
One
of the most disturbing aspects of overuse injuries is their insidiousness.
Often kids won't admit to being sore - they may just drop out of sports
abruptly, often for life. When injuries go undetected, the damage to a growing
child's hard and soft tissues can be permanent. Evidence suggests that overuse
injuries sustained in childhood may continue to cause problems in later life - resulting
in arthritis, for instance.
Since
overtraining is the most common cause of overuse injury, the most effective way
to prevent overuse injuries is to ensure kids are being coached by qualified
personnel. The National Center for Sports Safety has just introduced a
sports safety course called PREPARE. The course is available
online at www.SportsSafety.org and covers important topics ranging from
blisters and sprains to life-threatening head and neck injuries. PREPAREgives coaches and parents the knowledge and confidence to respond to
emergencies until professional help arrives. If you are close to children who
are participating in organized sports, you may want to encourage their coaches to
take this course.
Another
important measure is to make sure kids have a proper pre-season physical
every year to rule out underlying conditions that might predispose them to
overuse injury - These include anatomical abnormalities such as knock knees,
flat feet, and swayback, for instance. Finally, if kids want to participate in
strenuous sports, they should be fit enough to do so - a properly-performed
pre-season physical should rule out fitness deficiencies, and recommend an
exercise program.
It's exciting to see happy,
healthy, confident youngsters with a glint in their eye expressing how much
they are enjoying sports. By detecting and reducing overuse injuries we can
make sports a safer and even more rewarding environment for these young athletes.
Do your part by sharing the important information in this article with the
children, adolescents, and their parents in your life!
Note: Our article is based on material developed by Dr. Micheli, who
co-founded and is director of the world's first sports medicine clinic for
children, located at Boston Children's Hospital. He is also the chairperson of
the Massachusetts Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports, and a
past president of the American College of Sports Medicine. Please visit http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site1172/mainpageS1172P0.html. We've also included information from
Elizabeth Quinn. For more information, see http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/children/a/overusekids.htm.
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A.L.T., Tahvanainen, K.U.O., Uusitalo, A.J., Rusko, H.K.: Does increase in
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heart rate variability. Overtraining and Overreaching in Sport - Congress,
Memphis, Tennessee, 1996.
Uusitalo,
A., Hanin, Y., Rusko, H.: Effect of exhaustive training on mental state,
autonomic regulation and hematological parameters. Int. Congress on applied
research in sports, Helsinki, 1994.
Kirwan
JP, Costill DL, Flynn MG, et al: Physiological responses to successive days of
intense training in competitive swimmers. Medicine and Science in Sports and
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Thanks
for reading.
Yours
in health,
Maggie
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