Creating Your Own Healing Room
making space for your Self
setting it up...
What is a Healing Room?
A Healing Room is a safe and sacred space for you do do your own healing work supplementary to your personal therapy. Having a good therapist and seeing them regularly is important for deep and transformative healing. If your therapist is familiar with IFS, EMDR or some of the other modalities interwoven in these instructional modules - all the better. But it is not requirement, because your therapist will very likely understand and value the modules contained here. After all, doing this work will open important areas of exploration and healing, teach emotional self-regulation skills, and provide many resources that will support your work with your therapist.
Even if you don't have a personal therapist currently, having a Healing Room and doing these modules can help you in the ways listed above until you are in a better position to find a good therapist. Ultimately that will enhance and deepen what you are able to do on your own. But doing it yourself will better prepare you.
Finding a Space
Having a quiet and private space to do your own healing work is ideal. Work with what you have. Sometimes space and privacy are limited. Be creative. Ideally it is a separate room and you have a desk or table available, or even just some open space on the floor. You will need some storage for materials.
Some therapists may even want to create a Healing Room at their practice for clients to use, when they do not have sufficient space or resources to create their own.
it can look like this...
Alternating Bilateral Stimulation
What are Healing Room Modules?
Scroll to bottom for links to modules.
things you will need...
Basic Materials
- Scrap paper, writing paper, index cards of different colors, post-it notes, a journal to write on
- drawing paper, or sketch pads to draw on
- pens, colored pencils, markers to draw and write with
- small colored glass beads, marbles, stones, or fuzzy balls from a craft supplier
- Yoga mat & bolster or pillow to sit on
- stuffed animal or doll
Additional Materials
- different card sets
- cloth labyrinth
- The Moon Deck
- A stereo or just earbuds or headphones for playing alternating bilateral stimulation (ABS) recordings
- set of Chakra Stones
- Love' stone
- fidget-spinner
Books
- Medicine Cards & Animal-Speak
- Pausitivity: Take a Moment to Nurture Yourself, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
- You're Here for a Reason
- The Gift of Nothing
- Parts Work
- Self-Therapy
- Mindfulness Manual
- 1001 Pearls of Yoga Wisdom
- Healing Trauma
- Tao Oracle
- It Didn't Start with You
- Power of Mindfulness' edition of Yoga Journal
Attachments
- Basic Genogram Symbols
- Alternate Nostril Breathing page
- Resources of the Self page
- Ocean Crossover
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