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NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM®)

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"The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection, health, and aliveness. No matter how withdrawn and isolated we have become, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves toward sunlight, there is in each of us an impulse toward connection and healing."

Laurence Heller, PhD and Aline LaPierre, PsyD,
authors of "Healing Developmental Trauma"

The NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM®) addresses Complex Trauma (“C-PTSD”), including attachment, relational and developmental trauma, by working with adaptive patterns that reflect unconscious patterns of disconnection that impact our identity, emotions, physiology, behaviour and relationships. NARM® integrates a body-centred and psychodynamic approach, within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, grounded in mindfulness and a phenomenological approach to addressing identity and consciousness of Self. NARM® offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for the resolution of Adverse Childhood Experiences (“ACEs”) and C-PTSD. NARM® offers a framework for post-traumatic growth by supporting increased resiliency, greater health outcomes, healthier relationships, personal growth and social change.

(Source: NARM Training Institute)

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Overview of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM®)
In NARM therapy, we focus on:
  • Exploring our Heart’s Desire, which refers to those deeply suppressed, unseen needs that fuel our life energy.

  • Understanding the underlying drives of “symptoms”, recognizing how they serve us in certain ways.

  • Gaining insight into our internal experience, meaning how we organize and relate to our internal and external world.

  • Working on Survival Strategies that once helped us adapt to early environmental challenges or failures but now hinder us from connecting to and actualizing our Heart’s Desire.

  • Cultivating the capacity to contain intense, unpleasant, yet core and usually complicated emotions.

  • Re-learning to feel embodied safety and security, enabling us to reconnect with ourselves and others.

  • Experiencing how Self-Agency supports us in taking ownership and engaging with our internal and external experiences in a new way.

Transforming Trauma Podcast
by the Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC)

In a modern world beset by complex trauma and a legacy of suffering, conflict and disconnection, healing trauma can serve as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Transforming Trauma is a podcast about thriving after trauma. Throughout our episodes, we will explore the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a revolutionary healing approach for healing Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and restoring connection to self and others. Whether you are a healthcare professional, an educator, a public policy maker, a trauma survivor, or someone interested in personal healing and social justice, Transforming Trauma will provide you with a map for increased resiliency, greater health outcomes, healthier relationships, personal growth and social change. We invite you to listen along as we explore how freedom from complex trauma is possible.

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