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By special request, this is Jeanette Yoffe breaking down Siegel's hand model of the brain in the most child-friendly way I have encountered. You can access the clip on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dxnYhdyuY And visit Jeanette's site at: www.YoffeTherapy.com "Child Psychotherapist, Jeanette Yoffe, MFT explains the kid version of Daniel Siegel's HAND MODEL OF THE BRAIN. Share with children ages 3 and up, provide them with finger puppets for their animal part and googly eyes for th

The neuroscience of how to trauma is stored in your body. Essentially when you take in sensory information that is traumatic your mind sends a single to your brain to store this information. Then you brain usually cannot hold it so it goes through your hypothalamus and shoves that message back down into your body. It’s at that point in your hypothalamus and some other pieces of your nervous system turn that electrochemical message into a hormonal message through your immune and endocrine system.