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Panic Attacks
SESSION 41 OF 46
Duration 16mins 22secs
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Panic attacks can feel overwhelming, but they are not a sign of weakness—they reflect a nervous system out of balance. In this insightful webinar, Dr. Pat Ogden explores the nature of panic, its signs, and contributing factors, including the link between panic and trauma. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how panic manifests in the body and learn practical, evidence-informed skills to directly influence physiology. Dr. Ogden demonstrates body-based techniques to regulate arousal, reduce intensity, and reclaim a sense of control. This session offers essential tools for managing panic attacks and fostering resilience in everyday life.
ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
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Understanding Trauma
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the theory of trauma and why instinctive responses shape our experience. Learn why trauma affects some people more than others, how traumatic events leave lasting imprints, and discover practical tools to work with your body’s responses and manage the effects of trauma.
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Overwhelming Emotions
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores overwhelming emotions after trauma. Learn why emotions can feel out of control, how trauma impacts the body and nervous system, and discover practical tools to regulate emotional responses. Gain strategies to restore calm, reclaim safety, and navigate life with greater emotional balance.
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Improving Your Relationships
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how early attachment shapes adult relationships. Learn to recognize pre-verbal patterns held in the body, understand how past relationships influence present interactions, and discover body-based strategies to shift old imprints, fostering healthier, more connected, and emotionally satisfying relationships.
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Setting Boundaries
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how to set and maintain healthy boundaries with yourself and others. Learn to recognize patterns that hinder assertiveness, and discover body-based strategies to communicate your limits effectively, foster self-respect, and ensure your boundaries are acknowledged and honored in everyday life.
05
Increasing Your Happiness
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores ways to cultivate happiness and enhance wellbeing. Learn techniques to shift focus from negative memories, reclaim positive experiences, and expand your capacity for joy. Discover how these practices impact your body and mind, fostering emotional balance, resilience, and a deeper sense of fulfillment.
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Regulating Your Arousal
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how trauma impacts arousal and the nervous system. Learn practical tools to regulate hyper- and hypo-arousal, reset your body’s responses, and cultivate self-compassion. Discover strategies to achieve optimal arousal, enhancing emotional balance, resilience, and a deeper sense of calm and well-being.
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Healing Your Shame
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores shame, its origins, and its impact on the body and mind. Learn to distinguish shame from guilt, understand its connection to trauma and early attachments, and discover practical tools to heal, foster self-compassion, and transform isolating shame into understanding and growth.
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Depression
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the root causes of depression, from personal histories and trauma to grief. Learn body- and mind-based techniques to address hypo-arousal, cultivate self-compassion, and challenge depressive patterns, empowering you to restore balance, resilience, and a deeper sense of well-being in your daily life.
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Social Anxiety
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores social anxiety, its causes, and its impact on daily life. Learn to recognize signs and symptoms, understand the body’s role, and discover practical tools and strategies to reduce anxiety, build confidence, and engage in social situations with greater ease and comfort.
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Regulating Your Rage
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores rage and explosive behaviors, uncovering why intense emotions arise in the body. Learn practical tools to identify triggers, regulate arousal, and transform emotional surges into calmer, constructive responses, empowering you to manage rage and change the outcomes of challenging situations.
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Dealing with Rape
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the trauma of rape and its impact on the body and mind. Learn tools to release self-judgment, understand instinctive defenses, and reclaim mobilizing actions, empowering yourself to heal, restore personal safety, and rebuild resilience after trauma.
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Self-Harm
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores self-harm and its connection to trauma and body disconnection. Learn why harm may be turned inward, understand self-hatred, and discover practical, body- and mind-based tools and substitute actions to cope safely, heal, and reclaim a sense of self-worth and emotional regulation.
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Understanding Your Memories
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the nature of memory, including explicit and implicit forms. Learn tools to recognize and work with different types of memories, understand triggers, and engage the body’s role in remembering. Discover strategies to foster awareness, insight, and healing through body-based memory work.
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Reconstructing Your Memories
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how to reconstruct traumatic memories. Learn techniques to shift the focus from distressing moments, reclaim positive experiences, and rewire deeply embedded trauma patterns. Real client examples illustrate practical strategies to transform memories and foster healing, resilience, and a renewed sense of safety and empowerment.
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Autism
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores autism and strategies to enhance social engagement, confidence, and well-being. Learn practical tools for managing sensory sensitivities, fostering positive relationships, and supporting both individuals with autism and their caregivers with body- and mind-based techniques that reduce arousal and promote comfort and connection.
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Chronic Pain
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores chronic pain and its connection to trauma and bodily patterns. Learn practical body-based techniques to relieve tension, shift unhelpful patterns, and reconnect with your body. Discover how listening to your body can guide healing, reduce pain, and restore comfort and mobility.
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ADHD
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores ADHD and strategies to manage hyperactivity, distraction, and high energy in children. Learn practical, body-based tools to help children self-regulate, channel energy constructively, and improve social interactions, fostering calm, focus, and a positive parent-child or caregiver-child relationship.
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Angry Kids
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores strategies to help children regulate anger. Learn practical tools to channel energy constructively, recognize triggers, and foster emotional understanding. This session emphasizes empowering children, strengthening caregiver-child connection, and supporting healthy, respectful expression of emotions without shame or punishment.
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Past Surgery Trauma
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the psychological impact of surgery and its potential to create trauma. Learn to recognize post-surgical symptoms, understand how trauma manifests in the body, and discover practical tools and strategies to support healing, resilience, and recovery in the aftermath of surgical experiences.
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Addiction
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the roots of addiction and its connection to trauma. Learn how dysregulated arousal drives addictive behaviors and discover practical, body- and mind-based strategies to regain control, regulate arousal, and cultivate healthier patterns for lasting recovery and resilience.
021
Domestic Violence
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores domestic violence and its deep relational and psychological dynamics. Learn practical tools and body-based strategies to release self-blame, cultivate self-compassion, reclaim personal power, and foster safety. Real client examples illuminate effective ways to navigate both victim and perpetrator experiences.
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Mindfulness
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores a practical, body-based approach to mindfulness. Learn how to use attention to body sensations, movement, emotions, thoughts, and images to understand problems, uncover root causes, and transform reactions. Real client examples illustrate how mindfulness can support growth and resilience in daily life.
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Dissociation
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores dissociation and its connection to trauma. Learn why we compartmentalize experiences, how defensive responses become stuck, and practical tools to reconnect your traumatised self with your everyday self. Discover strategies to heal, integrate, and restore balance using body- and mind-based techniques.
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Loneliness
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores loneliness and its roots in both mind and body. Learn practical tools and posture-based strategies to reduce feelings of emptiness, cultivate connection, and embody a more supportive, open presence that invites meaningful relationships and nurtures emotional well-being.
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Conflict in Relationships
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores conflict in relationships and the hidden “body conversation” beneath our words. Learn practical tools and techniques to navigate disagreements, understand how past patterns shape interactions, and transform conflict into opportunities for connection, understanding, and healthier communication.
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The Language of the Body
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the intelligence of the body and how it adapts to life’s challenges. Learn to tune in, understand mobilised and immobilised responses, and discover practical strategies to transform ingrained patterns, unlock new possibilities, and create a more empowered, present way of living in your body.
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Connecting with Others
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores connection in relationships and how to maintain closeness while honoring your sense of self. Learn about instinctive proximity-seeking behaviors, the impact of childhood experiences, and practical tools to set boundaries, foster healthy connection, and strengthen relational bonds with awareness and confidence.
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Limiting Beliefs
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores limiting beliefs that hold us back from living fully. Learn how trauma and relationships shape these unconscious patterns in both mind and body, and discover practical tools and body-based strategies to identify, work through, and transform limiting beliefs for a more empowered life.
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Cultivating Wellbeing
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores practical ways to cultivate lasting wellbeing. Learn to identify survival and creative resources, develop self-compassion, and use body-based strategies to transform coping mechanisms into growth-oriented practices, fostering resilience, balance, and a deeper sense of thriving in daily life.
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Anorexia
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores anorexia, uncovering its roots in trauma, relational experiences, and societal pressures. Learn practical, body-based tools to reconnect with your body, practice self-soothing, and heal. This session offers compassionate guidance for restoring self-esteem, fostering well-being, and navigating recovery from anorexia.
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Bulimia & Binge Eating
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores bulimia and binge eating, uncovering their roots in trauma, self-concept, and relational experiences. Learn body-based techniques to reconnect with your body, cultivate self-compassion, and create a safe, supportive approach to healing and transforming your relationship with food and yourself.
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Obesity
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores obesity and its deep connections to self-esteem, trauma, and body awareness. Learn practical tools to cultivate self-compassion, understand triggers, and use mindful body-based strategies to restore balance, reshape eating patterns, and uncover the root causes affecting your relationship with food and your body.
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Emotional Abuse
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores emotional abuse, its impact, and ways to navigate it. Learn practical, body-based strategies to regulate arousal, self-soothe, and empower yourself. Discover tools to address emotionally abusive behavior and restore a sense of safety, strength, and resilience in relationships.
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Building Resilience
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores resilience and how to cultivate it in everyday life. Learn practical body- and mind-based techniques to develop optimism, gratitude, self-compassion, and social support, helping you overcome challenges, strengthen inner resources, and navigate life’s struggles with greater confidence and adaptability.
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Shyness
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores shyness and how it shapes our experiences. Learn practical, body-based techniques to embody confidence, overcome social discomfort, and navigate public spaces with ease. Discover how posture, presence, and mindful awareness can help you feel confident from the inside out.
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Parts of Yourself
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the different parts of the self and how they develop. Learn how trauma and early experiences shape these parts, and discover practical, body-based strategies to communicate between them, heal negative patterns, and foster integration, resilience, and a stronger sense of self.
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Boundaries with Children
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how parents and children can establish healthy boundaries. Learn how children express boundaries differently, from passive to aggressive, and discover practical tools and activities that guide both parents and children in navigating limits, fostering respect, safety, and stronger relationships.
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Stress
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the nature of stress and its impact on body, mind, and emotions. Learn to recognize your stress responses and discover practical, body- and mind-based tools to manage tension, restore balance, and navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience and ease.
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War
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the trauma of war and its lasting effects on the body and mind. Learn how combat activates instinctive survival responses, and discover practical tools to manage arousal, integrate defensive reactions, and regain calm, resilience, and balance in civilian life.
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Reconnect With Your Body
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores how trauma and life experiences can disconnect us from our bodies. Learn practical skills and tools to restore body awareness, reclaim your natural sensations, and transform the imprint of the past, fostering presence, vitality, and a deeper connection with yourself.
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Panic Attacks « you are here
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she unpacks panic attacks, exploring their connection to trauma and their effects on the body. Learn how panic reflects nervous system dysregulation, not personal weakness, and discover practical, body-based skills to regulate physiology, regain control, and navigate panic with calm and confidence.
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Physical Abuse
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the impact of physical abuse on the body. Learn how our defense responses are activated, and discover practical skills and body-based actions to reclaim safety, strength, and resilience. This session offers guidance for navigating the aftermath of trauma with mindful regulation.
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Anxiety
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the nature of anxiety—its helpful and harmful forms—and offers practical ways to navigate it. Learn how anxiety lives in the body, how to regulate arousal, and discover mindful, body-based techniques to regain focus, calm, and control in challenging moments.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), uncovering its many forms and the impact it has on the body. Learn how to calm an aroused nervous system and discover practical, body-based skills to shift behaviors at a core level, restoring balance, control, and ease in daily life.
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Self-Esteem
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the roots of self-esteem, from early childhood experiences to the lasting impact of trauma and relationships. Discover how self-esteem is experienced in the body, and learn practical skills to cultivate a sense of worth, resilience, and a healthier connection with yourself.
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Movement
Join Dr. Pat Ogden as she explores the powerful connection between movement and mental health. Discover five foundational developmental movements identified by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, learn their psychological significance, and see how engaging them can help us navigate challenges, restore balance, and unlock new psychological capacities for well-being.
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