tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23474487649926375552024-03-14T10:36:36.556+00:00Energy and IntentionTapping into the truth of who you really areNoreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.comBlogger624125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-13359639503902035202021-04-27T20:33:00.001+01:002021-04-27T20:33:03.317+01:00Censorship and tyranny<p>I got banned from posting and commenting on Facebook yesterday for 24 hours for spreading "misinformation". The "misinformation" that I spread was a scientific article from a Stanford researcher entitled '<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/?fbclid=IwAR0fhyQr1OFUE_MB57RFX2FAOKbWXkTETHuvlKce_knVt5QHO18qhN5mWs8" target="_blank">Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis</a>'. I tried to post the same article today and was banned for another 3 days. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act ~ George Orwell</b></p><p>The conclusion in the above article states:</p><p>"The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health". </p><p>Just imagine that Facebook deems this "misinformation". The real misinformation is coming from the utter quackery that we have to put up with, along with the 24/7 fear mongering, gas lighting and censorship of real science. Science is nowhere to be seen in the mainstream.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say ~ George R.R. Martin</b></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-40201378266014255962021-04-15T18:31:00.000+01:002021-04-15T18:31:34.169+01:00Vaccine passports<p>I find the idea of forcing or coercing anyone into any medical intervention appalling. Where there is risk, there must be choice.</p><p>I am totally against vaccine passports, which is medical apartheid. There are many people who can't, or don't want to, take experimental technologies with emergency use authorisation only, and this right should be respected and enshrined in law. There are many who have suffered vaccine injuries and death and anyone in denial of this, is in denial. Where is the science instead of the spin, marketing and advertising?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWdXuC38zx_bJnAVwNihO2AcGYKRtEY9cCECVG4oQU0y5VQWFQ3PLztfXKZb9zuDh-3Tj8liP07jew8Ed1yTqeP4Ehq4wQq0xDUz0gHIokuC2iIkTcAVLv5Bz5Qy9xpamB-IPr9Jn7do_/s508/attuning_forks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWdXuC38zx_bJnAVwNihO2AcGYKRtEY9cCECVG4oQU0y5VQWFQ3PLztfXKZb9zuDh-3Tj8liP07jew8Ed1yTqeP4Ehq4wQq0xDUz0gHIokuC2iIkTcAVLv5Bz5Qy9xpamB-IPr9Jn7do_/s16000/attuning_forks.png" /></a></div><br /><p>Segregating and discriminating against people based on their vaccination status belongs in Nazi Germany. No one should be opted out of life because they are forced to take part in a clinical trial. This violates the first Nuremberg Code: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential".</p><p>Let's remind ourselves that this virus has a survival rate above 99.95% in the under 70s and even higher in children. If older people were being genuinely protected and looked after, they would not have been left to die in nursing homes. They would have been given vitamin D, Ivermectin and HCQ and other therapeutics, instead of waiting a whole year for experimental technologies that had only undergone 9-10 months of trials.</p><p>I've had enough of the 24/7 fear mongering, criminality, abuse, gaslighting, emotional blackmail, virtue signalling, constant changing of goalposts and the deliberate traumatisaton of us all, but especially children. It is heinous what is going on.</p><p>I am pro choice, pro REAL science, pro informed consent, pro freedom ALL THE WAY. What is going on right now in the name of "health" is criminal and has to stop.</p><p>Image and caption by @attuningforks</p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-46799148403082118092021-02-16T13:34:00.004+00:002021-02-16T13:38:46.584+00:00 Has being trauma informed gone out the window when it comes to masks?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">There are many people who cannot wear masks. Covering their mouth and nose triggers and retraumatises them. I don't think I need to go into the details as to why this can happen.</span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">There is also the fact that many people cannot breathe well with masks on, whether this is because of physical issues like asthma, or mental health issues like PTSD. They are all valid reasons not to wear a mask. Please watch the latest video by barrister <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0xIC_Z_JHL4A-7KLrCf6-gW-Npq6w91ZV9Rs_Lz-5838RU4eo6RzlnupA&v=n1H_rrNaOVs&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Tracey O'Mahony</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0xIC_Z_JHL4A-7KLrCf6-gW-Npq6w91ZV9Rs_Lz-5838RU4eo6RzlnupA&v=n1H_rrNaOVs&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"> on ridiculing the disabled</a>. It is illegal in Ireland to discriminate against anyone who cannot wear a mask. Know that you can legally exempt yourself, check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTTo2dnWh8" target="_blank">Tracey's video here on how to do that</a>.</span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">I also believe that people who do not want to wear masks have that right. Masks are a medical intervention and there should always be choice whether to consent to, or decline, any medical intervention, in any decent and democratic society.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gnN59RKn2FnkO52iZ8uo5kNAcb7icXkYdi1SplXQUiaIGx-vI3twlDSrfRgLFnBYhubp9Ain2VFvBJ76j4Vv6G0f08sbeb0m4wSLgdbp0JnHGA36Br437JeDeDKTJWcMyUvijGwkBSsI/s500/traumainformed_masksblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gnN59RKn2FnkO52iZ8uo5kNAcb7icXkYdi1SplXQUiaIGx-vI3twlDSrfRgLFnBYhubp9Ain2VFvBJ76j4Vv6G0f08sbeb0m4wSLgdbp0JnHGA36Br437JeDeDKTJWcMyUvijGwkBSsI/s16000/traumainformed_masksblog.jpg" /></a></div><p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The" science is not settled on this matter because there is no such thing as "the" science. That implies consensus, and there is no consensus or agreement on whether masks work. Let's be honest, any science that goes against the one accepted narrative is </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjYvitCeMPc&feature=emb_title" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">disparaged and censored</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/16/publicis-groupe.aspx?ui=53a74adcae1e4d6afc7c7925963951ae666ec74cc5b32cafcf2ff204e6062d98&sd=20110531&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210216_HL2&mid=DM798013&rid=1085146159" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Censorship</a><span style="background-color: white;"> is always part and parcel of any tyranny.</span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">What has really shocked me is the shaming, criticising, bullying, ridiculing, emotional blackmailing and manipulating of people who do not wear masks and calling them "anti-maskers". People have been refused service in shops etc for not wearing masks when they have exemptions. This has happened to me and it was extremely upsetting. This is illegal under Disability and Equality Acts in many countries, and people are taking cases. </span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://disabilityrights.org.uk " target="_blank">https://disabilityrights.org.uk </a>write that "The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to supermarkets warning them that they should not be discriminating against disabled people unable to wear face covering". You can also contact the EHCR with any complaint.</span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">I have seen and heard people in the mental health field express disdain for those who don't wear masks because they say they are not protecting others. Without any empathy or understanding as to why people don't/can't wear masks. How on earth is this a trauma informed approach?</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">It really beggars belief. It is adding to the abuse and gaslighting that is making people question themselves and their sanity.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">For the first 4-5 months of the pandemic, we were told not to wear masks, then they were mandated in many countries. This constant changing of goalposts has been employed many times during the last year and it is a typical abusive tactic. The goalposts will never be reached, no matter what you do. The most obvious example being "This is the new normal until a vaccine arrives". The vaccine has arrived and yet because they <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037?fbclid=IwAR2cHu7V62yKLPYcEZQYkc-xIxb3kVDd02mhc9v1aCNHvP992CDbqcX-ydk" target="_blank">only treat symptoms</a>, do not confer immunity and do not prevent transmission, so lockdowns, masks and social distancing etc. have to continue.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817" target="_blank">https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-124394/v1" target="_blank">https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-124394/v1</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577" target="_blank">https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577</a></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?q=masks#stq=masks" target="_blank">https://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?q=masks<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #00376b; font-kerning: none;">#stq</span>=masks</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/" target="_blank">https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/</a></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-59135226817702245772021-01-25T20:21:00.002+00:002021-01-25T20:21:44.064+00:00THE BIG PRINT GIVETH and the small print taketh away ~ Dr Marcus de Brun<p>I am pro choice in all health matters. I believe in body autonomy and sovereignty in all cases. Informed consent and refusal for all medical interventions should never be under threat and should be ensured and enshrined in law. Our human rights should be upheld and should not be in any danger, which they currently are. The very first item in the <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/doctors-trial/nuremberg-code" target="_blank">Nuremberg Code</a> states: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential". This should always be the case in any decent and democratic society.</p><p>1. COVID VACCINES ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE</p><p>These vaccines have only had <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037?fbclid=IwAR2cHu7V62yKLPYcEZQYkc-xIxb3kVDd02mhc9v1aCNHvP992CDbqcX-ydk" target="_blank">9-10 months trials</a>. Safety and efficacy have not yet been proven. Anyone claiming they are safe and effective is spreading misinformation. These <a href="https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2021/01/24/what-is-the-likelihood-that-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccines-will-alter-our-dna-should-you-be-concerned/" target="_blank">experimental vaccines</a> have emergency use authorisation only, they do not have approval. They cannot have approval after such short trials. Vaccine trials normally take 10 to 20 years to complete. There have been many deaths, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGB1-YFn1Q" target="_blank">serious "side" effects</a> and people <a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-over-12000-people-test-positive-for-covid-after-taking-pfizer-vaccine-in-israel/371342" target="_blank">contracting covid</a> from the vaccines. In just over a month. The fact is, the trials are continuing with humans being effectively experimented upon until 2023, at minimum. These "vaccines" are <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/WobUtaRbXtEB/" target="_blank">experimental</a>, with never used before technology says <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-no-need-for-vaccines-the-pandemic-is-effectively-over" target="_blank">Dr Mike Yeadon,</a> former VP and chief scientific officer of Pfizer.</p><p>2. COVID VACCINES PREVENT TRANSMISSION AND CONFER IMMUNITY</p><p><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037?fbclid=IwAR2cHu7V62yKLPYcEZQYkc-xIxb3kVDd02mhc9v1aCNHvP992CDbqcX-ydk" target="_blank">The vaccines only treat symptoms</a>, they were not trialled to prevent transmission, hospitalisations, deaths or confer immunity. As they do not confer immunity, they do not fit the legal definition of what a vaccine is. They were only tested on young health people, not pregnant women, children, the elderly or the immuno compromised.</p><p>3. COVID 19 IS A DEADLY VIRUS FOR EVERYONE</p><p>Covid 19 has a survival rate above <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgn4B2Iq2cg" target="_blank">99.95% in the under 70s, Professor John Lee</a>. It affects older people, mostly those over 80, with underlying conditions. Covid 19 can be prevented and the severity of its effects lessened, with treatments we already have available, like <a href="https://covid19criticalcare.com/?fbclid=IwAR1swnRFxMGCgNOOu-TcIuLdRI1GRRkFk8DBpQVJKlt3LySzWJqrV4HSnGI" target="_blank">Ivermectin</a> and Vitamin D etc. Vaccines, just like any other medical intervention, should be a choice.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghhUqACpg4A2U7AK0R9iy7ffXh0P6H4nf-Pl4QEUcOx_6uk3TswSww7Bxn78IT7P6LlSkXbjZtinVCSxMZyY7050txxwVuul7c-pH_nTb7OpvTAhNtHldISG3LwsJlFgLUNlArHAWaE33/s400/drmarucusdebrun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghhUqACpg4A2U7AK0R9iy7ffXh0P6H4nf-Pl4QEUcOx_6uk3TswSww7Bxn78IT7P6LlSkXbjZtinVCSxMZyY7050txxwVuul7c-pH_nTb7OpvTAhNtHldISG3LwsJlFgLUNlArHAWaE33/s16000/drmarucusdebrun.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>4. THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL UNTIL A VACCINE ARRIVES</p><p>Because covid vaccines only treat symptoms, decimating <a href="https://thefatemperor.com/published-papers-and-data-on-lockdown-weak-efficacy-and-lockdown-huge-harms/?fbclid=IwAR1yMhINPuyq-90r1yGxwozHvw2X18xNuECbeU_gU4f8pVXldhBYunGgmog" target="_blank">lockdowns</a>, social distancing, restrictions and masks will continue, as we have been recently told by government. Changing the goalposts often, is a common abusive tactic. They are never reached, if they are they are changed. It builds up hope, only to be consistently dashed, leading people to question their sanity and be brought to their knees. We were initially told that it would take 15 days to flatten the curve in March 2020, and here we are in lockdown number 3 in Ireland, until at least the end of March 2021, if not longer. Nearly 11 months of lockdowns and restrictions. For what? <a href="https://thefatemperor.com/published-papers-and-data-on-lockdown-weak-efficacy-and-lockdown-huge-harms/" target="_blank">See 27 papers showing the "collateral damage" of lockdowns</a>.</p><p>5. VACCINES ARE THE ONLY TREATMENT FOR COVID 19</p><p>Treatments and prophylactics like <a href="https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2021/01/17/dr-pierre-korys-slides-from-unbreakingscience/" target="_blank">Ivermectin</a>, <a href="https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/dont-allow-vitamin-d-deficiency-increase-risk-covid/?fbclid=IwAR3oZEsdDIYVWNvcPysJc28EB0zQN8GKnBeI8UpMnwXswl1xwfKgh6KxRFc" target="_blank">Vitamin D</a>, intravenous Vitamin C, <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6212859932001?fbclid=IwAR35xT54a3p0lZmC0NH5pJf_Xf08o7oOrkBjBoZCmjjP83geWIqPKSEBzJ8" target="_blank">Hydroxychloroquine </a>(which has been politicised and linked to Trump, so anyone who mentions it is a Trump supporter and therefore not to be believed) are not being widely used. How can governments honestly say that the vulnerable are being protected? They are not. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vitamin+d+and+covid19" target="_blank">Study after study</a> can be found on pubmed.gov showing how beneficial Vitamin D is to the prevention and severity of covid19.</p><p>6. VACCINE PASSPORTS AND CERTIFICATES ARE NEEDED FOR TRAVEL, WORK ETC</p><p>There is no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated: both can transmit the virus and neither have immunity. You can get immunity by contracting the virus naturally, thereby <a href="https://www.newstalk.com/news/luke-oneill-recovered-coronavirus-patients-have-stronger-protection-than-vaccinated-people-1133149?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0khbWDAfN7hiTA8MqzRrkGdnf0MYZKrudQ_NZpzRWCcu4Ej-2kN8d-Brc#Echobox=1610371011" target="_blank">building herd immunity within the community</a> and genuinely <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z" target="_blank">protecting the vulnerable</a>. The fact that these "passes" are even being contemplated in democratic societies is heinous and criminal. They flout the Nuremberg code and all human rights' charters. I don't know how they can be legal. Don't we learn anything from history?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti</b></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-68309297633964539082020-12-17T14:54:00.004+00:002020-12-17T14:59:25.305+00:00Covid, trauma and mental health<p>What does covid have to do with trauma and mental health? Everything.</p><p>It is appalling what is happening in the name of "health". A <a href="https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/people-with-vaccine-certificates-to-face-fewer-restrictions-on-life-39869247.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=seeding&fbclid=IwAR2FT31R7dhd6NnudZUFT5AkpvRsN9o3Jyuf-w8oc_gv09uVgDVqNz1ZnbA" target="_blank">recent article in the Independent newspaper</a> in Ireland wrote "Vaccine certificates may be needed to attend social gatherings or sporting events once the majority of the population are vaccinated". The article goes on to say "At the launch of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said certificates could play a key role in the fight against coronavirus if the vaccine significantly reduces transmission of the disease".</p><p>They know that these vaccines DO NOT prevent transmission. The trials were not designed to do anything but treat/suppress symptoms. Many people don't realise this. A <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037?fbclid=IwAR2cHu7V62yKLPYcEZQYkc-xIxb3kVDd02mhc9v1aCNHvP992CDbqcX-ydk" target="_blank">recent article from The British Medical Journal</a> stated that: "None of the trials currently under way are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus". So why are they needed? Why all the talk of mandating/forcing/coercing them?</p><p>These new, <a href="https://brandnewtube.com/watch/ask-the-experts-covid-19-vaccine-now-banned-on-youtube-and-facebook_qIsNohSIeSgfz2J.html" target="_blank">gene based vaccines using mRNA technology</a>, have never been used before. Already there have been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGB1-YFn1Q" target="_blank">serious adverse events</a> from the trials and initial vaccinations; Bells Palsy, Anapylactic shock and they have been contraindicated for women who are pregnant or wishing to become pregnant. 21% of people in the Moderna trials had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGB1-YFn1Q" target="_blank">serious adverse effects</a>. Where there is risk, there HAS TO BE choice.</p><p>These vaccines were all tested<a href="https://archive.org/details/prof.-dr.-sucharit-bhakdi-the-side-effects-of-the-genetic-vaccine" target="_blank"> on healthy, young people</a> not older people with underlying conditions. Dr Mike Yeadon, former VP and chief scientific officer with Pfizer, says that no fit or healthy person need take this vaccine, only older and vulnerable people. And they also have a choice in this. Yet we are being forced/coerced to do so which contravenes the <a href="https://www.imarcresearch.com/blog/bid/359393/nuremberg-code-1947" target="_blank">Nuremberg Code</a>.</p><p>This is about medical freedom, informed consent and refusal and bodily sovereignty. I cannot believe that vaccine papers are even being contemplated. Where are we? The third Reich? This shows just how important it is to resolve individual, collective and intergenerational trauma because otherwise it repeats itself, over and over and over again. This is what we are now seeing in action.</p><p>Fear is being whipped up at every available opportunity which sounds my radar. People feel trapped, helpless and terrified. How on earth is this good for our health, mental or physical?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZYBSMMlkHWLj0C0-eesYNd2uNPvqQT6vRhyMK07Qwi4fpG2rLCOtBaA9nRuvXb_O29XEFYRs5xJXdOpGKWp3aF5X9zr-S87lT41mPBbyZy8skvYiXz1YwHtKwJR05DkAkaccwB8ixP-s/s588/Screen+Shot+2020-12-17+at+12.01.12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="588" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZYBSMMlkHWLj0C0-eesYNd2uNPvqQT6vRhyMK07Qwi4fpG2rLCOtBaA9nRuvXb_O29XEFYRs5xJXdOpGKWp3aF5X9zr-S87lT41mPBbyZy8skvYiXz1YwHtKwJR05DkAkaccwB8ixP-s/w400-h384/Screen+Shot+2020-12-17+at+12.01.12.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sVLgaX6Clxef5vxnLprv8CIyozBZA0Dfkq1h7FZ3iqufY8Fx2YypqGbrVpJv0NSrB3P_dlHBiJF3auazkjyYFw4dB33hoJOaTUml70aLx9dZIZvSFfDa9GmQN4CEpmMZ09uBV6AD1AUE/s720/131296501_760545471476636_6608883055816588638_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="720" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sVLgaX6Clxef5vxnLprv8CIyozBZA0Dfkq1h7FZ3iqufY8Fx2YypqGbrVpJv0NSrB3P_dlHBiJF3auazkjyYFw4dB33hoJOaTUml70aLx9dZIZvSFfDa9GmQN4CEpmMZ09uBV6AD1AUE/w400-h387/131296501_760545471476636_6608883055816588638_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-20604321215769520872020-12-02T18:08:00.002+00:002020-12-02T18:12:24.419+00:00Medical freedom and body sovereignty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CIKF_HGY_EMf8Sy4XhC0KDjU4cpkHBYEEUHR6f2RXC3MDwv24DC5ddhvM91jB2XAwtUYqSTtJNyZ_ZQxkZIzOVabWKwDPa-V6iQk-7WogwxGMyFE5nXEdTqEIxdV-1i3YX6X7H9KsDTX/s500/krishnamurti2blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CIKF_HGY_EMf8Sy4XhC0KDjU4cpkHBYEEUHR6f2RXC3MDwv24DC5ddhvM91jB2XAwtUYqSTtJNyZ_ZQxkZIzOVabWKwDPa-V6iQk-7WogwxGMyFE5nXEdTqEIxdV-1i3YX6X7H9KsDTX/s16000/krishnamurti2blog.jpg" /></a></div><p>My radar sounds when anyone wants us afraid and to keep us afraid, using every opportunity to whip fear up.</p><p>My radar sounds when there is only one narrative allowed.</p><p>My radar sounds when there is no scientific debate.</p><p>My radar sounds when experienced doctors and scientists who don't agree with the one accepted narrative are discredited, smeared and censored.</p><p>My radar sounds because the inventor of the PCR tests, Kary Mullis, said it was not to be used for diagnostic purposes but they are used for exactly that purpose. Many scientists have spoken out against this and they have been ignored.</p><p>My radar sounds when the cycles on the PCR tests are too high producing false positives that are called cases.</p><p>My radar sounds when hatred towards a group who are pro science is allowed, incited and encouraged.</p><p>My radar sounds when I hear that governments are considering and some implementing, forced medical procedures.</p><p>My radar sounds when they want to punish those who decline a "warp speed" experimental vaccine (Dr Mike Yeadon, former chief scientific officer for Pfizer) with no travel, education, concerts, sports, restaurants, in person shopping etc.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzV5LNROy15LHFN9b39Nx41FyBKTkxdo0AxsANehoUToX5Yo8zVmHAIyEVIrZHiZOgVcw2I9YWq4mZE3kq1xDqVksdMMKRAuWQq0jgbngPphAFNZDB9OmIzqZ6xC9Jkd_5AkL3wKyXI_8/s500/mike_yeadon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzV5LNROy15LHFN9b39Nx41FyBKTkxdo0AxsANehoUToX5Yo8zVmHAIyEVIrZHiZOgVcw2I9YWq4mZE3kq1xDqVksdMMKRAuWQq0jgbngPphAFNZDB9OmIzqZ6xC9Jkd_5AkL3wKyXI_8/s16000/mike_yeadon.jpg" /></a></div><p>My radar sounds when lockdowns are used, even though many many scientists have said they do not work, to prevent the spread of a virus with an above survival rate of 99.95% for under 70s (Professor John Lee).</p><p>My radar sounds when the vulnerable are not looked after and even left to die in nursing homes, despite all the virtue signalling and empty words.</p><p>I want to know why it is ok to say this in a national newspaper: "Given what is at stake, a refusal to vaccinate is the socialisation of manslaughter" ~ Gerard Howlin</p><p>I want to know why professor Brian Lucey of Trinity College Dublin can get away with tweeting this: "Bluntly, we need to make those who opt out to know they are opting out of sport, education, travel, socialising and in-person shopping. If that takes a mandatory passport showing your jabbed, so be it" ~ Professor Brian Lucey</p><p>I want to know why professor Luke O'Neill, also of Trinity, could go to a classroom and tell students they "should" get vaccinated and they might need to wear a wristband that doesn't come off to show they've been vaccinated if they want to go to their debs (prom). He also made fun of people who want their civil liberties and said they would say "Not on my wrist".</p><div><br /></div>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-31926194504472427642020-11-25T17:53:00.001+00:002020-11-25T17:54:29.771+00:00Dr Mike Yeadon, former chief scientist at Pfizer<p>God it's good to hear people tell the truth. Dr Mike Yeadon is one of the ethical scientists, speaking common sense and real science about the covid situation. He dares question the ONE accepted narrative from the mainstream which is what true science does: welcomes questions. Questions propel science forward. We're not hearing much science, just fear mongering and marketing for selling unsafe drugs.</p><p>He tweeted this brilliant piece last night on twitter. Another article you might want to read is '<a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425" target="_blank">Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science</a>' from the British Medical Journal. Things are changing and people are waking up to probably the biggest hoax in the history of humankind.</p><p>"I’ve got news for any state which thinks it’s being cute by getting around the illegality of mandates by instead using COERCION. </p><p>Just make your life increasingly unmanageable, so you ‘volunteer’ for it. </p><p>No. </p><p>That’s also illegal & such states will find themselves prosecuted by groups of concerned citizens & others. </p><p>I still have no idea why this is happening, but I do know that the facts warrant offering (with full informed consent) vaccination only to the most vulnerable (by virtue of age and/or certain chronic illnesses). </p><p>Absolutely no one else needs to consider vaccination. </p><p>Perhaps in several years to come, in the usual fashion, as the thickness of the safety database grows, and we learn what these experimental medicines are really like, in the real world, those a few years below a rational but somewhat arbitrary age threshold might step forward & request vaccination. </p><p>Not only is it not indicated from a medical perspective for others than those who demonstrably at elevated risk of severe illness & death, but such others will be adding an unknown risk for no benefit. </p><p>No doctor is going to involve themselves in such a mass vaccination campaign. </p><p>So if you notice mention of people other than healthcare professionals being involved, you have to put your collective feet down.</p><p>I’m constitutionally pro-vaccination & I’ve worked in & around ‘big pharma’ all my working life. </p><p>But a rushed series of vaccines? They’re not needed.</p><p>So like mention of “waves”, I immediately smell a rat. </p><p>We know that approximately 50% of the population were already immune to SARS-COV-2 before it arrived in U.K. </p><p>The quality and number of original research papers published this year shows it’s a ‘hot’ area. </p><p>It’s very clear. We know that it is real and we even know the mechanism (previous exposure to viruses with common regions to those in the new virus, in this case endemic common cold causing coronaviruses). </p><p>This is a very well-trodden route whereby the human immune system learns how to defend itself against related hazards. </p><p>Analogous to the cowpox exposures protects against smallpox story we were all taught at school, after the questionable experiments conducted by Edward Jenner. </p><p>That’s why after only a low % of population were infected, there were too few remaining susceptible people to support a consolidated & growing outbreak to occur. </p><p>That’s when I knew I was being lied to. </p><p>While the laws of immunology aren’t as immutable as those of chemistry, for example, they’re pretty solid. </p><p>They’re what keeps you safe & well, mostly, in a sea of invisible microorganisms. </p><p>So there isn’t any question that the U.K. population is protected by “herd immunity” at a national level. </p><p>It is possible that due to unhelpful actions by Govt a few areas might be just below HI. </p><p>But as this immunity is robust & durable, it’s simply not possible for this “2nd wave” we’re being told is happening to actually be as described. </p><p>There’s a major problem somewhere. </p><p>I think it’s inside the testing system. I can’t think of a reason for this other than to prompt receptiveness to vaccination. </p><p>And on policies designed to increase acceptance of vaccination, even by those not at any notable risk from this virus, we see all sorts of things which were just unthinkable last year. </p><p>Making ‘freedom’ contingent on it. I don’t think we’ve long to make clear, as a free & democratic people, we tell with one voice, everybody who’s suborned their humanity to be involved in whatever this is, that we reject you and all your works.</p><p>And of all the most objectionable works, the one which must cease is PCR mass testing. </p><p>Scientifically, a technique which was at its very limits in the spring (& did a pretty good job) has been changed & locked in the lighthouse. </p><p>These structures are as old as seafaring. They’re not meant to gone close to, by most of us, as they’re a warning signal. </p><p>Stay away...stay away...they blink. Telling us not to come close. </p><p>For in coming close, we know what happened numerous times in the past when seafarers misunderstood the cues, misread the warnings. </p><p>The first time you would learn you’d gone horribly wrong, was also beyond the last time for a safe outcome. </p><p>Warnings from history? I don’t know". </p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-88306078478393992792020-11-24T13:39:00.000+00:002020-11-24T13:39:04.250+00:00Your microbiome and your health Zach Bush MD<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ru8HoikHR1s" width="504" youtube-src-id="ru8HoikHR1s"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This video is excellent, an example of real science from a real doctor who I really admire, <a href="https://zachbushmd.com" target="_blank">Zach Bush</a> MD. The first 5 minutes are crucially important in understanding how we deal with respiratory viruses like Covid19. I hope it will leave you feeling empowered, hopeful and reassured.</div><br /><p></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-6650471729337109732020-11-16T19:31:00.000+00:002020-11-16T19:31:07.524+00:00The price of truth<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbj9Ql0cM8Q" width="483" youtube-src-id="qbj9Ql0cM8Q"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">When Dr. Pat Morrissey realised that silence was no longer an option, he made the difficult decision to stand up for what he believes is right: to protect his patients and set a brave example for his children. This meant losing almost everything he had worked for in the past 6 years... quote from </span><a href="https://healthfreedomireland.com" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Health Freedom Ireland</a></div><p></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-5892148835077647152020-11-16T18:28:00.002+00:002020-11-16T18:28:36.507+00:00Unmasking the truth with Dr Marcus de Brun<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="396" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E8f6ex-N3TA" width="530" youtube-src-id="E8f6ex-N3TA"></iframe></div><p>An Irish doctor, Dr Marcus de Brun, standing up and speaking out for medical freedom, bodily sovereignty, informed consent and refusal.</p><p></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-67122269373714067652020-11-12T18:09:00.005+00:002020-11-12T18:10:40.243+00:00There is nothing normal about what is going on<p>There is nothing normal about what is going on. The pandemic was over in May. I refuse to use the term, the "new normal" as it is a sick term. As Jiddu Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of health to be profoundly adjusted to a sick society".</p><p>I cannot and will not participate in these crimes against humanity as a human and a mental health professional. This is trauma in action.</p><p>What's going on now has nothing to do with a virus, or health. The crimes being committed against us are heinous.</p><p>Make no mistake, the PCR test was chosen because it gives false positives. Your choice in the future will be an improperly tested, unsafe vaccine or a PCR test.</p><p>How will they almost guarantee you'll choose the vaccine? Because if you opt for the PCR test, and get a false positive (even more likely than now, all they have to do is increase the cycle rate), you'll have to self isolate for 14 days in a self isolation "facility". <a href="https://www2.hse.ie/services/coronavirus-self-isolation-facilities/" target="_blank">https://www2.hse.ie/services/coronavirus-self-isolation-facilities/</a> Note the review date for this is in 2023!</p><p>Ticketmaster and others are rolling these "options" out already but it won't be on their website just yet. The mainstream is very good at covering their tracks until just the right moment. That's why everyone calls these things a conspiracy theory, until they're not. I only wish all of this were still a conspiracy theory. </p><p>Ireland has even developed a <a href="https://www.healthpassportireland.ie" target="_blank">health passport</a>, in the future you won't be able to travel without it. It will have all your medical information, including if you're up to date on all of your vaccinations.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI8yZ6i1zw4k3x0MIf1c4z97GP6RkmUr7XRrp6Bze4HqtuDWCr5UnEdBpEoE9_1j8S1fltoh_p4baWuNyFGy2mkypy70iUZpLpi1g_F1Jtysf2lcKKCUVk5SyonwRbofaPUFRaO4M2xhi/s500/new_normal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvI8yZ6i1zw4k3x0MIf1c4z97GP6RkmUr7XRrp6Bze4HqtuDWCr5UnEdBpEoE9_1j8S1fltoh_p4baWuNyFGy2mkypy70iUZpLpi1g_F1Jtysf2lcKKCUVk5SyonwRbofaPUFRaO4M2xhi/s16000/new_normal.jpg" /></a></div><p>Here are some resources that I hope will be of help.</p><p><a href="https://worlddoctorsalliance.com/blog/theworldfreedomalliance2020announcementvideo/" target="_blank">https://worlddoctorsalliance.com/blog/theworldfreedomalliance2020announcementvideo/</a></p><p><a href="https://covid19ireland.squarespace.com" target="_blank">https://covid19ireland.squarespace.com</a></p><p><a href="https://questioningcovid.com" target="_blank">https://questioningcovid.com</a></p><p><a href="https://covileaks.co.uk" target="_blank">https://covileaks.co.uk</a></p><p><a href="https://pandata.org" target="_blank">https://pandata.org</a></p><p><a href="https://plandemicseries.com/" target="_blank">https://plandemicseries.com/</a> Watch the brilliant Dr David Martin</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQUmw5QljM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQUmw5QljM</a> Dr Mike Yeadon</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboEkVl9ooc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboEkVl9ooc</a> Ivor Cummins fantastic analysis of covid19.</p><p><br /></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-92178327076379862652020-10-29T13:26:00.002+00:002020-10-29T13:28:19.549+00:00Facts help to dispel fear<p>Please watch the latest brilliant analysis by Ivor Cummins about covid19/SARS CoV-2. He presents the facts, which the Irish government, NPHET and the HSE are not doing. They are deliberately inducing fear and panic and keeping us in the dark. That sounds my radar. When people want you afraid, and want you to stay afraid, they are up to no good.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tq3AaceihtI" width="415" youtube-src-id="Tq3AaceihtI"></iframe></div><p><a href="https://covid19ireland.squarespace.com/blog/scientific-evidence-of-lockdown-insanity" target="_blank">Lockdown</a> and draconian fascist laws are not about a virus and they are certainly not about health. </p><p>Ireland is currently under lockdown at level 5. The government have deemed clothes and shoes "non-essential" items, so clothes and shoe shops are shut. But these items can be bought in some supermarkets. There are police guarding these "non essential items" to intimidate, scare and fine people for breaching laws that are supposedly protecting the vulnerable. The vulnerable that the government and the health service never gave a shit about before covid19, nor after. How is being able to buy a winter coat for your child spreading covid19 or not protecting the vulnerable? It is now a crime to buy a non essential item, but child trafficking, abuse, murder, corruption are not serious enough for police to be on hand for.</p><p>We cannot go further than 5 kilometres from our homes or we risk being fined (€500 - €2500, imprisoned, or both). There is no advice about having adequate vitamin D levels (see the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vitamin+d+and+covid19" target="_blank">many studies</a> showing the link between covid19 and low vitamin D levels), strengthening our immune systems and the simple act of being able to breathe fresh air without a useless mask. Look at this <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/504219-danish-mask-study-rejected-coronavirus/" target="_blank">Danish study</a> that journals refuse to publish, I wonder why?</p><p>I will continue to speak out about the horror I see happening right in front of our eyes. What's more worrying to me are the people who justify lockdowns, mask wearing etc., or see no wrong in what is being done in the name of "health" and public "protection". But more of us need to wake up to what's going on, that's for sure. Our rights are being eroded and some are being <a href="http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/attitudes/brainwashing/" target="_blank">brainwashed</a> into thinking that looking to maintain your human rights is selfish. The old divide and conquer routine, it works every time if we let it.</p><p>I don't think any person of 80 or 90 years of age wants children traumatised, conditioned, brainwashed, or wanting to take their life. Not being able to sleep because of high anxiety and feeling too depressed to leave the house, even though they can only go 5km from their house. As Ivor Cummins says in the video "<span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For people who think, still, that lockdown maybe helped this be better than it was [initial peak in deaths back in April], we now have many many papers published with the analysis where <a href="https://tinyurl.com/lockdownscostlives" target="_blank">lockdown is shown again</a> and again and again to have very limited impact on mortality. The best thing lockdown does is kind of ruin your society but it gives no bang for the buck.</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">More <a href="https://covid19ireland.squarespace.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-covid-19" target="_blank">resources.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it ~ </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noam Chomsky</span></b></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-38988744011863750192020-10-26T13:09:00.002+00:002020-10-26T13:23:01.876+00:00Afraid, helpless and entrapped<p>If you wanted to induce trauma, create fear, helplessness and entrap people. Give them no chance of escape so they feel/are defeated.</p><p>This is what many governments are doing in the name of "protecting" the vulnerable. The vulnerable that were essentially ignored and underfunded before, and after, covid19.</p><p>Governments and the mainstream media are deliberately traumatising people. They are trying to bring us to our knees, not with social distancing, but with social isolation. A totally different animal. </p><p>This is not about a virus. And it certainly isn't about health. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMe1p3avnpps3be7Ev4BMxvqU5DwxEKc3STK87QfdlFzO0J3uLPZ9nFgXRBUKE3BLLSA7LFupnx2gzbYWXjtmKqzGcjap04_BTtXda04b5l0tELVeoVAoDkGG9L2EtwqvbhG0BF5nQyTD/s500/core_ingredientsblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTMe1p3avnpps3be7Ev4BMxvqU5DwxEKc3STK87QfdlFzO0J3uLPZ9nFgXRBUKE3BLLSA7LFupnx2gzbYWXjtmKqzGcjap04_BTtXda04b5l0tELVeoVAoDkGG9L2EtwqvbhG0BF5nQyTD/s16000/core_ingredientsblog.jpg" /></a></div><p>Ireland has some of the most draconian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nny1OKBj-Y" target="_blank">lockdown laws</a> in place right now under level 5. It is like living in a dystopian science fiction nightmare.</p><p>As a mental health professional, I am absolutely horrified at what is going on and what continues to go on under the guise of a "pandemic", which it no longer is.</p><p>What is happening to our children is particularly heinous. Our lovely, innocent and vulnerable children are being conditioned, manipulated and emotionally blackmailed into believing that they are vectors for a "deadly" virus, which Professor John Lee says has an infection mortality rate of 0.05% in the under 70s, which means 99.95% survive covid19 under 70 years of age. There are many thousands of scientists and doctors who say the same thing but they are ignored and censored.</p><p>Look for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRu6Mgb49Uk" target="_blank">facts</a> instead of being taken in by all the constant scare and guilt mongering, <a href="https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/10/24/how-deadly-is-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1ao_duoJbhlOBXTIYF-qmQf_6A7x_ba7NfvSQU-YnQ6bqKE7LtX8GLTTE" target="_blank">facts</a> help to <a href="https://vimeo.com/471209407/bbb41112a0?fbclid=IwAR3YhKQc8PdzVdGsH-aKjB8MgaBjdQwFqUn-hgxDB3OomAniNKA2n-zCnns" target="_blank">dispel fear</a>. </p><p>The mainstream are brainwashing people into believing that wanting to maintain our human rights is selfish and people are falling for it.</p><p>Let's look after our vulnerable properly, instead of empty, manipulative lies to make people feel guilty for something they are not doing. </p><p>I want a better normal, not a so-called "new normal". This slogan is yet another example of the outrageous conditioning/brainwashing we are being subjected to 24/7.</p><p>What is happening is characteristic of what happens in a cult. To read more on cults see: <a href="https://www.cultrecover.com/cultdef" target="_blank">https://www.cultrecover.com/cultdef</a></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-69985498257876989682020-10-22T19:05:00.006+01:002020-10-22T19:10:06.509+01:00Conspiracy theorists, personality disorders and the mentally ill<p>There is a really worrying trend right now in the mental health field and that is to call anyone who is a "conspiracy theorist" mentally ill. I've also noticed some mental health "professionals" deriding and shaming people who question authority and/or authority figures. This has come to the fore because of covid19. If you dare question the one acceptable narrative, you're mentally ill, a conspiracy theorist and any other insults they can hurl at you.</p><p>Carl Jung is famous for popularising the phenomenon of individuation and if you have ever had the privilege of raising a child or seeing a child being raised, you'll know that at around 18 months to 2 years old, their most commonly used word is No. This is the natural start of the healthy individuation process from the parent and it is crucial that parents not only respect a child's No, but encourage it. All too often parents squash a child's No, making the child doubt and not trust themselves. So it really appalls me, and worries me, that some in the mental health field see questioning authority as a bad thing, or even as something linked to "mental illness".</p><p>What I'd really like to know is who gets to define what a conspiracy theory actually is? The mainstream? It seems so, because they are the only people who use the term, the so-called "normal" people. It isn't politically correct anymore to ridicule marginalised people, which of course is only right, but not if it's just for show, to signal virtue which really isn't there. The only group people are allowed, and encouraged, by the mainstream to ridicule, insult and disparage are the so-called conspiracy theorists, the anti-vaxxers, the anti-maskers, and on and on with these ludicrous terms. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTV7cXPtuSdcbXpZp16QzL8sDEeYY606rKkdXRQAUcsIOP1JztDa7elQ0CvV3DRUuMsNCLy3FW5tEKz4NDGf9zSGVKVIf6Hj9oM6fOn6q0vnPczZfHuGS-JYmmJLPu-0dUqQHBpkMCYj-d/s500/maggie_kuhn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTV7cXPtuSdcbXpZp16QzL8sDEeYY606rKkdXRQAUcsIOP1JztDa7elQ0CvV3DRUuMsNCLy3FW5tEKz4NDGf9zSGVKVIf6Hj9oM6fOn6q0vnPczZfHuGS-JYmmJLPu-0dUqQHBpkMCYj-d/s16000/maggie_kuhn.jpg" /></a></div><p>Lissa Rankin posted an article the other day which truly appalled me. It was titled <a href="https://lissarankin.com/the-psychology-of-why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories/?inf_contact_key=e0c163dfc28dd272cfc1bbb18f1f0570f651f238aa2edbb9c8b7cff03e0b16a0&fbclid=IwAR2Ed8RYhbTYg-r8LJ16abgRq6ysF1z0VeV9p91-8My9bXNudMIj0ewwLZ0" target="_blank">"The Psychology Of Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories: A Compassionate Lens to Help You Understand Loved Ones You Lost Down The Rabbit Hole"</a>.</p><p>Some quotes from the article that I found particularly awful:</p><p>"The truth is that you’re not likely to alter someone’s point of view with facts if they’ve been seduced into cultish conspiracy thinking, especially if the facts you use (mainstream science journals, mainstream media) are part of their conspiracy paranoia". </p><p>Another cracker:</p><p>"Where does black and white thinking come from? It tends to ride shotgun with mental illness, especially personality disorders. In short, it’s a trauma symptom and therefore deserves our understanding and our compassion. When people are hurt, especially when they’re hurt with early childhood developmental trauma and attachment wounding, there can be a tendency to polarize into immature cognitive processes like black and white thinking"</p><p>Lissa conflates conspiracy theories and cults, two totally different things. She tries to take a compassionate slant in her article but it ends up being patronising. </p><p>The first point I'd like to make is that people who are traumatised (most of the world's population to some degree) are NOT mentally ill. Personality "disorders" are often derided and shamed within the mental health profession. How is that helpful or compassionate? I've heard many say "they" are "unhelpable". Have you ever heard anyone from the mainstream saying that Bill Gates is on the sociopathic/psychopathic end of the personality disorder spectrum? I certainly haven't. And let's be honest, seen through that lens, he most certainly would fit the bill. If we're going to have one rule for conspiracy theorists, let's apply it to everyone for fairness sake.</p><p>Using Lissa's own logic, the mainstream is a cult. Mainstream thinking believes it is right, they have a monopoly on being right, everyone else is wrong. This is completely compatible with her idea of black and white thinking. Only ONE accepted narrative on anything is tolerated in the mainstream and again this is especially true with covid19. And if you deviate from the mainstream you're a conspiracy theorist. If that's not black and white thinking I don't know what is. The hypocrisy and lack of insight is astounding.</p><p>The second point I'd like to make is that many studies in scientific journals have been sponsored by big pharma so they have gross conflicts of interest. In my opinion, it is very wise and prudent to not trust/dig deeper into these studies which have usually been "cooked". Am I a conspiracy theorist because I say this or because I trust the real scientists who take these studies apart to show just how flawed and conflicted they are?</p><p>The mainstream has brainwashed people into believing covid19 is deadly, which is why the mainstream fits her definition of what a cult is. But they don't realise they've been brainwashed (typical cult behaviour). Covid19 is deadly to some, like the flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, starvation and dehydration is. Is it more deadly? No. Look at the facts, it affects mostly older people with underlying conditions. Is it more sad when someone dies of covid19 than starvation? No. All deaths, for whatever reason, are sad. Do we lockdown for anything else? No.</p><p>Covid19 does not justify older people dying alone, the scandals of people dying in nursing homes, lockdowns, isolation, people being punished with fines, public shaming, curfews, not being able to go beyond 5 kilometres form your home, not being able to go to funerals or weddings, mandatory masks, even for children in some countries, waiting for a vaccine (the saviour, another cult characteristic) so lockdowns can be lifted, people losing their homes, jobs, not being able to put food on the table, rising suicides, rising domestic abuse, rising child abuse, the disgraceful brainwashing of children that they are dangerous and vectors of a "deadly" virus and the world being under near total tyranny.</p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-3972303130023031282020-10-20T13:59:00.005+01:002020-10-20T13:59:46.151+01:00Oct 20th Shocking Data - Endemic Virus versus Damaging Lockdowns<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PRu6Mgb49Uk" width="480"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a brilliant piece of analysis by Ivor Cummins on the current lockdown in Ireland. I'm sharing this as I believe what's happening the world over is horrendous and not enough mental health professionals are speaking out about it. </div>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-10696068605024841322020-09-25T14:04:00.001+01:002020-09-25T14:13:33.178+01:00Our social engagement system<p>A Harvard study, nearly 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer and be happier. Robert Waldinger*, the director of the study said: “The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health". </p><p>I don't know why this is surprising. We all know, and feel, when we don't have connection, community or love in our lives. It is one of the greatest poverties and traumas we can endure. We only have to look around the world to see the devastating effects of traumatic ruptures in families and communities.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6unafAK9reYU6nhjDMydP3olqwwHyhu56_l51sbrfJIP-NYZ5qYOpAknIok5uWrcPGs8QzcILP7IqcNd4pkHs4dbik9JX8GU8iDhT0W2_WK5nLV8R1D3lElDiZT3TnNHbaydJcAxgEEi/s500/social_crucifiedblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6unafAK9reYU6nhjDMydP3olqwwHyhu56_l51sbrfJIP-NYZ5qYOpAknIok5uWrcPGs8QzcILP7IqcNd4pkHs4dbik9JX8GU8iDhT0W2_WK5nLV8R1D3lElDiZT3TnNHbaydJcAxgEEi/w400-h400/social_crucifiedblog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Stephen Porges' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8-qebjIgs" target="_blank">Polyvagal Theory</a> has shown us just how important <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxS3bv32-UY" target="_blank">social engagement</a> is for our health. The social engagement system is the newest evolution of nervous system. It enables us to connect, engage and feel loved in ways that have helped us evolve, live longer and stay healthy. The soft warm gaze of a mother, face to face with her baby, using soothing sounds is a perfect example of what social engagement can accomplish: secure attachment.</p><p>We cannot do without social engagement and the powers that be know this. Solitary confinement is one of the worst punishments doled out in prisons because they know it brings a person to their knees. Their mental and physical health suffers terribly which is exactly why it is used.</p><p>What's the difference between that and world governments forcing lockdowns, social distancing and mask wearing for a virus with a survival rate of 99.99%? There have been more suicides, cases of anxiety, depression and trauma because of this strategy. Not to mention the effects it has on our physical health and immune systems. </p><p>We need to ask, are lockdowns and social distancing being used in the same way that solitary confinement is used? Are they being used to bring us to our knees? We cannot say we live in democracies if we cannot have an open discussion about how such a huge, forced change has affected the way we live our lives.</p><p>As <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ali.zeck/" target="_blank">Ali Zeck</a> said in her post today: "You cannot be in the arena of mental health today and affect change or truly help people without discussing the psychological abuse and gaslighting that humans on this planet are currently undergoing, otherwise you’re participating in the gaslighting by not talking about the elephant in the room, so large that he’s cutting off everyone’s oxygen".</p><p>“Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism" ~ Robert Waldinger</p><p>*Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.</p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-12138516317502626502020-09-11T13:24:00.004+01:002020-09-11T21:50:20.127+01:00The trauma of covid19<p>During the lockdown, I have seen many mental health professionals question the mental health of those who question authority. I think this is appalling and anything but professional or trauma informed.</p><p>There is a big difference between being authoritative and authoritarian and all governments are being tyrannical and authoritarian, except Sweden, in their handling of the corona virus as far as I can see. </p><p>According to <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/05/medical-technocracy.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200905Z2&mid=DM641307&rid=956930245" target="_blank">mercola.com</a>, "Based on deaths per capita, the global average death rate for COVID-19 is 0.009%. The average person’s chance of surviving this disease is 99.991%".</p><p>How on earth can lockdown, mandatory mask wearing, suicide, depression, trauma, people dying alone, people losing their jobs, houses and who don't have enough money to feed themselves be justified if 99.991% of us are surviving covid19? It cannot be justified. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdzrxgetM8ysnKM_e7Zwqa_JvK-t70uOt3L387VoEfJLx5NrAMFnvAvAie4I8pvQxsBh2slsQFNRgrmpsmxgHA0EQ1rTTUoux60khCFC4DLeDWbRDN4f2dx4Eo-SQ9SOun-Yrz0LBggiQS/s500/kelly_brogan_blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdzrxgetM8ysnKM_e7Zwqa_JvK-t70uOt3L387VoEfJLx5NrAMFnvAvAie4I8pvQxsBh2slsQFNRgrmpsmxgHA0EQ1rTTUoux60khCFC4DLeDWbRDN4f2dx4Eo-SQ9SOun-Yrz0LBggiQS/w400-h400/kelly_brogan_blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>We need to protect our vulnerable, not just from covid19, but from anything that can harm them and the same goes for all 7.8 billion of us. The PR spin we are being subjected to, is just that, as the cases of disgraceful nursing home deaths all over the world shows.</p><p>We have locked down for covid19, why haven't we locked down for the flu? The flu kills more people than covid19, as revised statistics are showing. If we heard the fatality statistics for any infection or disease, day after day after day, non-stop, we would be afraid of getting it. This fear mongering for covid19 cannot be justified in any way, except to control people.</p><p>This is one of the most traumatic times that human beings have ever faced. This affects the entire world, all 7.8 billion of us. Our basic human rights to informed consent, bodily sovereignty and medical freedom are being seriously infringed and taken away, bit by bit. Death by a thousand cuts, unless we take a stand.</p><p>It is my view that to question authority is in fact a really healthy thing to do and is part of the individuation process that Carl Jung talks about. </p><p>My heart breaks for the children having to wear masks all day in school, have their temperatures taken and to socially distance. This is no way for children to grow up. The war on viruses, like the war on terror, drugs, cancer, will not work. These 'wars' are ludicrous. Humans have evolved over millions of years with viruses, bacteria and so on. Governments (and corporations) are teaching our children to be afraid of their own and others' bodies, and I am just appalled at this. It is criminal.</p><p>As far as I'm concerned, there are no experts, only people with expertise. People who refer to themselves as experts have put themselves on a pedestal as if to say they know it all. No one knows it all. People with expertise realise they are always learning, the learning journey never ends. </p><p>The people with expertise who I am learning from on this issue are Jack Kruse, Kelly Brogan, Zach Bush, Ben Lynch, Joseph Mercola, Joseph Yi, Dolores Cahill, Christiane Northrup, Andrew Kaufman, Robert F. Jennedy Jr and amazing politicians taking a stand for truth like Sara Cunial in Italy, to name a few. Watch her address the Italian parliament, it is inspiring <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9InUJC2VOo&frags=pl%2Cwn" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9InUJC2VOo&frags=pl%2Cwn</a></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-88747958605533044712020-09-11T12:14:00.003+01:002020-09-11T12:17:29.521+01:00Legal exemptions for not wearing face masks in Ireland<p>Please watch this video by barrister, Tracey O'Mahony, on reasonable excuses you can legally avail of not to wear a mask in Ireland. You can download the forms she provides, under the video. You will not get this information from gov.ie, though they do give reasons why some people don't have to wear a mask. I'm sharing this because I believe that it can be very traumatic for some people to have to wear masks and also because I am an advocate for bodily sovereignty and medical freedom in all cases.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TLTTo2dnWh8" width="320" youtube-src-id="TLTTo2dnWh8"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-858314368019918082020-08-07T18:20:00.004+01:002020-08-07T18:20:54.103+01:00We can't hold our pain on our own<div>We can't hold our pain on our own. We need attunement, not just as babies, but all throughout our life. That need never goes away, nor should it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Peter Levine says that trauma is what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. Maybe this is what really hurts us, having no one to hold us, no one who believes us, validates us and our experiences, nowhere to rest and be our self.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxCVZo1sjzwvyxKdpXpTvBGHmBAa-t6nG_hp0xLk5KugJ_WY5SGf4Nm7xfhDfsrRkufE3mOg9z11hB4jwvDXfmAZwaqLq2NTKRUh2aVaR557hftn7GFnnArD7p6WIgm_wL36vZy0RWGiW/s500/holdourpainblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxCVZo1sjzwvyxKdpXpTvBGHmBAa-t6nG_hp0xLk5KugJ_WY5SGf4Nm7xfhDfsrRkufE3mOg9z11hB4jwvDXfmAZwaqLq2NTKRUh2aVaR557hftn7GFnnArD7p6WIgm_wL36vZy0RWGiW/s0/holdourpainblog.jpg" /></a></div><div>Self-regulation (the ability to soothe our self) is a myth, says Bonnie Badenoch and I agree with her. We always need co-regulation, even when we're on our own, we're drawing from a well of having been supported throughout our life and the warmth of knowing we have someone now. Hopefully we all have the fortune to have people in our life that can hold our emotional experiences with us, and if not we can work towards that. </div><div><br /></div><div>Robert Stolorow calls this a 'relational home'. He says, "Emotional experience is inseparable from the contexts of attunement and malattunement in which it is felt. Painful emotional experiences become enduringly traumatic in the absence of a relational home or context of human understanding within which they can be held and integrated".</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't go it alone, reach out.</div>Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-13980075042981773882020-07-01T15:22:00.000+01:002020-07-01T15:23:07.319+01:00Where do you spend most of your time?When we're living with unresolved trauma, we spend a lot of time around the middle and bottom part of the polyvagal ladder. We do this by necessity because there are internal threat(s) and/or external threat(s) which we need to avoid.<br />
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Internal threats usually involve us fighting difficult emotions, physical sensations. Not wanting to feel or go inside because it is too painful, and mobilising against our self as if we were the enemy. Being stuck in fight and flight takes a huge personal toll on our physical and mental health. When fighting or fleeing get too much for us, or they are not possible, we'll dissociate and check out.<br />
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We can circle in and out of flight, fight and shutdown for years if our traumatic experiences aren't healed. External threats are more difficult to resolve, there is something we can do about internalised threats, but we often have little control or agency over external threats such as oppression, sexism, racism, tyranny, police states, poverty, war and so on.<br />
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Ideally we'd all be living most, or all, of our life in the ventral vagal state; feeling safe, social, connected and engaged. We'd only need to flee, fight, or dissociate in extrenuous circumstances and with support and community, we'd return to feeling safe, supported and loved. It is crucially important for us to exercise agency over what we can in order to improve our health and resolve trauma. This involves learning to trust our self and finding what works for us.<br />
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To find out more about the polyvagal ladder, check out <a href="http://www.debdanalcsw.com/resources/BG%20for%20ROR%20II.pdf" target="_blank">Deb Dana's website</a>.Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-11462761905237860252020-06-16T16:03:00.000+01:002020-06-16T16:03:18.597+01:00When you lose your body, you lose your selfChapter 6 in the book, <i>The Body Keeps the Score</i> by Bessel van der Kolk is called: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self. The excerpt below is from this chapter and illustrates the importance of our interoceptive sense and befriending our body.<br />
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"What is your brain doing when you have nothing on in particular on your mind? It turns out that you pay attention to yourself. The default state activates the brain areas that work together to create your sense of "self".<br />
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When Ruth [Lanius] looked at the scans of her normal subjects, she found activation of default state network (DSN) regions that previous researchers had described. I like to call this the Mohawk of self-awareness, the midline structures of the brain, starting out right above our eyes, running through the center of the brain all the way to the back. All these midline structures are involved in our sense of self. The largest bright region at the back of the brain is the posterior cingulate, which gives us a physical sense of where we are—our internal GPS. It is strongly connected to the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), the watchtower. It is also connected with brain areas that register sensations coming from the rest of the body: the insula, which relays messages from the viscera to the emotional centers; the parietal lobes, which integrate sensory information; and the anterior cingulate, which coordinates emotions and thinking. All of these areas contribute to consciousness.<br />
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The contrast with the scans of the eighteen chronic PTSD patients with severe early-life trauma was startling. There was almost no activation of any of the self-sensing areas of the brain … There could be only one explanation for such results. In response to the trauma itself, and in coping with the dread that persisted long afterward, these patients had learned to shut down the brain areas that transmit the visceral feelings and emotions that accompany and define terror. Yet in everyday life, those same brain areas are responsible for registering the entire range of emotions and sensations that form the foundation of our self-awareness, our sense of who we are. What we witnessed here was a tragic adaptation: In an effort to shut off terrifying sensations, they also deadened their capacity to feel fully alive".Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-43815776299793984882020-06-05T13:37:00.001+01:002020-06-05T13:39:45.383+01:00How do I create safety?I was asked the other day how I create safety in a session. And it was hard to answer off the cuff but it's a crucially important question and it got me thinking. Some of the obvious answers are being present, attuned, active listening and taking someone's experiences seriously. You would think that these therapeutic ingredients would be a given, but they are not. As a client I have had many experiences with therapists/practitioners who didn't listen, were anything but attuned and even gave me a different treatment than what I had asked for and then acted like I shouldn't have complained! Needless to say, the foundations are essential.<br />
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But there are some intangibles to creating safety and feeling safe that I think are ineffable. Safety is felt, it isn't explained, we can't talk someone into feeling safe, we create the right conditions and ingredients and it is a continuous process. It's like a good parent, they use actions as well as soft soothing words to meet the needs of their baby and the baby then learns they can trust them and as a result they feel safe. They have 'evidence' for knowing they can feel safe and a client needs evidence too. You'll know whether you feel safe or not (or the possibility of growing safer), it is a case of trusting the answers your body gives you.<br />
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I think using intuition can create quantum leaps in therapeutic work, which again is about trust; this can also create more safety, as a client can feel more heard when you intuit what's going on or how they're feeling. The best container that I know of is an attuned relationship, and healthy containment helps us feel safe. I am not a fan of container exercises as the bodymind will do what it does and get triggered etc. between sessions. It can't "obey" instructions to keep difficult stuff in, that stuff wants to be heard and seen. Learning to be the container for difficult emotions and sensations, rather than looking outside for containers, that often don't work in my experience and can make someone feel inadequate or that they're doing it wrong, is much more empowering.Noreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-46699492365364555932020-05-01T13:37:00.001+01:002020-05-01T13:37:50.249+01:00Attachment "disorders"How is it that a baby who wanted and needed to attach ends up with a diagnosis of attachment "disorder" as an adult? We really need to stop describing trauma as a disorder and a mental illness.<br />
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Babies are not ambivalent, avoidant, insecure or disorganised by nature, it is lack of nurture that causes them to develop this way.<br />
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A baby can't attach to a moving, neglectful or abusive target. By moving I mean someone who isn't emotionally available. Emotional abuse and neglect doesn't get half the credence and weight they deserve. In addition, there is always emotional abuse alongside physical and sexual abuse.<br />
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However, there are always exceptions to every rule. There are some parents who, despite their own traumas, have made some sense of them, they might still have some unresolved issues (don't we all?), but they own them and take responsibility for working on them. They are not projecting their unlived life onto their child.<br />
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I don't believe the saying that you can't give what you never got, you can. You can break the cycle and love your baby the way you weren't loved.<br />
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<b>We are not survival of the fittest. We are survival of the nurtured ~ Louis Cozolino</b></div>
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This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you ~ Hafiz<br />
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Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost ~ Erol Ozan<br />
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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker ~ Garth Nix<br />
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I honour every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another ~ Harriet Hosmer<br />
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence ~ Henry David Thoreau<br />
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Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking ~ Antonio Machado<br />
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Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another's perfectly ~ Bhagavad GitaNoreen Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04398860243786913489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347448764992637555.post-31022403469815055682020-03-05T14:04:00.001+00:002020-03-05T14:04:45.453+00:00Tapping on implicit memoriesIf an <a href="https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/implicit-memory" target="_blank">implicit memory</a> is triggered, the cause isn't always obvious because nothing might have happened to upset us. It can feel like these feelings and body sensations are coming out of the blue and this what we can find very frightening and confusing, because there is no obvious explanation for them.<br />
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This is because implicit memories are very early memories. Big feelings and body sensations can feel extremely frightening to a baby and child and when these feelings come up later we're left wondering what is happening. I often use a combination of EFT and <a href="https://noreenbarron.blogspot.com/2017/06/breaking-things-down-into-small-chunks.html" target="_blank">pendulation</a> which is from somatic experiencing, developed by Peter Levine. They work seamlessly together. Try tapping on:<br />
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<b>Even though it feels like this memory came out of nowhere, I accept how I feel</b><br />
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<b>Even though I don't understand where this is coming from, I accept how I feel</b><br />
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<b>Even though this feeling/body sensations feels … I honour my feelings</b><br />
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Top of the head: I feel frightened<br />
Eyebrow: Of ...<br />
Side of eye: I don't understand where this ... is coming from<br />
Under eye: I'll tap<br />
Under nose: And breathe<br />
Under chin: This is a really early feeling<br />
Collar bone: That I just couldn't feel<br />
Under arm: It was too big for me<br />
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Top of the head: Maybe I can feel some it now<br />
Eyebrow: 10% (feel in to what feels right for you)<br />
Side of eye: That feels ...<br />
Under eye: That must have been so frightening for me<br />
Under nose: No wonder it short circuited my nervous system<br />
Under chin: Maybe it's coming up now so I can feel it<br />
Collar bone: And calm and soothe little me<br />
Under arm: S/he needs me<br />
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Top of the head: I can be there for me<br />
Eyebrow: Slowly but surely<br />
Side of eye: It's ok if I feel afraid too<br />
Under eye: We understand how each other is feeling<br />
Under nose: If I feel overwhelmed<br />
Under chin: I can stop<br />
Collar bone: Or find another place in my body that feels ok<br />
Under arm: And move my attention<br />
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Top of the head: Between the two places<br />
Eyebrow: 30 seconds with my knee<br />
Side of eye: And 10 seconds with this awful feeling<br />
Under eye: Back to my knee which feels neutral<br />
Under nose: And I'll keep tapping<br />
Under chin: And breathing<br />
Collar bone: Until I feel calmer<br />
Under arm: That feels ...<br />
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