second aspect of mindfulness used in NARM involves bringing our adaptive survival styles and the organizing principle of each style into mindful awareness. Awareness of survival styles usually begins after a certain capacity for self-regulation has been established. As a person becomes more regulated and embodied and as internal distress states diminish, the capacity for self-awareness becomes stronger. Integrating somatic mindfulness with the mindful awareness of survival styles allows us to work with a person’s life story from a perspective that is deeper and broader than the narrative
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