Grounding refers to a series of techniques that can help to reorient us back into the 'green zone' of our 'window of tolerance' when we have become triggered out of it into the 'amber zone' of fight and flight or the 'red zone' of freeze. Very often when triggered we experience ourselves as being disconnected from our bodies – and this poster gives us three ways of becoming reconnected again.

The Trauma Traffic Light is a simple way of representing our responses to trauma – safety in the green zone, fight and flight in the amber zone and fight in the red zone. This poster shows what happens physiologically (in our body) in each of these zones.

In child sexual abuse, the blame and shame are dumped onto the victim by the perpetrator. In recovery, as survivors we need to find a way of reversing that process – and dumping back what doesn't belong to us. 'The Great Exchange' is how I've conceptualised what goes on with that transfer, and this poster, taken from my 'Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing' online course details it in simple terms.

Is the way we behave in our relationships a matter purely of choice, of character, or could it actually be largely influenced by our early life experiences, and especially of trauma? That's what this poster explores. It looks at the three zones of the 'Trauma Traffic Light' and how they manifest in our behaviours in our unconscious attempts to stay safe relationally.

Trauma operates via our primitive 'back brain' and switches off our thinking, choosing 'front brain'. This poster, taken from 'Webinar #2: 'Working with trauma that has become stuck', shows some of the key differences between the front brain and back brain and especially as it relates to stuckness after trauma.

Being suicidal is not a choice, or just an extreme form of depression or despair. Instead researchers suggest that there is a specific brain state that we enter – which they have dubbed ‘the suicidal mode’ – in which key parts of our logical, thinking front brain shut down. This psychoeducational poster summarises some of these impairments and comes from my online course ‘Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm’ which explains it in much more detail.