Trauma activates our 'back brain' and shuts off large sections of our 'front brain'. Recovery from trauma involves getting our front brain back online consistently. But what are the front and back brains and what are the key differences between them? This poster explains the concept in super-simple terms.

Understanding the drama triangle: a guide to recognising and transforming trauma-based relational patterns. Stephen Karpman's concept of the 'drama triangle' is an incredibly useful framework through which to understand relationships, and even more so after trauma. This explainer article (downloadable PDF) provides a straightforward guide both to the 'drama triangle' concept itself, as well as it to its relevance to working therapeutically with, and recovering from, trauma.

Grounding is a helpful technique, but it is just a technique, not an end in itself. Grounding can be helpful, and it can also be unhelpful – when it is offered not in the client's best interests, for the wrong reasons, or inappropriately. This PDF poster provides a comprehensive list of the do's and don'ts of grounding, and how a therapist needs to be in the green zone themselves in order to help a client return there.

Family members, partners and friends play a crucial role in trauma recovery by creating conditions which support nervous system healing. This explainer article, available as a downloadable PDF, explores the neuroscience of trauma responses and offers practical approaches for partners and household members – from respecting autonomy and maintaining calm communication to understanding dissociation, sleep disturbances, and the non-linear nature of recovery.

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.

‘We are what we eat,’ the saying goes. But actually, we feel what we eat – as this poster, from our ‘Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma’ course helps to show. It shows the surprising link between our gut health and mood, which is more important than ever after trauma.