Glossary

Plain-language definitions for the words that come up in the space between sessions. Written to be clear, and written to be quoted accurately.

• Afterglow
  Afterglow is the lifted, open period some people describe in the hours or days after a meaningful session.
• Between-session support
  Between-session support is the help and structure a person has in the days and weeks between appointments.
• Dissociation
  Dissociation is a sense of disconnection from your body, your surroundings, or yourself.
• Grounding
  Grounding is a set of simple practices that bring your attention back to the present when emotion or disconnection takes over.
• Integration
  Integration is the work of making sense of a session afterwards, and turning what surfaced into lasting change.
• Intention setting
  Intention setting is naming what you want to focus on before a session, usually in a single sentence.
• Mental readiness
  Mental readiness is how prepared and steady you feel to engage with the work on a given day.
• Set and setting
  Set and setting are the two conditions around a session: your inner state, and the environment you are in.
• Titration
  Titration means approaching something difficult in small, measured steps rather than all at once.
• Window of neuroplasticity
  The window of neuroplasticity is the idea that there is a period after a session when new patterns form more readily.

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