Dissertation Research

Read my research on the roles of self-compassion and decentering in the relationship between potentially traumatic events and posttraumatic symptoms; the capacity of IFS meditation to increase state self-compassion and decentering; and the role of decentering in increasing self-compassion, in a trauma exposed sample.

TLDR: Cool research on self-compassion, decentering, and IFS meditation with folks who have been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their lives (AKA folks like most of us)!

Self-Compassion, Decentering, Trauma, and Internal Family Systems Meditation: Baseline and Intervention Analyses

Dissertation by Rakhel Shapiro, Ph.D.

Co-authors: Dr. Kevin Meehan, Dr. Sara Haden, Dr. Nicholas Papouchis, and Lyla Clark

Place (HaMakom)

Dance and prose poetry.

Pleasure, connection, power, finding it, losing it, fighting for it, coming home to my animal body…