RIM® for Organic Emotional

Using RIM® for Organic Emotional Healing from Trauma

4/21/2021

Presented by Garret Biss, CPRC, MRED and Michael Kline 1


P r e s e n t e d b y : M i c h a e l K l i n e a n d G a r r e t B i s s , C P R C , M R E D

Webinar Facilitator:Samson Teklemariam, LPC, CPTM

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CE Hours Available:1.5 CE

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CE Certificate for Non-members:$20

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Using GoToWebinar(Live participants only)

Control Panel

Asking Questions

Handouts

Audio (phone option)

Polling Questions


Michael J. Kline

• Senior Trainer, The RIM® Institute

• Founder, Intus

• Sarasota, Florida

• www.Intus.Life/NAADAC

Garret Biss

• Lead Trainer & Program Developer, Diamond Mind, LLC

• New Bern, North Carolina

• www.Online.ThrivingInYourRecovery.com

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🏁 Our Goal for Today…

Introduce RIM® and demonstrate how RIM®

is a promising technique for use by addiction professionals

1. Introduction to RIM®

2.Audience Experience With RIM ®

3.Foundation & Benefits of RIM®

4.Concepts Supporting RIM®

5.Applications & Studies of RIM®

Our Plan for Today…

Webinar Learning ObjectivesParticipants will be able to:

Explain a person’s organic Emotional Operating System (EOS) and how it allows negative emotions to dissolve naturally.

Facilitate a process to experience their intangible feelings as tangible events that are safe, manageable, and able to be processed.

Explain how RIM resolves the negative emotional effects of trauma and how this reduces one’s risk for developing SUD or experiencing a relapse.

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You Will Have an Opportunity to Experience RIM ®

- RIM® or “Regenerating Images in Memory”:• Client-generated,• Body-centered process, • Activates one’s native emotional system,• Stimulates healing, insight, & problem

solving.

- Deborah Sandella, PhD, MSN, RN. • Initially synthesizing aspects of Ericksonian

hypnosis, Somatic Therapy, Interactive Guided Imagery.

• RIM evolved into a stand-alone modality with its own unique skills. (Sandella, 2016)

INTRODUCTION TO RIM®

- The RIM® process allows you to re-generate your neurologically grounded sense of Self in a profound way.

- Neuroscience findings support the efficacy of RIM® by explaining that the brain and nervous system is “plastic” or changeable.

- Recalling a memory biochemically destabilizes it, so it can be recreated in an affirming way.

How does RIM® work?

(Sandella, 2019)

INTRODUCTION TO RIM®

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Polling Question 1

What do you already know about RIM®?

A. Never heard of it.

B. I think I have heard of it but not sure what it is.

C. I am familiar with RIM® and excited to learn more about it.

D. I have personally experienced RIM® as a client or practitioner.

RIM®

ExperiencePrimer

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YOU CAN’T DO IT WRONG

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

3 Things to Know About Experiencing RIM®

YOUR EXPERIENCE

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AnExperiencew/ RIM®

Hold That Thought!

Polling Question 2

What happened for you during the RIM® experience?

A. Wow! I never expected that to show up! That was profound.

B. That was interesting, I can begin to understand the potential.

C. It helped me be present or relaxed but nothing profound.

D.Nothing at all, I couldn’t focus or follow along.

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RIM® Principles Founded on premise that each person

is whole, naturally resourceful, and capable of processing their emotions in an organic way

Client is in charge (Facilitator is a guide, not the expert)

Focuses on relationship with Client and Self

Relies on what the imagination brings forth for the Client

FOUNDATION & BENEFITS OF RIM®

RIM® Principles (cont.)

Neuroplasticity, as part of the emotional operating system (EOS), allows us to rewire old experiences with new emotional endings

Emotions are a feedback system



“What we resist, not only persists, but expands.”

~ Carl Jung

The River of Emotion

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What differentiates RIM® from other methods?

Client-led & Generated

Works directly with raw emotion

High-level of Emotional Safety

Not Willpower-Driven

Promotes automatic behavioral change


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Benefits of RIM® - For CLIENT Organic emotional healing (Turning on EOS)

Accelerates sustainable transformation

Stimulates confidence and inner-peace

Preserves Recovery Capital

Fewer and less Frequent sessions

Inherent Safety Features of RIM®

Client has heightened conscious awareness

Client’s EOS provides safety

Client is the leader and facilitator the follower


Reduce burnout

Removing all resistance

No pressure to be the expert

More manageable client load

Area of specialty to earn clients and referrals

Benefits for FACILITATOR



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Key Concepts from “The Imprint of Trauma”

• Traumatic Experiences create a dissociation between factual memory and emotional memory.

• Narrative memory and emotional memory being out of sync creates lasting consequences.

• Recalling memories Destabilizes them and returns them with modifications

• Some help with “Talking Cure” retelling of a traumatic experience to sync the narrative and emotional memory. (Limitation - nature of reactivating a traumatic memory inhibits the frontal lobes and ability to put feelings into words.)

• Albert Pesso’s work with “Structures” to invoke ideal versions of past actors changing the emotional imprint of past event.

(Van K.B.A, 2014)

CONCEPTS SUPPORTING RIM®


Implications for RIM

• Using imagination to recall emotional memory and communicate with subconscious

• Processing emotional memories and drawing in ideal versions changes emotional imprint

• Virtual Resources provide emotional safety and can perform substitute function in a way that doesn’t re-traumatize.

(Van K.B.A, 2014)



Key Concepts

• Dr. Vincent Felitti study the cause of obesity in patients (ACE Study)

• During the study, radical diet had them shed a lot of weight.

• Instead of joy, more anxiety and depression, “obesity wasn’t the problem, it was the solution.”

“Not why the addiction, why the pain?” – G. Mate

• Hari -If hurt when you’re a child, come to one of two conclusions – I am powerless, or that it’s your fault and you deserved it. When you accept that as a child you accept that you don’t deserve much from life and this carries into adulthood.


See: Lost Connections (Hari, 2018)www.intus.life/NAADAC

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Implications for RIM

• If that false conclusion is not questioned as an adult or shared with another, the shame festers.

“By reconnecting a person with [his or her] childhood trauma, and showing him that an outside observer doesn’t see it as shameful, you go a significant way toward helping to them [him or her] free from some of its negative effects.”

• Hari - “Because I kept these memories locked away, I had never questioned the narrative I had developed back then. It seemed natural to me…. At first I defended the adults who had behaved this way.”


See: Lost Connections (Hari, 2018)www.intus.life/NAADAC

Garret’s Experience and Understanding (Layman’s terms)

1. Intense Events Emotionally Charged thoughts and images are imprinted in our subconscious

2. The imprints become lenses through which we see and understand the world – Distorts Our Reality.

3. An Example? So there I was…

4. In time, I was unaware of emotional imprints; numbness becomes normal state

5. To remove these negative imprints we “release the emotional charge” and remove the lens

6. Limits of talking about it; Visceral & imagery are key



Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator Candidates

TITLE: Facilitating RIM Sessions with Clients Who Suffer from Sex Addiction (Prah, 2015)

STUDY: 6 Male Clients with history of sex addiction, 1-2 sessions

NOTABLE FINDINGS (18-MONTH F/U):

Willing to take responsibility, stop blaming othersoutcomes

Improved relationships with family and higher power

APPLICATIONS & STUDIES OF RIM®


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Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator CandidatesTITLE: RIM Impact on Stress Levels of Mothers with Children with SUD (Kneier, 2016)

STUDY: 6 Participants with children experiencing SUD, 3 sessions

NOTABLE FINDINGS (BEFORE & AFTER):

Focus on Depression, Anxiety, Stress (DASS-21 for subjective assessment)

60% reduction in depression-related scores

30% reduction in stress-related scores



Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator Candidates

TITLE: Effects of RIM with Adult Children of Alcoholics (Ecke, 2018)

STUDY: 3 Participants who attend ACA 12-step groups

NOTABLE FINDINGS (3 SESSIONS OVER 3 MONTHS):

Reduction in anxiety/ social anxiety

Reduction in depression symptoms

Increased confidence



Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator CandidatesTITLE: RIM Trauma Relief Study of Four Women (McDonald, 2016)

STUDY: 4 Participants still affected by long-ago traumatic experiences Who Faced Recent Traumatic Event

NOTABLE FINDINGS (AFTER 3 SESSIONS):

Increased awareness and capacity to deal with memories;

Reduction in Comparison of Traumatic Stress Symptomology;

Improved ability to cope with residual anger and resentment.



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Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator CandidatesTITLE: RIM as Early Intervention After Traumatizing Event: Does it work? (Vesterli, 2015)

STUDY: 3 Participants Who Faced Recent Traumatic Event

NOTABLE FINDINGS:

Interviewed after 2 – 5 sessions

Noticeable decrease in stress-related symptoms reported by participants after multiple sessions



Scholarly Projects by Master RIM® Facilitator CandidatesTITLE: Impact of RIM Sessions with Certified Life Coaches (Carlson, 2016)

STUDY: Exploring effects of RIM on 7 coaches and their coaching

NOTABLE FINDINGS:

Increased empathy and awareness

As personal lives improved, professional capacity improved



What does RIM do for a Client?• Helps Client process or release

emotional remnants of past experiences that no longer serve the client

• Allows Client to anchor motivational drivers for future ambitions

• Provides process to release emotional blockages and limiting beliefs

What does RIM NOT do? • Change the past or a factual memory of

the past• Improve cognition or factual recall

COMMON QUESTIONS


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Does a client need a diagnosis to use RIM?

No. RIM supports a full range of emotional experiences.

Who is RIM not for? Those with a mental illness that interrupts their ability to discern reality: such as psychosis, schizophrenia, manic depressions, and/or paranoia.

Who can learn and use RIM? Any helping professional. Teachers, Peer Support, Coaches, Sponsors Social Workers, Therapist, Counselors, (Any member of NAADAC) .

Does RIM therapy replace need for talk therapy or coaching?No. It can be a perfect complement to other modalities, allowing deeper and faster transformation.

How long does it take to learn RIM as a facilitator and use in my work? As little as 3 months for Essentials, 2 – 3 years as a Master

COMMON QUESTIONS


Sharing. Questions?

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Facilitates deep transformation

Stands forRegenerating Images in Memory

Engage whole being: intellectual mind, emotional heart, visceral body, and human spirit.

Communicates directly with the unconscious.

Leverages latest scientific understanding for healing and behavioral change.

5 Things to Know about

RIM ®

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References (Books):

Der, K. B. (2015). The body keeps the score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma. London: Penguin Books.

Hari, J. (2018). Lost connections - uncovering the real causes of depression - and the unexp. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Sandella, D. L. (2016). Goodbye, hurt & pain: 7 simple steps for health, love, and success. Newburyport, MA: Conari Press.

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References (Scholarly Projects):

Carlson, C., Kline, M., Sweeney, C, & Sandella, D. L. (2016, October 7). Impact of RIM Sessions with Certified Life Coaches [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/impact-of-rim-sessions-with-certified-life-coaches/

E., & Sandella, D. L. (2018, March 5). Effects of Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM) with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA): 3 Case Studies [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/effects-of-regenerating-images-in-memory-rim-with-adult-children-of-alcoholics-aca-3-case-studies/

Kline, M. (2019). RIM® - Regenerating images in memory. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.intus.life/rim.html

Kneier, A., & Sandella, D. (2016, September 6). RIM Impact on Stress Levels of Mothers With Children with Substance Abuse Disorder (SUD) [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/rim-impact-on-stress-levels-of-mothers-with-children-with-substance-abuse-disorder-sud/

McDonald, M. P., & Sandella, D. L. (2016, September 06). RIM Trauma Relief Study of Four Women [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/rim-trauma-relief-study-of-four-women/

Prah, P., & Sandella, D. (2015, September 7). RIM Client with Sex addiction [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/rim-with-clients-with-sex-addiction-6-case-studies/

Vesterli, L., & Sandella, D. (2015, March 6). RIM As Early Intervention After A Traumatizing Event: Does It Work? [Scholarly project]. In The RIM Institute, The Science of RIM®. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.riminstitute.com/rim-as-early-intervention-after-a-traumatizing-event-does-it-work/

THANK YOU

MICHAEL [email protected]

GARRET [email protected]

571-330-5374

WWW.INTUS.LIFE/NAADAC


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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. – CARL JUNG

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