About me / Contact Info

As a member of a team I can be a priceless commodity, on my own I can be a scattered mess. 

My name is Andy Lightfoot, I am on a life journey healing from a severe case of Complex PTSD, mostly from childhood trauma, police work, forensically processing crime scenes, narcissistic abuse, and I am healing into a realized sense of presence from it all. I started Realizing Presence, LLC. to create a hub for anyone wanting to heal from psychological trauma. 

Eventually I will add in more personal content when I figure out the editing process / connect with the right people, In the meanwhile I'm getting to create something special as a hub for realizing presence, by healing the psychological trauma that was dissociating our perceptive awareness out of it in the first place. 

I have learned to practice countermeasures to help deactivate stress response operation, upregulate the higher functioning frontal lobe part of the brain as quickly and efficently as I know how to so far, and I am sharing what's working for me in hopes that it works for you, I can't guarantee it will or what will, what I want you to have are options. 

The goal is reconnecting the connection between survival brain and higher mind, and regain a sense of present moment awareness over and over again each time stress sweeps perceptive awareness away, this is whats known as Self Directed Neuroplasticity and counting the reps in recovering present moment awareness as reps in healing, and this is what I hope you learn to do very well for yourself. This website serves as a great place to share share the gold nuggets of healing I’ve found along the way, so anyone can use the materials to gain the benefits for themselves or as a peer support resource site. 

Ultimately I would love for you to get good at bringing your mind back into this present moment we're in now, regardless of where the emotional thought train took it. Also I want you to see you have the ability to do this for yourself without the use of this website or any of my assistance. Sure, utilize this website, but absorb and realize the lessons for yourSelf, learn from whatever I'm able to share, notice what resonates with you, but realize the power is within you.  

I was trying to toughen what I saw as the weak part out of myself through the days of my invincble youth, overexposing myself to graphic and morbid crime scenes. I was also trying to compensate for the pain of a toxic homelife in chasing the rush of traumatic exposures I was experiencing to be so extreme that whatever nastyness I walked into upon returning home, so I could at least feel a relaxing contrast.  

As you might imagine, I have gotten to heal through a lot of psychological trauma in order to be able to build this website today, brick by brick, you're watching it go up, and I have a lifetime of healing to go. I'm discovering so much wonderful stuff about healing through trauma, mySelf and the experrience of being alive. I realize the sense of enlightenment in myself, and the I that realizes this is mySelf, and this is who I am.. I am realizing I can share it with others through this website and provide a sense of peer support. A name I have heard given to the experience of it is Enlightenment. 

Enlighentment is not an achievement but an inate capability Everyone can realize Everyone is a sense of enlightenment, everyone has a body, the body is a biological self healing survival based organism made of atoms and a conscious energy. Enlightenment is the realization of it, we all have this capacity in us, and I hope to help you realize it for yourSelf somewhere along the way. 

In my jouney of Self discover, I've realized I have a survival trait that is commonly mistaken for autism, seen in 15-20% of the population known as, Sensory Processing Sensitivity (Coined HSP). I also have the paradoxical trait of High Sensation Seeking / novelty seeking.  I see an overwhelming amount of things in the environment whether I want to or not. Having said this, I am now aiming this set of circumstances into demystifying trauma to make it easier for anyone to heal healthier from it, and the beauty thing is I get to heal from trauma myself along the way.

I’m willing to look like a fool in front of the world to help the ones who can hear me. I know what the pain is and I’m serious about healing. For all intents and purposes, I am uneducated. I have a high school degree, but everything I’ve learned has been, “Self taught”, “off the books”. I was born in 1979 (you do the math if you want), I have no desire to go back to school to get a degree in anything I speak about, as it doesn’t make the information or the people I'm sharing any more or less valid. 

I do not plan to ever work in any clinical setting outside of peer support. I know what I’m able to share helps people and holds value, so I’m using it to the best of my ability, and I hope to be able to talk about things in such a simple way that I don’t have to debate anyone or prove anything. 

It makes sense in fair trade that if Realizing Presence provides quality enough resouces to help enough people, the chances of supporting the website through donations increases, so look for this website to develop into something special. Plus, I get to help others feel better and find a sense of relief from suffering, and this is priceless in itself to me. 

If you can donate and would like to, I thank you for your support. If you do not have any money to donate, and donating would generate a sense of financial pain, please do not donate right now. Do not put yourself in a bad position from a rescuer role, practice good self care and put your own oxygne mask on first. Gain every benefit you can from this website, free of charge, feel better.

Look for continual upgrades to this website, and most importantly look for continual

upgrades in yourself. Keep regaining a sense of present moment awareness, for longer periods of time at a time, maintain it, heal your mind healthier, and feel better. 

All the best, 

Andy Lightfoot - Realizing Presence, LLC