Looking for a way to get your PTSD triggers to stop? In this post, I’m going to teach you something that I’ve developed called The Split Sheet Exercise that will help you do just that. When you’re feeling triggered – when you’re feeling afraid – especially when you’re looking forward to a situation and feeling …
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Have you heard of the Ready for Fight or Flight Response? I discovered it as I began doing relaxation exercises to try to reduce overall tension in my body – the kind of tension that most childhood trauma survivors just live with – hardly aware of the pain it causes. So I started to …
Did you know that you can increase your anxiety and fear using those breathing techniques that are supposed to help you feel calm? In this post, I will share 6 mistakes that people make that make them feel worse instead of better when trying to breathe to relieve PTSD symptoms. The first mistake …
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Since establishing the Center for Healthy Relationships in 2001, I notice that no matter what problem individuals and couples come to solve, the obstacle obscured by obvious complaints most consistently is trauma. Childhood trauma continues in a tireless trend, sabotaging safety and security for individuals and couples by overshadowing objectively safe and potentially healthy relationships …
One of the scariest aspects of considering healing trauma is the thought of feeling our feelings. Trauma survivors know: shutting some or all feelings down helped survivors survive! I know that was true for me. I had to learn to feel my feelings as a first step to healing trauma. And, feeling my feelings seemed …