Unpacking Trauma Layers
Christian shares his extensive journey through various healing practices, emphasizing the need for co-regulation with a facilitator to truly address trauma. He highlights the importance of witnessing deeper emotions, beyond just the socially acceptable ones, and peeling back layers to confront the unlovable feelings that often remain hidden. This exploration reveals how our individual stories shape our emotional responses and the therapeutic process.In this clip
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In the clip Healing Through Sensation, Andrew discusses a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
I also have a question about the episode "How to Heal Your Attachment Wounds" | Being Well Podcast, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, and the Body-Based Healing. Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?