Navigating Emotional Waves
Explore the complexities of hypervigilance and the importance of acknowledging our emotional states without trying to control them. Discover how comparing trauma can diminish personal experiences and the vital need to feel seen and validated. Elizabeth shares her journey of self-acceptance, emphasizing the significance of recognizing one’s unique needs and building a supportive environment for personal growth.In this clip
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Related Questions
Can you provide some insights on how to address the feelings stemming from childhood experiences with my father, who tortured and abandoned my mother and me? I often feel that these experiences are the reason I overthink and have deep thoughts. This question relates to the episode Unlocking Secure Attachment: The Nervous System's Role in Our Relationships with Sarah Baldwin, the clip Grieving What Was, the episode Psychotherapist's Hacks on How to Change Your Life | Lori Gottlieb on Impact Theory, the episode 440: Dr. Ari Langdon on Working Through Trauma & Understanding the Mind/Body Connection, the episode Authentically Developing Self-Worth | Being Well Podcast, and the clip Nurturing Inner Parts.
I'm going to a psychologist because I feel emotionless most of the time, experience manic episodes with hyperactivity and bursts of creativity, and have very down periods. When I feel 'normal,' I tend to overthink everything, which makes me very tired and socially isolated. These issues may have underlying causes such as trauma, but the fact that my neural circuits keep wiring this way concerns me. I want to know if there are other treatments for constant anxiety besides speaking therapy, as that doesn't seem to help me despite my efforts.
Did I miss something? In the clip Healing Through Sensation, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas. He says that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. 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?