Trauma and Relationships
Orit discusses how trauma can manifest in the body, triggering instinctual responses that may sabotage relationships. Whether in monogamous or non-monogamous contexts, the underlying fears—such as abandonment—can surface in similar ways, yet the narratives differ. Dedeker highlights the impact of cultural messaging on non-monogamous individuals, emphasizing the emotional layers that complicate their experiences and reactions to past relationship events.In this clip
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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
455 - My Brain Understands, But My Body is Panicking (with Orit Krug)
Related Questions
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 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 in the process Andrew describes to erase fear and traumas in the episode "Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time - Dr Russell Kennedy | Modern Wisdom Podcast 563" and the clip "Memory and Trauma"?