Intense Emotions: When Present Events Trigger Past Trauma
If you’ve ever experienced a trigger in the present that included noticeable body sensations, this post is for you. There’s a lot going on in our nervous systems when we experience a trigger connected to past trauma.
Apologies for the mic static on this particular video. The content is excellent, so the video was posted despite the sound issue.
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Anxiety
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Being triggered by intense emotions
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reactionary moments to intense emotions
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Energetic emotional charge connected to and related to things that have happened in the past — most of the time in our childhood; often trauma-related.
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Several components of trauma when we hurt ourselves physically (i.e. fall off of a bike)
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physiologically
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emotionally
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memories of past trauma and somatics: the issues are in the tissues (trauma store in the body)
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- There is “cause” for why we get triggered today and why we have an intense reaction
- It never happens without cause
- TRE: Trauma release exercises: discharging trauma stored in the body through shaking it out with a trained practitioner.
- Calming the nervous system to feel more ease physically and emotionally
- Just describe body sensations rather than giving them a story
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