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.

• Anxiety
• Being triggered by intense emotions
  • reactionary moments to intense emotions
• 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.
• Several components of trauma when we hurt ourselves physically (i.e. fall off of a bike)
  • physiologically
  • emotionally
  • memories of past trauma and somatics: the issues are in the tissues (trauma store in the body)
• 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