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When this happens to me, I believe I have been switched to the primitive brain because that has no access to words. I am out of the neocortex, which has my vocabulary intact. I try to do things then that give me a sense of safety so my primitive brain can relax and I can have access to my...

Lately I think that, aside from the natural human instinct to react to injustice, when I have useless, destructive, painful, obsessed preoccupation with the old days, it is my body/mind's way of trying to recreate original traumas within so I can once and for all discharge the original trauma...

You've got options now where once you had none. Do what is best for you. I don't know if you ever tried this, but what works for me is talking to the inner child. For instance, I will say What are you afraid of? And I will listen and respond specifically, and tell her my 57 year old self will...

Can you put that anger into some kind of work out or sport? That's what I do. You need to find a safe way to release the emotional energy without hurting you or anyone else. It would be great if you could get in therapy. I prefer Somatic so I can discharge the trauma energy.

A new world could be in gestation within you. This happened to me. I wrote for decades. It was good, almost there, but I see now - not quite. I didn't write at all for a while. Got interested and involved in other things. Read a great deal, especially new subjects of interest. Then one day...

I just got the DVD on TRE and will report back re release thru psoas muscles. I know I have had tremendous relief from internal chaos, strife, tension, discomfort, pain with somatic release with T and it has also happened naturally when talking with my husband about stuff. After the tremors...

I do not lie. And to others I would like to say, Do not deny my reality. Ever.

Sea salt bath. A certain fragrance on my wrist helps in public especially. Talking softly to myself like I am taking to a child. Brilliant content isn't so important as the sound of my words - soft, gentle and comforting. Gently patting my stomach or heart or whatever is whirring. Again with...

Like @greenleaf, I can read my body better. I can know how I feel emotionally by what hurts and what feels good. The best is when my back feels like velvet - then I know "I have my back", I am taking care of and supporting myself. When my feet feel light and fluffy, I am releasing toxic emotion...

I was oblivious to the fact that I looked outside myself so often for what was wrong inside myself. I was also near fainting when I went out a lot. Didn't have good self assessment tools for creating and maintaining a sense of physical well being, or emotional well being.

This will be great. What better thing to do than build better relationships with ourselves so that we have a greater sense of well being. Montaigne said, and I paraphrase, pay attention to what you attend to because that will determine your quality of life. That's not even a paraphrase. That was...

Too true @Chava - simple things are complicated! Natural responses especially. Sometimes it's like moving heaven and earth to get myself to cry and get some release sometimes!

I don't think this is what you had, but I will just put this out there too. There are two ways I know from my body that I need to cry to release body discomfort. One way is foot pain. When I cry, it goes away immediately. Learned that by accident. The other way is when it feels like there is...

That is fantastic and inspiring. Thank you. And excellent work!

It is terrifying to feel like you are dying! Nothing is so scary as a panic attack because you don't know what will help and it feels awful. I hope you were able to become calm and sleep. This is just my experience but some people, and I am one of them, become more panicked by "calming down"...

I got a card from Capital One right away, unasked. I had to pay a fee every month for a lousy $500 credit. I don't care for Capital One. Trying to close a card was very difficult. At least that was my experience.

I went bankrupt about seventeen years ago. Back then, there were two choices you could make. One was you paid nothing to anyone. I think the other was some kind of payment plan, which was not a possibility for me given the debt. I don't know if these two choices remain or if there are more. You...

I believe medical issue related bills are the chief cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. I went bankrupt years ago. That's what happens sometimes. I don't think that morning mantra is doing anything but bringing you down. Did someone else talk to you that way systematically once upon a time by any...

Welcome! I had a dad who drank too. So happy you are here!

I feel like maybe I get calm in big emergencies because that's when my insides (generally always in a state of emergency) are in harmony with the outside world around me, suddenly in crisis. Everything fits. No disparity between outer and inner. I mesh! And, of course, emergency is my home...

Just taking a stab here. Could it be that the powerlessness you felt in response to the idea of not being able to be there for your daughter triggered your childhood experience? when there was, at least there was in mine, so much terror, and feelings of powerlessness and helplessness perhaps? I...

Lessened with somatic therapy. It's been one of my biggest pet peeves. It also lessened while I was on an anti-depressant for 25 years, til the med stopped working. (Then I did somatic therapy. Much to be preferred because it sticks. Don't need a pill anymore.)

If you are looking for release and relief of PTSD symptoms, forcing memories up (if there is such a thing) when your body and brain are not ready to let them go, will only increase your pain and discomfort. You won't get the natural trauma release needed without being readied. I tried many...

It took me 25 years for my grandmother's death to hit me. And boy did it hit me like a tsunami. The sadness is there. It is buried I believe. Your body will hold it until it knows it is safe to cry. At least this has been my experience. As you release more trauma energy over time, the range...

I love that the deer showed! Who knows more about fight or flight than deer. I think that experience was meaningful. No coincidence.