Hi all,
Has anyone used these techniques to help process trauma? In therapy and between sessions.
Particularly a technique where one conceptualises the feelings into something sensory. To give an analogy - if you had anxiety public speaking you take those feelings or thoughts and may see them as sticky and red and smelling like unwashed socks . You imagine how that would look or smell or feel. You then think of an antidote. Like pouring apple cider vinegar onto it. Or daffodil juice. Or any thing that would nuetralise it in your mind.
If doing it with trauma it means you don't have to look directly at the experience but can start processing some of its edges.
I have started using it is therapy and am supposed to try to soften the edges of intrusive stuff. Hopefully making it easier to talk about. Am not presently managing to speak about it much. I also have a lot of other stuff going on in my life, so need to not fall totally off the deck of the boat.
I wondered if anyone had read the book or used the technique. And if so, if you have any thoughts to share.
Please feel free to move this if it isn't in the best forum. Thank you.
Has anyone used these techniques to help process trauma? In therapy and between sessions.
Particularly a technique where one conceptualises the feelings into something sensory. To give an analogy - if you had anxiety public speaking you take those feelings or thoughts and may see them as sticky and red and smelling like unwashed socks . You imagine how that would look or smell or feel. You then think of an antidote. Like pouring apple cider vinegar onto it. Or daffodil juice. Or any thing that would nuetralise it in your mind.
If doing it with trauma it means you don't have to look directly at the experience but can start processing some of its edges.
I have started using it is therapy and am supposed to try to soften the edges of intrusive stuff. Hopefully making it easier to talk about. Am not presently managing to speak about it much. I also have a lot of other stuff going on in my life, so need to not fall totally off the deck of the boat.
I wondered if anyone had read the book or used the technique. And if so, if you have any thoughts to share.
Please feel free to move this if it isn't in the best forum. Thank you.