Trauma timeline

[Rachie]

Hi
I read about someone making a trauma timeline in a book and thought it might help me to do my own one.
Do the events on it have to be traumatic or just significant? Like I get that I'm not going to write down I read a new book or went to the shop but there are some events that I would say are significant that I haven't had flashbacks of so might not be traumatic but should I put them on the timeline?

 

[RecoveryGuy]

I would say if you remember it put it into the timeline.

 

[Chris-duck]

When I made a timeline of shit I included all significant stuff (like weebro being born or moving countries) cos it wasn't trauma but did have a significant impact on my life.

 

[Ronin]

Depends how you remember.

I do a waay more complex & triggering me emotionally trauma timeline if I log music I heard then or listened to, than if I try for where it was, for instance.

So note what & how is significant *to you*.

 

[Tinyflame]

I can often better remember moments in time, what was going on and how I felt, based on reminders with songs too @Ronin. And more of the negative than the positive (I remember the positive, but more often feel the negative).

 

[RecoveryGuy]

I never thought about doing it with the music parallel. That might be useful the next time I do one. Music has a big effect on me. There are some song that I will cry every time I listen to them. One is "That's my Job" by Conway Twitty. It is a reminder of what I deserved, that even though I didn't have that, I did deserve that. I imagine those things being said to my 'inner child" and it gets me choked up and teary eyed every time.