Tips & Tools for Releasing Stored Trauma in Your Body
🌻Somatic Experiencing: Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing can release trauma locked in the body. This method is the result of a combination of stress physiology, psychology, neuroscience, medical biophysics and indigenous healing practices. (Videos on youtube)
🌻Mindfulness and Movements: going for a walk, bike ride, Boxing, Martial arts, yoga (or trauma-informed yoga), or dancing. People who get into martial arts or boxing are often those who were traumatized in the past. They’re carrying a lot of anger and fighting is a great release for them. Exercise helps your body burn off adrenaline, release endorphins, calm your nervous system, and relieve stress.
Release Trapped Emotions:
🍀How to release anger from the body - somatic healing tool
🍀Somatic Exercises for ANGER: Release Anger in Under 5 Minutes
🍀Youtube Playlist: Trauma Healing, Somatic Therapy, Self Havening, Nervous system regulation
🌻 Havening Technique is a somatosensory self-comforting therapy to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and remove its negative effects from our psyche and body. It has a calming effect on the Amygdala and the Limbic system. 🌼Exercise: Havening Technique for Rapid Stress & Anxiety Relief 🌼Exercise: Self-Havening with nature ambience to let go of painful feelings 🌼Video: Using Havening Techniques to rapidly erase a traumatic memory (Certified Practitioner guides them through a healing session)
🌻Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy technique often used to treat anxiety and PTSD. It incorporates rhythmic eye movements while recalling traumatic experiences. This combo changes how the memory is stored in the brain and allow you to process the trauma fully.
🌻Sound & Vibrational Healing: Sound healing has become all the rage in the health and wellness world. It involves using the power of vibration – from tuning forks, singing bowls, or gongs – to relax the mind and body.
🌻Breathwork is an intentional method of breathing that helps your body relax by bypassing your conscious mind. Trauma can overstimulate the body’s sympathetic nervous system (aka your body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ response). Breathwork settles it down.
Informative videos & Experts on Attachment style healing:
🌼Dr Kim Sage, licensed psychologist
🌼Dr. Nicole LePera (theholisticpsychologist)
🌼Briana MacWilliam
🌼Candace van Dell
🌼Heidi Priebe
Other informative Videos on Trauma:
🌻Small traumas in a “normal” family and attachment: Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
🌻Uncovering Triggers and Pattern for Healing: Dr Gabor Maté
🌻Understanding trapped emotions in the body and footage of how wild animals release trauma
Article: How Trauma Is Stored in the Body (+ How to Release It)
Article: 20 self-care practices for complex trauma survivors