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Old 01-11-2017, 05:12 PM
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LifeRecovery
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Therapy helped me with my PTSD. I did not do EMDR but it was a somatic therapy in nature.

A couple of things I learned that helped me.

PTSD reactions are incompleted energies stored in our body. Because of the stress you are under when they happen you have a "picture," of that time but a time stamp does not get put onto the picture. That is why triggers can happen for PTSD with unrelated things. That is why they can pop up so randomly. For me a lot of my PTSD stuff was stored in my jaw, in my hips etc.

Therapy helped. I did a course in something called Trauma Releasing Exercises (T.R.E)that helped. Body work helped. Learning that my behavior was on the "normal" scale for PTSD was helpful.

It was so hard at the time, but truly for me working through this stuff was the best gift ever!
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