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I have many things to say about this extraordinary trauma release practice... thread incoming
Person I know has been described as 'skittish' since forever. She did Trauma Release Exercises (basically you tire your inner tights with exercises like the one below and it starts to shake and the whole body) and now is just... not?? anymore?? Like is out of flight-or-fight!?!? This makes me think that this whole area (not even sure what to call it... "healing"!?) is just super high-dimensional and discontinuous, and exploratory search i.e. throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks is the way to go. Like how can you have a problem for SO LONG people think it's your personality but then you do a 10 min exercise and it's permanently gone lmao
2. Peter Levine's book In An Unspoken Voice is the best explanation I've read for why inducing automatic physical tremors can create enormous relief from trauma, without having to address any narrative content tldr: it's just how mammals work
It's not trauma release. it's tension release. Trauma is a story. Just because there is tension doesn't mean there is or was "trauma." That narrative is sales copy for therapists, and it needs to go bye-bye. #downwiththetraumanarrative David designed the TRE protocol to help communities of people (who had indeed experienced an acute trauma) let go of the natural tension that would have accumulated after such an event and who did not do therapy in the traditional western way. I'm not saying it doesn't work--and for more reasons than Levine says it does, but what I am saying is that to call it "trauma" releasing is ridiculous, especially in the WIERD contexts it is mostly used today. Again, #downwiththetraumanarrative @dberceli