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Old Jul 01, 2014, 03:13 PM
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You are numb. So much stress takes us up to opiate release. Try to come down. Be calm and soothing. You went to numb because you are super stressed and super adrenalised. Bring yourself down to calm. Stop thinking about trauma. Stop thinking about stress. Take a shower, and do whatever feels good, stretch or massage your feet or brush your hair. Stay calm and gentle and wear your favorite clothes, make your bed with clean sheets. You are coaxing yourself back into your body.

If you find a psoas stretch on YouTube that you can do easily, do it. Those muscles contact when we are alarmed and gently, easily and softly opening and relaxing them can bring us around.

David Bercelis TRE will help, and you can learn It from his book.

Sometimes we respond to numb by drinking coffee, blasting music, trying to wake up and snap out. It's the wrong thing to do (unless there's an emergency). The right think is to come down. If you cry and shake when you do its ok. Baby yourself a little, lime you are coaxing a frightened animal to freedom.
Thanks for this!
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