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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
I'm a frequent bodywork client and I have often had flashbacks while being massaged. Dealing with them in therapy has been helpful to making them tolerable and bodywork has been healing to me in return. Flashbacks are not so much a problem when you can learn to be okay with them, and then they reduce in frequency and intensity. I think you can get past this.
Have you read Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score? Many body-based therapies are more helpful than therapy for many people.
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I am going to have to get desensitized like exposure therapy. I guess the more I just deal with it the more my nervous system will calm down. Just sucks how anxious I get going into class knowing I will have to do it.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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