Healing Through Context
Sharing traumatic memories can evoke intense physiological responses, but healing is a gradual process that requires multiple safe environments. Engaging in therapy across various contexts helps individuals generalize their sense of safety, allowing them to reframe their experiences and find meaning beyond their pain. This journey emphasizes the importance of community and diverse support systems in overcoming trauma.In this clip
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In the episode Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time - Dr Russell Kennedy | Modern Wisdom Podcast 563 and the clip Memory and Trauma, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through a trigger, they use breathwork to calm the body immediately after, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?