Trauma

My therapist lent me a book during our last session called Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine. It teaches you about trauma and how your body reacts, and then it gives you a 12 phase program to moving past your trauma. The best part for me is that it helps you deal with your trauma without actually getting into the details, and processing the details always causes issues for me. Now I'm only on phase 2, and the first few phases are about body awareness, taking back ownership of your body, grounding and centering yourself, and really just familiarizing yourself with your body and it's reactions. I never realized how out of touch I am with my body, I always thought I understood it, but now that I've established my boundaries, and rekindled my ownership, I feel more aware of myself. Anxiety is like a body response to my trauma, and learning to calm my body will hopefully help me to find peace with my trauma.