How Can You Decrease Your PTSD or Trauma Response? It is, in fact, Possible.

You Don’t Have to Be Stuck in Your PTSD or Trauma Response. There are ways to decrease and dial down the response in the moment friend.

There is hope.

The intensity of your responses to trauma can be dialed down.

How? The first step is self-awareness.

Being aware of what is occurring and what specific things trigger you. (A trigger is something associated with the trauma memory. A trigger is not something you choose, but something your amygdala has connected to the trauma. An object, a similar situation, a sound, a smell, etc.)

I know it’s likely not something you want to think about or focus on because avoidance of triggers is normal.

Avoiding a trigger is something our body does intuitively to protect us from future danger.

Identifying the triggers is actually the first step toward taking power back for yourself from the experiences you didn’t have control in.

I put a fight or flight guide to help gently guide you through identifying some of your trauma triggers.
Here’s the link: Fight or Flight Guidebook.

By identifying a trigger, you can begin to understand why you feel tense, stressed, and feel you are back in the trauma, re-living it, when a trigger occurs.

Through EMDR therapy with a trained therapist or psychologist and using positive coping strategies, you can begin to find healing and decrease the intensity of your trauma responses in the moment.
Right. When. They. Actually. Occur.

You begin to be empowered and take back control.

I’ve done it myself, for my own traumas.
Yes.
I have multiple, separate traumas.
I have complex trauma. Complex PTSD.
But—There is hope.

You don’t have to fight your battle alone, friend.

Seriously, grab my Fight or Flight Guide.
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