Perhaps you’ve felt it? Debilitating fear, anxiety, panic that comes out of nowhere and knocks you sideways. The people around you can’t understand it and you can’t explain it or rationalize it. Once you’re in the middle of it you can’t talk yourself out of it. You live in fear of the feeling of fear because you’re not exactly sure where it’s coming from.

That’s where Sarah was before she discovered trauma release exercise and the power of the tremor mechanism. I sat down with her to find out more about how TRE changed her life. This is Sarah’s story.

“There is no cure for PTSD”. I wonder when it comes to something as complex as post traumatic stress if it’s a “cure” that we really need. Perhaps what we really need is an inoculation. Something that could boost our own natural defenses against the toxic levels of stress in our society today.

The word trauma...it holds a lot of stigma. When you hear it you might think major injury, assault, catastrophic event, abuse, suffering but underlying all of these is a sense of victim-hood. I used to think (and maybe you did too)that only soldiers experienced trauma. It never occurred to me that as a human being I’m exposed to trauma all the time.

Like a good watchdog, your autonomic nervous system alerts you to danger and can save your life. But just like the watchdog that cries wolf, barking at everything and nothing, soon people stop paying attention. 

There are consequences to bottling up all of that emotional, mental and physical energy. If you ignore it long enough, at some point it will start to scream. Eventually you find a breaking point and all that suppressed stress starts to overwhelm your system.

Stress is trauma and trauma is stress.  It’s a normal part of life. The truth is, whatever the story, trauma of any flavor can become clear and present danger that magnifies the intensity of day to day stress if you don't learn to shake it off.