Coaching practices for Identify Stuck Points Ptsd

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  • Ever since what happened I move through life with these flat, absolute rules running underneath everything
  • I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
  • I know on some level that “it was my fault” isn’t really true, and people have told me as much, but every time I try to just argue myself out of it the belief digs in harder
  • The raw panic has actually eased, but underneath it these convictions are still lodged in me
  • I know I need to face the memory eventually, but the moment I get near it I get pulled all the way under

Practices that may help

  1. Identify your stuck points
    Name the specific beliefs about safety, trust, control, esteem, or intimacy that the trauma has frozen.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  2. Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
    CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  3. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
  4. Use Socratic questions to examine stuck points
    Challenge stuck points with specific questions that examine the evidence rather than argue against the belief.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  5. Process cognitions after an exposure session
    After each imaginal exposure, discuss what came up — the stuck meanings and beliefs — not just the distress level.
    Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
  6. Safe Place Installation
    Anchor a vivid, calming mental image you can return to when distress spikes during processing.
    EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  7. Write an impact statement — why the trauma happened and how it affected you
    A written account of the meaning you made of the trauma is CPT’s starting point for finding stuck points.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  8. Identifying and Targeting the Trauma Memory
    Pinpoint the specific memory, its worst moment (the "touchstone"), and the negative belief it installed.
    EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  9. Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
    Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
    Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
  10. Bilateral Stimulation During Active Processing
    Hold the distressing memory in mind while tracking rhythmic left-right stimulation — and notice what shifts.
    EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

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