Coaching practices for Question Trauma Beliefs

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
• Ever since what happened I move through life with these flat, absolute rules running underneath everything
• The raw panic has actually eased, but underneath it these convictions are still lodged in me
• The memory finally doesn’t sting the way it used to, but the belief it left behind is still running the show
• What happened left me with this flat verdict about myself

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Installation of the Positive Cognition
   Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
5. 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
6. Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
   NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
   Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story
7. Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately
   Imaginal exposure has the person revisit the traumatic memory in detail to allow the brain to process it as a past event.
   Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
8. Examine your worldview for death-anxiety imports
   Identify beliefs and group loyalties that may be driven by terror management rather than genuine conviction.
   Terror Management Theory, Made Practical
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. Understand what PTG is — and is not
    Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical

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