Coaching practices for Revisiting Trauma Memory

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

• The memory itself still feels like it’s happening right now, not something that’s over
• The memory finally doesn’t sting the way it used to, but the belief it left behind is still running the show
• When I bring the memory up it’s still as vivid and loud as the day it happened, like no time has passed at all
• Last time a memory finally felt settled, but the week since stirred things up
• I’ve told the story plenty of times

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Installation of the Positive Cognition
   Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
3. 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
4. Reevaluation at the Start of Each Session
   Begin every new EMDR session by checking whether last session’s gains held — and what emerged in between.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
5. 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
6. Imagery rescripting for schema memories
   Revisit a difficult childhood memory in imagination and rewrite it so the child’s needs are met.
   Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs
7. Body Scan and Session Closure
   Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
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. The fly-on-the-wall replay
   Replay a difficult event as if watching it from outside the room rather than from behind your own eyes.
   Self-Distancing Journaling
10. Narrate the trauma in chronological order within its life context
    Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
    Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story

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