Coaching practices for Sensory Emotional Cognitive Meaning Trauma
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve told the story plenty of times
- What happened left me with this flat verdict about myself
- I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
- My head says I’ve dealt with it, but my body didn’t get the message
- I went numb to my own body a long time ago because feeling it was too much, and now I’m so cut off from it that I can barely tell what I’m physically feeling
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Interoceptive noticing in movement
Attend to what a movement actually feels like from the inside, rather than how it looks from the outside.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Track body sensation (the felt sense)
Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Ground in the present when the past intrudes
Use the senses and the room to signal "that was then, this is now" when memory floods the body.
The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained - 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 - 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 - 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
Related concerns
- How Trauma Is Stored In The Body
Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
Body Scan and Session Closure
- Emotional Processing 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.
- Identify Stuck Points Ptsd
Name the specific beliefs about safety, trust, control, esteem, or intimacy that the trauma has frozen.
Identify your stuck points
- Temporal Context Ptsd
Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
Narrate the trauma in chronological order within its life context
- Toxic Positivity Trauma
Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
Understand what PTG is — and is not
- Trauma Memory Channels
NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
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