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  • I’m so cut off from my own body that I never notice I’m wound tight until I suddenly boil over or crash
  • I keep trying to think and talk my way out of being upset, but once I’m flooded my mind just won’t work
  • Something will trip a memory and suddenly my body reacts like the old thing is happening all over again, right now
  • My body keeps sending me messages
  • When I’m wound up or stuck I just sit there marinating in the feeling, when every cell of me is itching to move

Practices that may help

  1. The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
    Bessel van der Kolk’s core claim is that overwhelming experience is registered in the body and nervous system — not just as a memory but as ongoing physiological dysregulation — so calming the body ("bottom-up") can be as important as talking ("top-down"). The broad insight that trauma shows up physiologically is well supported; some of the book’s specific claims and favored therapies are more debated than the book’s certainty suggests. These are self-regulation skills, not a substitute for trauma treatment.
  2. Practice noticing what your body is doing
    Build the skill of sensing internal signals — tension, heart rate, breath — without being hijacked by them.
    The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
  3. Regulate the body before you process the story
    When you are activated, settle the body first — insight cannot land on a flooded nervous system.
    The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
  4. 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
  5. Read bodily signals as information
    Treat tension, energy dips, and gut feelings as data about needs and emotions, not just noise.
    Interoception, Explained
  6. Move and use rhythm to shift state
    Walking, swaying, drumming, dancing — rhythmic, whole-body movement to discharge and reset arousal.
    The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
  7. Recover and recharge after intense emotion
    After an emotional peak, deliberately allow recovery time — intense arousal depletes resources.
    The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
  8. Track body sensation (the felt sense)
    Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
    Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained
  9. Build rhythmic oscillation between stress and recovery
    High performance is not sustained effort — it is deliberate alternation between full engagement and full recovery.
    The Energy Audit
  10. Name which burners are actually on
    Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
    Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs

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