TRE

Trauma/Tension Release Exercises, devised by David Becelli, offer a profound and life changing practice to regulate your nervous system using the natural and innate mechanism the body already has. The same brain stem mechanism that arouses fight/flight/freeze/fawn also has the ability to turn it off, to return to a baseline of connected, calm and responsive.

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Benefits of TRE

A Healthy Coping Mechanism

When our nervous system is activated we all have different learned behaviours to calm ourselves; food, alcohol, smoking, drugs, sex, shopping.

You will learn to notice when you are activated (anxiety, unease, irritation or anger) and can turn to TRE rather than to harmful patterns that increase feelings of helplessness and poor self worth.

Body-Led Healing

TRE uses the body’s natural reflexes to release tension and restore well-being without requiring verbal processing of past trauma.

For many, talking about their past is a barrier to accessing the help they need. TRE reintroduces you to the power of the body, no story needed.

Self-Help and Versatility

Once learned, TRE becomes a lifelong tool for stress relief and emotional regulation. It complements other treatments and can be taught in various settings, including large groups.

You are in control of your own healing this is a very empowering thing to experience that you have ways of coping that aren't in the hands of someone else.

Staying Present in the moment

There is a lot of talk about staying present in our culture. Mindfulness and meditation practices to help us to stay with and accept the present moment. The thing that you don't often hear referred to is that if you have trauma in your body you do not experience the present moment as safe so you will find that you bounce back into thought easily and frequently. This is not your fault it is a natural mechanism that you have evolved to find safety. When your nervous system is activated, the sensations in the body feel very unsafe and uncomfortable so you disconnect from those sensations and into your mind and thoughts and imaginings. This is a mechanism that kept you safe as a child when you could not do anything else but now as an adult is it limiting and cuts you off from the fullness of life and your own potential. Trauma is not about what happened in the past it is very much present and affecting this moment, the wounding is in the present.

Reduced worry and anxiety

Reduced reactivity and irritation