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After harm
This area is for understanding what is happening in you after something harmful, and for settling. It is not a treatment programme.
Nothing here asks you to go back into a traumatic memory. Processing a trauma is work to do with a therapist who can hold it with you, not alone with a website. If you start to feel far away, unreal, or flooded while reading, stop and come back another time.
What works for this
Grounding, and staying inside your window
This area does one thing and does not do the others. It helps you get steady and get to somebody who can help. Nothing here asks you to go back over what happened, because processing is work for a trained person in a room with you.
One move, today
Five things you can see, four you can feel, three you can hear, two you can smell, one slow breath all the way out. Said out loud if you can.
What matches
2 practicesNotice where the fear sits in your body, the chest, the throat, the gut, and breathe gently toward it.
The body remembers what words forget. Meeting the sensation with breath, not judgement, begins to loosen it.
Move the body gently, a walk, a stretch, to discharge what fear leaves stored in it.
Fear is physical energy. Letting the body move helps it complete and settle what it could not before.