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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.
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2 practicesTheme · Listen to the body
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Notice 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.