Recovering from trauma and attachment wounding is a unique and individual journey for everyone. The first step in trauma and attachment wounding recovery is ensuring that you can confidently manage distress and big emotions when they arise. How we do this in EMDR is by spending time building internal resources that can help you manage emotional overwhelm both in and out of the therapy room. This is a crucial stage in any trauma and attachment wounding work as both you and your therapist need to feel confident that you have the skills to self-sooth when you need, tolerate distress when required or contain big emotions when necessary. These skills are required to ensure that you are able to safely move to the next step of trauma reprocessing.
What does it mean to build your resources?
Building your internal resources means cultivating and nurturing the innate strengths, qualities, and experiences within yourself that contribute to a felt sense of safety, connection, belonging, and well-being. It involves developing a deep sense of self-awareness, and a knowledge of how your nervous system works.
So what does it look like to build your resources?
This involves engaging in experiential exercises that are designed to activate your nervous system and engage all your senses to help you connect you with your innate strengths and positive experiences.
What this will look like in the group
In our three-part workshop Finding Stability and Calm we draw from EMDR therapy to focus on stabilisation and resourcing. This is a fantastic place to start if you have been wondering if EMDR is the right therapy for you, or you have been managing anxiety, depression, self-esteem and self-worth issues for a long time and are looking for strategies that you can implement straight away to help you manage emotional overwhelm.
The tools and exercises that we will cover in the group include imagery, self-reflection, experiential exercises that utilise all your senses, and exercises that are designed to help you connect with your nervous system in a soothing and calming way.
Join us
Our three-part workshop series Finding Stability and Calm is designed to help you build your internal resources. Whether you are looking for effective strategies to manage emotional overwhelm, stress, anxiety and or depression or are curious about deeper trauma and attachment wounding work, you will leave this workshop with tangible and effective skills and strategies you will be able to implement into your life immediately. Click here to read more.
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