Why is it that we continue to be triggered? And what can we do about that in the fifth of the five stages of therapeutic recovery?
In my personal experience of recovery over the last 17 years -- as well as based on what I have seen, heard, felt and sensed in so many of the survivors I have known -- the the neural "wiring" of the "not okay inner child" that was conditioned, instructed, imprinted, socialized, habituated, and normalized into a default mode network in the human brain will always be there to at least some extent. DMN's are just too complex and full of too many alternate circuits to disappear completely.
That's the "bad" news. BUT... the good news is that one can acquire the skills to a) spot the "not okay inner child" when he or she pops up in response to triggering, and b) bleed off the energy there before it moves into anything like Learned Helplessness, Dread & the Victim Identity or "protective" (but dysfunctional) Reciprocal Reactivity. See...
Dis-I-dentifying with Learned Helplessness & the Victim I-dentity (see also not-moses's answers to a replier's questions there)
Choiceless Awareness for Emotion Processing, and specifically therein the 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
A Recovery Program for Someone with Untreated Childhood Trauma
Resources & References
See the authors listed in the very first paragraph of this earlier post. Find their work in A CPTSD Library.
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