How Stress Becomes Identity

In Daily Good 

During the Trauma Informed Coaching course, they talked about the sequence of Emotions, States, and Traits.

We all have emotions that come and go throughout the day, like passing flavours of energy. However, when we have emotions that are more than we can process or that we’re resisting, they don’t get digested. Energetic residues remain.

We store these in the physical and emotional bodies.

When enough residue builds up, that creates a state in the physiology. The body can’t come back into balance and remains dysregulated. This is trauma. For example, when enough unresolved fear builds up, we end up with ongoing anxiety. Or enough sadness, we get general sadness or even depression. FOR MORE

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