TRE® : Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises · TRE is moving at the speed of your nervous system...

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An Innovative Approach to Mitigating the Effects of Stress in Your Body and in Your Life

TRE® : Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises

with Jessica Schaffer, TRE® Certification Trainer, Certified TRE® Provider

Stress is:

Trauma is:

Any experience that requires changes in our normal coping mechanism

Any experience that overwhelms our normal coping mechanism

How helpless are you in the face of a stressor?


Stress Trauma


•Having expanded awareness and spaciousness of perception

Components of Therapeutic Presence:

•Being grounded, connected with integrated self

•Being open and receptive and immersed in the moment

•Having the intention to be fully engaged with the client and in service to client’s healing

Geller, S., & Porges, S. (2014). Therapeutic Presence: Neurophysiological Mechanisms Mediating Feeling Safe in Therapeutic Relationships. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 24(3), 178-192. Dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037511

Sympathetic:

The “Gas” Pedal

Excites/Mobilizes

Fight/Flight

Parasympathetic:

The “Brake”

Quiets/Dampens

Conserves Energy

Polyvagal Theory 3 distinct neural circuits in the ANS:

Ventral Vagal Social Engagement

System

Dorsal Vagal Freeze

Collapse



DANGER Sympathetic

Defense Strategies for Mobilization

Fight/Flight

LIFE THREAT

Dorsal Vagal Freeze

Collapse Shut Down

Our nervous systems evaluate safety through environmental cues and internal cues (neuroception):

SAFETY Ventral Vagal

Integrated Social Engagement

System

Environment

ANS

External Cues Internal Cues

We respond to cues in a sequential manner, using our most sophisticated circuitry first:

Graph courtesy of Cheryl Sanders

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Dr. David Berceli,Creator of TRE®


Letting go is not for the purpose of

forgetting; it is about releasing the energy of the past to give us back our

lives in the present which is necessary to deliver us into a new future.

—Dr. David Berceli

When the body responds to stress:

• The greater the stress/threat, the greater the constriction.


• Patterns of constriction accumulate in the body.

• If the stress is severe or ongoing, freeze will result.

How TRE® Promotes Nervous System Regulation :


•Discharges patterns trapped in the myofascial tissue that stem from inhibited flight/fight or freeze response

•Communicates to the brain that the body is no longer in the original danger for which the responses were initiated

•Down-regulates the nervous system and brings us back to a state of physiologic homeostasis / SES

Three Important Aspects of Practicing TRE® :


•Maintain safety and comfort within your window of tolerance at all times

• Regulation comes first; release comes second!

•Listen to your body signals and respond accordingly. TRE is moving at the speed of your nervous system and body tissue, not at the speed of your ego or personality

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