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Starting to think Somatic Experiencing is complete bollocks
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Iā€™m reading Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine and heā€™s talking about how we can heal trauma by entering the felt sense or whatever, Iā€™ve literally tried his exercises from a TikTok that Iā€™ve seen and I literally felt nothing when apparently I was supposed to cry and shit. I only shook a little but it barely did anything.

Iā€™m pretty sure the rise in body-based therapy is a direct reaction to the well-raised problems with CBT. Except this nervous system regulation stuff seems to only work with regular isolated traumatic events. If you have complex trauma and canā€™t remember when you ever had a regulated nervous system, it likely wonā€™t do anything but these people will claim youā€™re somehow doing the method wrong or have a ā€œvictim mentalityā€ if you donā€™t find success with their methods. Itā€™s complete bullshit

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It's bullshit. I joined a group and it was supposed to talk about trauma. Whenever I asked a real question about something, I'd have mod warn me about triggering others. An example was, "My narcissistic ex is bad mouthing me to our child and she's having a hard time. I'm at a loss of how to comfort her and feel like a failure."

I was constantly walking on eggshells. The group was about praising the author who wrote a journey about her experience with a narcissistic abuser. Asking a question or sharing an experience that doesn't match the author was a no-no. It was really about kissing the authors behind.

Maybe it isn't a true support group. It was full of shit and like being in a cult.

I left.

Honestly I'd proceed with caution and only talk to a licensed professional. Untrained people can cause more harm.

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