Processing trauma
Hi everyone. I’m pretty new here but almost 4 months post D-Day. I was speaking to my IC recently about how I’m coping with the difficult feelings - I told her the various strategies I use throughout the day (meditation, journalling, reading, walking etc) and then mentioned that I tend to have a lot of emotional flooding right before bedtime.
She suggested that a lot of what I’m doing might be distracting myself from the trauma and big emotions, rather than processing them. We’re obviously going to explore this together as part of our sessions, but I wondered if anyone had any suggestions or could share their experience of processing the trauma in a constructive way, that doesn’t just distract from the pain (but also doesn’t result in a huge, uncontrollable emotional outburst).
Thanks so much 😊
8 comments posted: Friday, October 28th, 2022
