Focusing Tip #646 – “My stepmother was a rage-aholic”
Do you get taken over by intense feelings of rage that remind you of a raging parent or step-parent? Read on… Marianne…
Focusing Tip #627 – When your trauma gets triggered by current events
Are you suffering PTSD symptoms just from watching the news? Read on… Susanna writes: What’s going on this past week, with the…
Focusing Tip #615 – “I feel difficult emotions, but not a felt sense…”
What can you do when an old childhood-trauma-based issue has been triggered? Read on… Paul writes: Focusing is challenging for me. It…
Focusing Tip #611 – What is the effect of childhood emotional wounds on your life today?
Janet writes: Can our Self-in-Presence be wounded? Is that why we have developed parts that feel they need to protect/defend/hide from us?…
Focusing Tip #601 – I find it frightening to try to sense the dissociating part in my body.
A Reader writes: I just realized that I dissociate. I can’t control it when it happens. It, whatever in me takes over…
Focusing Tip #593 – “I cannot understand why there’s still a traumatized vulnerable child within me…”
If you were traumatized by someone, why doesn’t the hurt and anger heal when that person starts treating you better? A Reader…
Focusing Tip #577 -When early childhood trauma gets triggered
If you’re triggered by what people say, and you know it’s from your own past, what do you do? Sally writes: I’m…
Focusing Tip #538 – Do you get into a dead end with trying to bring change in old repetitive traumas?
“Around that original trauma there seems to have developed a kaleidoscope of reactive feelings…” A few months ago Leslie wrote: I seem…
Focusing Tip #431 – Going Slowly with Traumatized Parts
“My dad left our family suddenly and unexpectedly…” Raewyn writes: Thank you Ann for your timely reminder of slowness and gentleness for…
Focusing Tip #423 – Focusing for Healing Trauma
“I feel like I am encountering old trauma. Is Focusing able to help heal that?” A Reader writes: In my Focusing process…
