notes on freedom
A weekly email series containing easily digestible morsels of info on relational trauma and how to find freedom from it.
THIS WEEK IT’S A NOTE ON…feeling good
Those of us with relational trauma often struggle to feel good, literally. We struggle to recognise, name and ‘be with’ positive emotions.
In part this happens because we’ve spent our lives hyper vigilantly scanning for problems and threat. Over time we’ve become programmed to notice a negative feeling or a potential ‘bad thing’ in a split second. But because we over attenuate to negative, we have a reduced capacity to notice the good.
Finding freedom from trauma requires us to expand our capacity to recognise, name and ‘be with’ positive emotions. This is something that’s rarely talked about but it so very key to rebalancing our body and moving into regulation.
Perhaps for today our intention can be to notice the things that feel good to our body, mind and spirit and allow them, for just a little longer.
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Sarah Woodhouse is a trauma expert, research psychologist and writer who delivers people the knowledge and tools to recognise and overcome self-defeating cycles, to achieve personal freedom and success. Please follow her on Instagram, Facebook or X for all the latest updates.
