r/longtermTRE

I have the feeling that since I started TRE 5 Months ago, its making my skin issues (seborrheic dermatitis) worse. Is this just a coincidence, or has anyone else experienced this?

I had my 3rd session today (at home on my own). The tremors actually travelled up my torso for the first time. I started crying. I had some vague childhood memories replaying in my head, like the night we ran away from my father, but I didn't feel like I was crying about them. It felt like a more generic crying about life. The word "fear" was stuck in my head. I also kept thinking "sorry" at the end. I wonder if that's my inner child blaming herself for everything. Has anyone had experiences like this where you're thinking of specific words?

Lately I've been getting these diaphragm spasms that cause air to move quickly through me. At first it was at the diaphragm and the nose, but then it would move to other parts of the body like the stomach, chest, different parts of the throat, the mouth, etc.

I don't feel panicked or afraid while it's happening, and actually feel much calmer after (if a little light-headed). This pattern seems to first be brought on by crying, when I am feeling emotion.

Has anyone else had these diaphragm movements and rapid breathing? It feels like it's helping the blocked feeling and pain around my solar plexus and the pit of my throat. Like the whole area is looser afterwards. Less constricted, flow of breath is easier.

I’m about a month and a half in and I haven’t felt any real releases. I’ve felt some tension release temporarily once I lay down and rest after a session, but I haven’t ever felt a release during a session. My body will often times try to stretch an area with a really tense muscle as well as shake while stretching or even tensing up my body so that that area trembles while also being stretched, but there’s never any release.

Is my tension just releasing gradually and there’s nothing to worry about? Is it possible for there to be no progress if you never release anything during a session? Or maybe if all the tension comes back? I’m not stressed out much in this period of my life and I take a good rest after sessions so I’m hoping my integration is good enough for the tension to not come back.

Thanks!

This is a hypothetical that if every person in the world did TRE and healed all of the ancestral and this lifetime trauma causing everyone to be blissful and joyful

hence no one doing any bad things and everyone helping each other out?

I have social anxiety and I feel very insecure when expressing myself. My mind goes blank and I can't recall words when I talk to strangers or people I don't feel comfortable with.

Also, I live in a country different from my home country, and I use four languages almost every day. This makes things harder since I struggle to recall words in a language I'm currently speaking, and a word from another language often comes to mind instead.

I started doing mushrooms every couple of months for depression, and they completely erase it, along with my generalized anxiety. However, I still face this difficulty speaking fluently to people, and I attribute it to trauma (which is where my social anxiety comes from or so I think).

Has anybody found it easier to communicate and express themselves after doing TRE for some time?

As the title says, is there anything speaking against starting TRE and Transcendental Meditation (TM) practices at once? Are they working in support or against each other? Can I do them on the same day? Anything to keep in mind?

I really wish to restart my meditation practice. I did years of anapana meditation before having kids and shifting my focus to trauma resolution.

I’ve been doing TRE for 6 months now and I’m wondering whether meditation interferes with TRE integration, or the opposite: it is actually a great tool for integration?

I’ve always slept a lot, usually around 9+ hours. Since I started TRE, it became less at first, but now I sometimes even sleep 11 hours. Is that a sign of integration, or is it already too much?

I want to reduce the risk of side effects associated with practicing TRE so I'm thinking of doing TRE for 30 seconds, once or twice a week, without increasing the duration of the frequency

There are two things that concern me a bit about this pace:

-first I'm scared that "microdosing" TRE won't work in practice. I've heard a lot of people say that their body couldn't control the tremors at some point and that the tremors would just start on their own

-second I'm worried doing TRE for just 30 second isn't efficient enough to adress trauma

so, for those who tried TRE for a very short duration (30 seconds - 1 minute typically), can you share how was your experience?

(sorry for the poor writing, English isn't my first language)

basically the title

Please humour me as I lay out my problems so that you can understand where I am and tell em if you relate or if you can give me advice.

I have been essentially frozen since I was a child. Closed up as a person, personality never really developed due to intergenerational trauma which was imprinted on me in the form of extreme coldness, extreme neglect and a really abusive and chaotic home life for my entire life. Then I left home and used booze and weed as a crutch.

I have never finished anything in my life, but I have a lot of things I want to accomplished, and now that the thawing process has begun I see a alight at the end of the tunnel.

Through psychedelics, mindfulness meditation and now TRE I think I am on ghe road to development but I still have the unfortunate trait of laziness and fear of starting.

Has anyone else been in this position? Is it just a matter of tiny steps consistently?

Appreciate you reading this. Thanks.

my ideal session is one where I can take plenty of time afterwards to also do mindfulness and rest to properly integrate for the rest of the day or majority of the day. but some days i just don't have the time - either because of work or social plans or also somedays I just have no energy to "sit with and stay with" difficult emotions and things that come up during the session, so i resort to dissociation to different degrees. But I still practice regularly. I just worry that if I don't do it properly it could cause more harm than good.

I recently posted about my 30 minutes sessions a day and was told that is too much for a beginner, but what I meant is probably about 15 to 20 minutes to start tremoring effectively for 5 to 10 minutes.

I started to space then based on the recommendations but now my body is not doing it and after 30 minutes of tiring my body, nothing happens...

During TRE, do you really have to keep your concentration in your body the whole time, or is it also okay to watch TV or listen to a podcast while doing it?

Nowadays, after some sessions I get emotional releases in the form of crying. I get grumpy and irritated during the day and if I sit with the feeling, I start sobbing for 5-10 minutes.

I was wondering if this is integration and when the heavy feelings clear, does this mean that the integration is complete? I feel somewhat relieved and at peace after each crying session.

I’ve been doing TRE for about 5 months now. In the beginning I did notice immediate positive effects such as less anxiety, more patience, less anger etc. Now I’m five months in and notice that I have more irritation and intolerance towards people and situations. I find myself being quick to anger, depressed, etc nowadays. Quick to assume the worse and jump to conclusions etc. This is how I’ve been for years before TRE but it reduced significantly when I started, now it seems like I’m reverting back to how I was. My sleep and anxiety levels are still fine, but it seems like I’m more emotionally reactive. I tremor for the same amount of time that’s I’ve been doing since I’ve started TRE. Which is about 10-15 mins. And do it every other day or 2-3 days so I don’t see how I can be over doing it. Any advice?

Hey :) chronic dorsal vagal freeze here. I changed my lifestyle completely last year and stopped engaging with lots of behaviours that dysregulated me and although I was initially exhausted, I rebuilt to being able to work, socialise, exercise etc in March.

Got struck with what felt like a fairly mild virus, went back to work too early and since then I’ve been dealing with 10 weeks of post viral fatigue. Exacerbated by a wedding I had to go to and recently getting COVID and flu shots (afraid of getting another virus).

At the same time I learnt about somatic work and realised I needed to be engaging with it to thaw the freeze. I started seeing a somatic experiencing practitioner, doing TRE and seeing a craniosacral therapist. Actually the CST is the only thing I do that improves my energy for sure.

The freeze is definitely thawing… like I’m becoming more regulated, digestion and libido starting to improve, getting swings into sympathetic regulation that is messing with my sleep atm. So things are improving but energy is still IN THE BIN. Like I can manage a morning walk that’s it kinda. Tried to work last week and one shift set me back a fair way.

I’m at the point where the cost of thawing the nervous system is costing too much from an energy perspective to be sustainable. I know the energy gains will come later, but I need a baseline level of functional energy now to survive. I’m only doing TRE weekly, 1x3-5 minute session and only when my body craves and asks for it. The session itself never feels like too much. Like it feels good, relaxing, I initiate tremors without doing any of the exercises before hand. Occasionally I feel mildly foggy afterwards but it resolves quite quickly. I’m seeing me SE therapist once every 2-3 weeks currently and trying to modulate that too so it’s not too demanding. I’m wondering if I should just drop TRE completely for now until my energy improves to a tolerable baseline, or should I keep doing it as my body craves it?

Since I started TRE, I’ve noticed a tightening or twitching sensation in my stomach area whenever I think about something shame-related from my past. Would that also count as a tremor releasing something, or is it more a sign of suppressed emotions?