Brad Schipke breaks trauma processing into two parts: releasing emotion and changing belief. Each time you bring up the memory, you let out some pressure and update what you believe about it. Repeat this cycle and the trauma gradually loses its grip.
2 core variables that are present in every trauma processing tool, a release of emotion and a change of belief, because the 2 core elements of a trauma here are emotions and beliefs. So as you do each one of these processing sessions, you bring the trauma out into your conscious mind, you release some of the pressure because you're not going to release all of it at once, and then you bring it back down, live your life. And then in the next processing session, again, you bring the trauma back up, you release some more of that pressure, you bring it back down, live your life. And then with each processing session, each time you bring it up into your conscious mind and release the emotions and change the beliefs, the trauma just gets smaller and smaller and smaller until it disappears. years.
