Brad Schipke treats painful emotions as separate parts of yourself, then coaches them like a helper would. Visualizing them as distinct personalities creates distance so you can offer love instead of fear. He teaches these techniques through his school community.
But if you never face a trauma, then it will never get healed. And one of the best ways that I learned how to do that was by seeing each one of those traumatized pieces of me as if it was its own unique person, right? So seeing this emotion as a part of my mind, and then talking to that part as if it's another person. And what that does is it gives you separation from that emotion. So it grounds you, and then also puts you in the position of a coach or a helper of that part. So you can actually show that part love, and you can guide it to heal and recover. And in that sense, you are able to independently help yourself. And it's much less scary because what you realize is that all of these scary emotions that feel are just hurt parts of yourself. It's less of a terrifying thing that you need to confront and more of a labor of love of wanting to help this terrified, distraught, traumatized part of you. If you can see that this part has just been terribly hurt, you actually want to go and help it. If you want to learn how to do that and the exact techniques to actually process your trauma, join my school community. It's in my bio. You can get a free trial.
