Brad Schipke treated his PTSD recovery like experiments, testing hypotheses about his own trauma instead of waiting for a therapist to fix him. He argues people are closest to their own experiences and can devise personalized interventions, refining them through iteration until they work.
Having an experimenter's mindset is what personally healed me and all of my trauma. I never would have healed if I was dependent on somebody else for all of my problem solving. The thing about trauma and recovery is that we go through so many things in our life that it's almost impossible for somebody else to untangle those for us. We are the ones closest to the problem, meaning we are the ones who are the best equipped to actually solve these problems. So have this mindset that you are experimenting, you're creating these hypotheses and these potential solutions to your problems, and then you test them out and you see how they do. If they work, great. If they don't work, you iterate on that problem until you solve it. Whether it's a belief, whether it's emotion, whether it's releasing emotion, whether it's doing specific parts work or shadow work, whatever it is, run these experiments with yourself. Ask yourself, what is a potential solution to this problem I'm facing right now? And you will come up with more creative solutions that other people and experts and therapists would never be able to give you because you know yourself best. You know the problems best. You're the only one who went through what you went through. Nobody else has gone through it. So trust yourself, trust your ability to come up with solutions, and you will find solutions that will blow your mind. So believe in what you can do and you will fully recover.
