Brad Schipke explains how the body reacts to triggers based on past trauma, not present reality. Your nervous system uses memory and emotion to gauge safety, not logic. Processing old memories can break the pattern so you stop reacting to the past.
If there's a stimulus in your environment that reminds you of an old trauma, your body and your system reacts instantly, even if your logical mind knows you're okay, because your body measures safety by memory and emotion, not by logic. So your trauma conditions you to act in that way. But when you process those old memories, the pattern breaks. You stop reacting to the past and start responding to the present moment.
