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Reconnecting With Your Pain Is Essential 🙌

Name: Reconnecting With Your Pain Is Essential 🙌
Uploaded: 2024-11-22T22:26:46+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation in which Hannah Hammond explains the importance of 'reconnecting to the pain' as part of…

22 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation in which Hannah Hammond explains the importance of 'reconnecting to the pain' as part of trauma work. She describes the 'trauma egg' exercise (listing painful life experiences), notes that people often read such lists disconnectedly, and explains that disconnection is a protective response that leads to behaviors like people-pleasing or overachievement.

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What are some ways that you are able to pull yourself into the presence? Or for somebody that's like, okay, I want to start, you know, doing the work. What have you found? Is like the. The best place to start.
So from where I'm going in the process is reconnecting to the pain. They do this thing called, like trauma egg and basically write down every bad experience you could ever remember from your whole life. And the first time I did that, I was like reading them off with a smile. I'm like, and then this happened, and this happened, and this happened. And they're like, you're disconnected. You don't feel anything towards these. Because that's what trauma is. You disconnect from body. It's too painful in the moment to feel that. And so your body's like, okay, I'm not going to feel that. I'm going to do this. Instead, I'm going to become a people pleaser. I'm going to become a fixer, I'm going to become an overachiever. I'm going to become a whatever, all these things. And so that's like, the first thing is reconnecting that and.