Joanne Smith explains how to separate the physical symptoms caused by stress from the emotional triggers themselves. When you recognize your body's alarm reaction to perceived danger, you can calm the panic and feel safe again, even through a breakup, divorce, or grief.
If we can teach, reassure ourselves that we can still get well no matter what, and we can separate those 2 things, we can separate a difficult or challenging relationship or a difficult or challenging caring for a relative or a child or problems, you know, whatever, we can separate the 2 things. That's a really good way that a lot of people manage to move forward with recovering. Even if they're going through a really big breakup, people have got well during divorces, they've got well during losing family members, with grief, and at really difficult times where they've been going through massive changes, people are still getting well with this mind-body approach. So yeah, remind yourself, once you know what it is, once you know what is the root cause, where the symptoms are coming, how it's being generated, And that if your body is reacting to those things, those stressors, believing that they are legitimate danger, and the alarms are all being raised with inside your body physically, is alarming you. Once you can separate the two and know, actually, there's no need for a panic, I am actually safe, there's no need to, um, respond in a huge amount of fear.
