Contemplation Counselling

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When you're triggered, your body is reacting to past danger. It might feel scary, but it's normal, especially after you've lived through trauma. To help get through it, you've got to calm the nervous system down and bring your mind back to the present.

We’ve talked a lot about the “usual” coping skills, but honestly? Sometimes the silly stuff works best.

Why?

Because play, movement, laughter, comfort, music, rhythm, and even ridiculous dancing can interrupt the brain’s alarm system. They help signal to your nervous system: “Hey… we’re safe right now.”

Trauma pulls us into survival mode. Silly things pull us back into being human.

So , go ahead...
Build that a blanket fort
Perform a Grammy-winning shower concert
Dance around your kitchen like nobody's watching

Your nervous system might actually thank you for it.

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If you're lying awake Sunday night running through everything that could go wrong this week, your mind is running a threat loop instead of helping you prepare. 🆘 😵‍💫

Here's what that actually does to you: your mind and body respond to an imagined threat the same way they respond to a real one. Every worst-case you rehearse activates the same stress response as if it were already happening. By Monday morning you've already lived through a week of disasters that never occurred. And you're wrecked before the week even starts.

Managing your mind is what actually prepares you. The loop does the opposite.
Try this: Write down the one thing you're most worried about. Just one. Then write one action you can take. Everything else stays on the page, out of your head.

Pass this to someone who needs it tonight. 💛