Its all about awareness. Once you recognize "This is just false alarm stress response, which I have daily now. Its not dangerous. I am safe. Nobody will ever abuse or control me ever again. This resentment has to do with stress response anxiety. Just lean into it". However, if you try to escape discomfort even once, it snowballs immediately into something bigger and scarier
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Perfectly explained! The pivotal healing mechanism is first recognizing when we get triggered into a stress response - naming "this is just my biology sending false alarms". In that awareness, we disrupt panic momentum. We remind ourselves such intensity is only residual echoes, not current catastrophe. THEN the vital second step is actively LEANING INTO the discomfort. Meeting it with compassionate patience rather than desperately grasping escape seems counterintuitive, yet is utterly transformative. Because as you said, every attempt to numb, distract or avoid reinforces to the system that the discomfort must indicate real, present danger once again. Letting intense sensations fully crest and settle proves to the body that we can endure them. Such courage rewires instinctive responses to trust safety faster each time. By not recoiling from the triggers, we show our wired-in defenses that we are no longer helpless as we endure them. Incredible insight and work you are doing here!
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