Window of Tolerance: Hypoactivity

 

You can use the Window of Tolerance diagram (Sine wave) when stress response flare up or you are feeling down. It helps stabilize and stop spiraling.

Unpacking painful memories in the past few days overloaded your nervous system and naturally activated survival-mode reactions. Recognizing these cycles shows your growing self-mastery.

Seeing cause-and-effect helps you respond strategically with care, not criticism. Understanding your inner world empowers you.

Expected ups-and-downs processing trauma will lead back to calmness soon with consistent self-care and non-resistance. Nurturing all feelings leads to wholeness.

Meeting yourself with compassion creates new pathways beyond fighting your reactions. Honoring all parts brings freedom.

As you understand trauma impacts, refuse to shame your body's adaptations, which saved you more than once during your childhood. Caring for these parts clears fog to see forward.

Letting turmoil fully express (without ANY crutches) in your presence helps you protect inner self. By accepting afraid parts, you regain authority to guide you onward.

You account for exhaustion from hypervigilance with self-kindness. No part now excluded. Tenderness for the past fuels hope, not blame.