Heal Dysregulation To Bring Calm To Your Emotions and Your Nervous System

I love that we are finally looking at trauma from a neurological stand point. We can really look at healing on a deeper level from this perspective.

It's in a way so unfair that the people who experienced trauma and continuous stressful/unsafe situations during childhood, have such a hard task to heal themselves later in adult life! 😊

I had a brain scan and the person doing it said she'd never seen such dysregulated and chaotic brain waves. She said "How are you even walking around" which really scared me. She also said it was like parts of my brain were hanging out doing their own thing. She'd never seen it before. Later, I was diagnosed with D.I.D. what was formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I finally was able to get some good help and now we are in the process of integration after many years of brutally hard work. Learning to regulate is vitally important.

I have to start the videos over so many times because I realize I was gone for a second there. Everything is so exhausting but it’s good to remember it’s not just me

I felt a physical “switch off” when I was 12 and my mother was walking quickly ahead of me in the mall, I asked her why she was going so fast and she turned to me and said she was embarrassed to be seen with me because I was so fat. I actually felt a switch go off in my head. My father was cruel to me as well by humiliating me on several occasions in social situations. I’m now 55 and caregiving for them. Life is very difficult for me, very difficult. Your channel helps.

Cptsd is not just caused by childhood trauma but also from narcissistic abuse in adulthood

My 'trigger' lives with me. Growing up with an emotionally unavailable mother and a mentallly-ill father; my sister and I were extremely neglected. Now that my mom has moved in with my family (temporarily), I am just starting my healing journey. Her presence has forced me face my own dysfunction and how she contributes to it. Her actions(or lack thereof) have contributed to some severe dysfunction in my extended family as well and I am now raising my (half)sister's children, ages 11, 10, 5, and 3. The oldest girls also have CPTSD and helping them through their healing journey is helping all of us. I want to stop the cycle of abuse and your videos are priceless. I will have to watch this multiple times just to absorb all. ❤️

Dealing with trama and habitual burnout, I really thought I was losing my mind. Insomnia, procrastination, forgetfulness, brain farts, no filter for my words, ect ect. I really was beating myself up until I started researching. Understanding "why" I had such symptoms really allowed me to quit condemning myself and get on the road to recovery. I'm still healing but understanding the cause really helps to speed up the recovery process. Thank you so much for all the healing and compassion you share. You are a beam of light and your doing awesome awesome work! Thank you X's a million!! 💛👍🌻

My mom would say to me; "you take days to come back with a response when someone has spoken to you rudely or in an inappropriate manner". And I still have that same issue....It takes me days to process some things and often it's too late or if I must respond immediately, I often say the wrong thing and regret it later.

When I feel disregulated, my whole body hurts, I have monumental migraines and I also tend to fall down. I get stabs of pain everywhere, like I have a voodoo doll that someone is randomly stabbing. I feel tearful and all the appointments I have with my doctor does no good at all. I call it a flare up. ❤

This woman and her teachings are like prayers being answered for so long❤

Running your wrists, specifically ,under warm water really helps bring calmness to nervous system. When you're able put your feet in a warm salt bath!

Certain music re-regulates my brain.

I finally realized a couple of years ago that calming my CNS and “being regulated” was the key to the whole game for me. It’s key.

I wish people working in the current industial disease complex would be required to have some education/understanding of this. It is insane to be traumatized anytime I try to get helped. So frustrating! Thank you for being a sane voice in an increasingly insane world, Anna.

When I'm disregulated, it feels like a runaway train that i can't stop. It builds and builds until i lash out verbally or via writing. I try to pause but it feels like i have no control, knowing that im going to do or say something I regret. Then i feel shame and hide away. It's a cycle I've not managed to break yet, but thanks to Anna, I'm working on it!

It was so incredibly difficult to grow up and to be an adult with CPTSD. So many missed opportunities and so many challenges with the personality behavior and thought patterns that CPTSD created. I often thought how could I be so developmentally challenged and stupid when I was on the honor society. How do I raise my children with no support? With, now absolutely no family and no friends due to isolation, no executive functioning skills, not financially stable even though I have a degree, etc...... At 52 yrs I'm finally beginning to see all the ways we can be affected by CPTSD, and finally beginning the healing after all these years. I'm so very grateful for your videos and your journey, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us🙏

before watching, I'lll tell you my CPTSD symptom that i think limits my whole life. ... "not being able to communicate in real time. not being able to think of words, say them. not able to receive words and understand them in real time, and respond." I can't navigate in the world like that. It's basically an issue of Slow and Delayed Processing of information to do with language.

My trauma is that my father had a massive stroke when I was 8 and then lymphatic cancer when I was 9. He almost died. Imagine that as a near baby. I have struggled with this almost uncontrollable urge to “save” because in my mind then they won’t die. I was not abused. I was traumatized. Got me into one bad marriage and then a truly horrific abusive one. I can’t believe I finally said this.

When I'm dysregulated I'm prone to have panic attacks, I've been having issues with that lately as I haven't really feel safe in my environment even though it is. By Christmas since everything was so chaotic and I was dysregulated I had a severe panic attack and somehow the stress from everything combined lowered my immune system, that very same night I had a really bad fever and turns out I had a serious virus that made me seriously ill for more than a week, obviously that added up to my previous state and all of this just somehow has made me so incredibly disconnected from everything, my body, my home, my family, my whole environment, I go out and everything feels fake and surreal. I'm really numb, I feel like a robot on autopilot and I don't really know how to come back, the only thing I'm starting to feel is depression. I'm really concerned and I don't really have any kind of support.