WORKSHEET: CONNECTING TO YOUR BODY

Your Body Will Tell You

What Previous Trauma
Needs to be Retraced
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Regulation that starts in your body builds a foundation for resilience

and regulation that allows you to gradually process sensations,
emotions, perceptions, and thoughts from past trauma.

When you discharge the energy and hormones mobilised with the stress
stored in your body, you bring your nervous system back into balance.

Think back to a recent time you experienced stress. How did your body respond?

Did your posture, facial expression or breathing change?

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What actions did you take in response to the stress?

How did those actions affect you, did the stress ease, remain the same, or increase?

What actions could you take in the future to support yourself when stress arises?
(e.g. breathing exercises, movement, pacing yourself)