https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/11/25/healing-self-blame-from-childhood-trauma/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/11/25/healing-self-blame-from-childhood-trauma/#comment-42180 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:10:13 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987498836#comment-42180 The affirmations/statements are encouraging but IMO not likely to lead to real transformation of implicit emotional learnings. They are cognitive statements and if simply telling ourselves these things could transform the beliefs and associated triggers/trauma responses then affirmations would have healed billions by now. I encourage practitioners to learn about memory reconsolidation and integrating the TRP and 3 steps of activate, mismatch, repeat- to their chosen experiential modality to really begin to help people experience transformation more consistently. (the paradigm shift you mentioned at the beginning of your article) Bruce Ecker book “Unlocking the Emotional Brain” is a perfect place to start.

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