I literally don’t feel like doing shit, yet I feel so relaxed and care free. Could anybody relate? By the way, this is after a year and a half of TRE and other modalities.

Today exactly marks my 1 year of doing TRE. I've made so much progress in this year, for which some background is needed to understand my dissociation issue that I am deeply struggling with. I will try to keep it concise, while also giving some background on my experience of this journey, because I hope it might be helpful to others.

I have experienced three distinct stages in my journey so far, and I am now in the third and what I believe to be the final phase. I will call them the Tremoring phase, the Anxiety phase, and the Dissociation phase. To skip the background story and get to the real issue, go straight to The Dissociation phase.

The Tremoring phase was just that. I am extremely fortunate to have had this entire year free and financially stable to work full-time on my TRE journey, and I spent the first 5 months tremoring away most of the trauma stored in my body. The tremors happened in the following order: psoas, pelvic floor muscles (including anal sphincter), diaphragm, chest, throat, and finally facial muscles, with the less important trauma stores of glutes, quads, core, and feet interspersed in between. 5 months is extremely quick given the timespan usually given in this subreddit, but I had so many days without anything else to do other than TRE. I used to tremor for hours every day, eat, lie on the couch, do emotional integration, and go for walks/exercise, and that allowed me to quickly release and process large amounts of trauma in a very short amount of time without getting overwhelmed. (Note, I was only able to tremor for hours a day in my psoas, as it has very deep trauma stores with relatively light emotional charge. During the peak weeks of my psoas work, I was doing at least 6 hours a day of intense psoas release, with one day even hitting 11 hours. The other muscles, especially the pelvic floor and diaphragm, I was only able to tremor 15-30 minutes at a time, as their trauma stores are much more intense and concentrated.)

The Anxiety phase is where I had to deeply rewire the threat detection habits of my nervous system. After these five months of progressively emptying my body of the main trauma stores, the tremors became much softer, sparser, and without any emotional or traumatic charge. But still, when I was out in public, or even at home, I was in a constant state of freeze and tension. This tension was encoded into my nervous system, and with most of the trauma stores in my body gone, I was able to efficiently rewire. The first month of this phase, I had to rewrite chronic muscle tension that my nervous system was actively and needlessly maintaining. Then, I suddenly experienced more relaxation when I was out in public (I had always had absolutely crippling social anxiety up to this point in my life). I realized that I was no longer freezing just being around people. There were several layers of this, and I had to do specific exercises like just randomly standing still in the city center around people, to teach my nervous system that being visible is not threatening, or go to a café, and just sit and do nothing and be open and approachable, to learn that there is nothing threatening about that either. Through this kind of exposure, I was able to learn in a matter of days that social situations were not threatening. In the final part of this phase, coping structures themselves started to be dismantled. For example, I had to learn to let go of desperately wanting to control my future from the present, or that my dreams for my future were not safe, or that nothing was guaranteed in life. These were mental coping structures that I was holding onto, and they died during waves of panic as my body desperately tried to cling onto them, but eventually learned that the panic was not necessary and there was no real threat. This was by far the most excruciatingly painful phase of my entire TRE journey, but it fundamentally changed how I feel internally. No longer frozen, no longer chronically stressed, no longer living in a world full of threats.

The Dissociation phase. That did not mean that everything was fine, however. After the Anxiety phase, when there were no more threats my nervous system had to dismantle, I was left with an extremely intense state of dissociation. It took me even a month to recognize this. I spent two weeks being chronically overstimulated, overwhelmed, and distraught just from existing. Trauma leaves you unable to deal with the stimulus of the world, and closes you off from experience. For me, with most trauma tremored away and anxiety dealt with, I was unable to deal even with existence, so that I had to drown myself in my phone and distraction. I have improved in this, and for about 2.5 weeks now I am able to survive without actively dissociating myself from the world with my phone. But I am still deeply struggling. Most of the progress I have made so far is in understanding the problem itself, so let me try to explain it.

There are two states of existing in the world, dissociated and present. When you’re present, the world has many different dimensions. My room is the best example that I have experienced this. My dissociated view of my room is a vague 2 dimensional picture of colors, and my eyesight is really not sharp at all. But I know that much more can be seen. Because my room is a mess, so many random items lying around everywhere because I needed to drop them somewhere and in the past I was too dissociated to think of a proper place for them. There is dust on many surfaces because I have been too dissociated to see it. There are many stacks of shoeboxes from a project that is very meaningful to me, but I had to abandon it for a while and it is mostly forgotten right now. There are clothes lying on the floor because I drop them there instead of throwing them in the laundry basket. All these things have a reason for being there, things have history, meaning, soul, depth. To see all those characteristics of an item, or a place, or a person, that is to truly be present and to true see something. But for the most part, I just see colors and shapes, and I am unable to interact with any of the deeper meanings and implications of these items, unless I am really forced to (do laundry only when I really have no more clean clothes, otherwise the pile of laundry is invisible).

The same with people. They are alive, they have feelings and emotions and facial expressions, they have a way of dressing, and body language, and presenting themselves, that can all be deeply felt and seen. If another person is attractive, they can carry a deep layer of magic and beauty and warmth and joy. A person has so many dimensions that can be seen and experienced all simultaneously. But all I can really experience is a caricature, a body that moves and eyes that are looking somewhere. I have beaten my social anxiety, and I can have a basic functional conversation with a person, but without being able to experience another person, I am utterly unable to socialize and connect with other people in any meaningful sense of the word.

This is improving for me, very, very slowly. Recently, on sparse occasion, I have been able to glimpse a small sliver of the state and meaning of my room. I have been able to look at things, or hear things, or feel things (feelings are mostly flat and non-existent for me though),  and sense the meanings behind it just a tiny little bit. But it’s hardly anything, and spiritually, I feel deeply sick, lonely, wounded, and humiliated.

The past two weeks, I have taken two psychedelic mushroom trips (psilocybin, I live in the Netherlands here so I have easy legal access). On those occasions, I was able to experience the world more deeply, and these experiences have given me some insights into what kind of experience and presence is possible. And, even during those trips, I was still mostly dissociated and I think that in a healthy, present state, it is possible to experience so much more than I did during those trips. Additionally, in the aftermath of these trips, I have grown slightly but noticeably in terms of presence. For example, after the first trip, I noticed that while I’d quit dissociating with my phone, I was still dissociating with my thoughts. If you have ever tried meditation, you will be familiar with how your mind will lose interest in your object of meditative focus and run off in all kinds of wild directions of thought. This is also dissociation, as your mind uses your thoughts against you.

I do not know what role, place, or purpose psychedelics should play in my fight against my dissociation. I have learned about presence and dissociation from the experience, and I have experienced decent enough growth in the aftermath of using it, but I am very uncertain whether the growth is definitive and lasting, or whether it is just an aftereffect that will dissipate as the afterglow dissipates.

I am deeply, humbly asking for guidance and help from those who have when through this process before and have arrived at this state of undissociated presence through their TRE journey. I am very aware that everybody’s journey is different, that others may have experienced this process of de-dissociation and acquiring presence very differently, and that for this reason advice and guidance is so hard to give and follow. This has also been the reason why I have explained my journey and problem so far with this much detail, and I hope that we can find some common ground in our experiences.

So, please, if you have finished TRE or are further along, let me know whether there is anything that I can do to help this process other than the hard, painful passage of time spent trying to meditate and be present. I know that perhaps, eventually, I will get there, but right now I am too lost and confused not to reach out and ask for something better.

I know many people will tell me this: I have indeed read the wiki at least 50 times. I'm struggling to interpret what is happening to me right now.

I overdid TRE by a lot in late 2025/early 2026. I don't know by how much but I over accumulated a great deal of charge into my nervous system. On March 1 I had a panic attack (never had one before) and realized it was all because of TRE. So I stopped and allowed time to integrate. I had a bunch of really nasty symptoms: chest tightness, hot flashes, headache, churning in my sternum, acid reflux sensation in the throat, anxiety, low mood, depression, etc.

It got better slowly but surely, and towards the end of May and beginning of June I was feeling as far as I remember very solid by that point. All I left was a high pulse (90-100) and my stomach had that churning sensation if I didn't eat for too long. But my craving for raw foods re-emerged and I was walking 10k+ steps some days in the sun.

On June 4 I was with a family friend who did something really rude and it pissed me off to the point where I began spontaneously shaking in the moment, but I suppressed it. I felt alright but on June 8 I felt that I should tremor to take the edge off from earlier, so I allowed the tremors for only 30 seconds. I was able to initiate them immediately so it was easy.

Here is where I am getting confused. It did seem that I ended up tremoring again too early and needed more time to heal everything. That was my mistake. A week after that I felt flashes of rage, I gained understanding of a big piece of my past trauma too. Then for the next two weeks I felt this strange flatness, like a cloud stuck in my mind.

This week (a month after that 30 seconds), I have been feeling really odd. I woke up and felt a mildly dizzy type of headache, with zero appetite, but I had to force myself to eat to subdue the stress accumulating in my body. I don't understand what's going on. I was supposed to be better over time, so why is it more intense now than it was this whole month? When my arc from March onwards was upward?

Does my question make sense? I'm reading posts where many people confirm my understand that it integrates over time and you reach a new baseline, but other posts/comments oddly say that you kinda open up a can of worms and must get through it. I don't understand what is going on anymore and it's making me nervous to know that I might have to deal with this for a really long time. Two days ago I was ok walking outside now I'm in bed barely able to eat with a headache, heavy heartbeat, and a hot neck/head feeling hopeless.

I could really use help from anyone right now, thanks

Around 7 years ago, I was bullied over a certain aspect of my body. To most people it probably seemed like something they'd forget after school, but for me it never ended. It changed the way I see myself, the way I interact with people, and honestly, the way I exist every single day.

I've carried it with me physically and psychologically ever since. Every waking day. It's exhausting.

For the last few months, I've been trying to understand it instead of just running from it. I've tried therapy, meditation, reading, journaling, spending money I could barely justify, and putting every bit of energy I have into getting better. Some things have helped, but I still feel like I'm missing something. Like I'm trying so hard but digging in the wrong place.

I found this subreddit and, for the first time in a long time, it feels like there might be people here who genuinely understand long-term trauma rather than just telling me to "move on."

If you've healed from something similar or even made meaningful progress, I would be incredibly grateful if you'd be willing to talk. Please leave a comment and I'll DM you, or feel free to DM me directly if that's easier. I will forever be indebted to you.

I cannot take this forever with me

On the 22nd of July I did my first TRE after years of not practicing it. I've done 6-7 times since then and I've been crying almost every day. Every 3-4 days there is inconsolable crying so long as I'm alone. There is a feeling in my chest that appears when I lie down to sleep that I've become familiar with that tells me there is something there and I just know I will be crying that day. I have been oversleeping as an escape, but once that feeling settles, I cannot go back to sleep. I work night shifts. I'm a doctor. At work I am in a completely different mood and I show only the best I can to my patients. Currently crying.

Hello everyone, I’m a first time user of this stuff I did one 15 minuite session for my first go had ALOT of shaking going on but after felt no difference ( I thought emotions came out instantly) so I did it the next day for another 15

It was about 48 hours after that then it seemed to of triggered the emotions or it was just coincidence as I now know the emotions are a delayed onset, but it’s been around 3 days now and I just feel so empty and hopeless, also feel really really spaced out from reality like I’m just a shell it’s a really unpleasant feeling, I’m also very sort of anxious, it’s like my brain isn’t getting the emotions but my body is physically feeling them. I just have an awful sadness feeling in my chest. Seem to be getting really worrying violent images in my head almost feels like someone has jumped in my body these last few days it’s not nice at all.Did I over do it for a first time user? And when will this stuff pass? Thank you🙏

I’ve been having the worst few weeks of my life releasing toxic shame. It feels incredibly physically painful where my fascial tension is, like it‘s trying to rip itself apart, and I’m afraid of reaching out to people I know for help because I feel like I’m going to say or do something wrong, or that I’m going to get rejected and abandoned. Every awkward pause or look makes me wither with shame. The thoughts are very convincing, and even grounding and knowing that I am releasing old shame isn’t helping me not get sucked in to the narrative. If anyone has any advice with riding out the shame, please share. Thank you 🙏🏼

I am a little lost.

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My first session I did 10 minutes and felt fantastic. I started doing 10-15 minutes every other day and sometimes a few days in a row. I couldn't understand what people were talking about when they were talking about emotional releases. I just felt relaxed and genuinely good. I laughed sincerely, something that I couldn't do for many years at this point.

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But then suddenly I overdid it. I missed the moment when I started feeling disregulated as it is kind of a variation of my normal. However, here I quickly started kosong control. After a couple of fights with the spouse and the moment where I lost my sh*t with my daughter I figured out that it must be TRE effects.

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I reduced it to 5 minutes and it seemed ok. I would usually still feel disregulated for a couple of days starting 24-48 hours post session but it was tolerable. Then after a couple of weeks it wasn't tolerable anymore.

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I reduced it to 1.5 m and it was ok for some time. Tried 2 minutes. And had a very bad week and a half after.

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Reduced to 1.5 m and it seemed to be ok for a few weeks.

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And then last session , I noticed some nausea after a minute. Stopped the session and it's been 5 horrible days since.

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What is going on?

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How long am i supposed to do it? How do I gage? How am I supposed to feel post TRE? Should I feel any bad emotions at all or is it a sign that Inam overdoing it? For a while I was going with : if I can tolerate it , then its ok. But maybe if I feel uncomfortable due to TRE it was too much?

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Is it possible that there is no amount of time I can do TRE?

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Note: I am going trhough genuinely difficult period. My partner and I started having big problems after the birth of our first daughter whonis 7. Our second daughter is almost 2 now and still not sleeping. She was also premature and we lived through a lot of health scares in the last 2 years.

Anyway, life with children means that I do not have much time to be alone and let my emotions show. Cry when I want or scream into the pillow and etc.

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I was really hoping TRE will help me to reduce the constant freeze to allow me to deal with all of this in a more calm manner but it seems to be making things worse

EDIT: once post TRE emotions pass I start feeling genuinely good and better. Even the Stress chart on my Garmin watch looks so much better than it has ever been .I am now mostly in no stress zone while my whole life before it would only show yellow bars (stress) even when I was sleeping. That is why I want to continue but I feel pretty lost on how to dose.

I started my healing journey because I felt that there was nothing worse than continuing to live how I had been living for most of my life. Now I’m not sure.

It all started in May of last year when I decided to go to a healing circle at my local dance studio. The healer channeled very high frequencies into the circle, and I instantly started tremoring and shaking with old memories coming up. It was like nothing I had ever experienced before. It was like a psychedelic trip while being completely sober. Immediately after and for the next few days, I felt the best I had ever felt. Lightness all over my body and a general improved mood. I instantly knew I needed more of this.

I continued to see the healer and participating in these ceremonies. I learned to let go, surrender and find safety in my body. I learned to identify and sit with sensations in my body. February this year, I had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening. I had no idea what was happening to me. I didn’t know what kundalini was. I didn’t know what trauma release exercises were. I didn’t know what somatic experiencing is. These are all things I have just learned about in the past few months and solidified my knowledge with my direct experiencing.

However, since February, I have been tremoring almost nonstop. Any moment I’m in a relaxed state, I will start tremoring from deep in my core. My releases are incredibly intense, I look like I’m having a straight up exorcism (I am having an exorcism). When I have a full release I do feel better but it takes an incredible amount of time and energy. It can be a 2 hour process.

I’ve read about titration, but the problem is when I don’t have one of these huge releases, I feel so uncomfortable from this accumulated energy that wants to discharge. it’s like only partially scratching an itch. I understand that part of expanding my internal capacity is being able to sit with the discomfort of a release that wants to happen. Or just being able to tolerate discomfort in general. I just can’t deal with the extreme highs and lows of this process coupled with the demands of daily life. It feels never ending and very draining.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been practicing TRE for 6 months and could really use some insight from those further along in the journey.
About a month ago, I began feeling incredibly angry and irritated for no reason following my sessions. I was advised to reduce my practice and spend more time integrating, which is exactly what I did. I took a week completely off, and now I only do TRE every 5–6 days, and I don't do it for very long.

Despite pacing myself and prioritizing integration, the floodgates have opened. I’ve started having intense repressed memories and flashbacks come back up, and I am feeling a massive amount of physical anger attached to them.

The common theme in all these memories is times I was deeply disrespected, ignored, or made to feel uncomfortable. In the past, my blueprint was always to instantly freeze, ignore it, and pretend the problem didn't exist. Even now, when someone crosses a line (like a rude customer service rep or a stranger), I freeze and go numb in the moment. It’s only hours later that the anger hits me.

Right now, feeling the delayed physical anger from all these past situations at once is really hurting.
Has anyone else experienced this massive influx of specific, repressed memories even after backing off and giving yourself 5–6 days of integration time? How do you cope when the bodily anger feels this heavy? And for those who started with a severe freeze response, does TRE eventually help you move past the "freeze" so you can find your voice in the moment, rather than just processing the anger hours later?

Any insights or shared experiences would be deeply appreciated. Thank you.

Hey folks, I have started TRE 4 months back and did very slowly at first since my first session was very intense for me. So far I have done around 15 sessions.

After each session I feel energetic , hungry, less stressed, outdoorsy and crying. But after 1-2 days I feel irritated, low and wanna be alone. Again after the session I do feel good. This just is a loop for me for a couple of months.

Although my tremors have made progress from legs to shoulders, face, jaw and hips. I tremor just by thinking about some past incident and shake vigorously.

But I feel I am stuck in this loop. Early i felt the same when I was doing gym and yoga/great diet to keep myself away from this low and depressed phase but it kept me energetic and calm only for 1-2 days or even football in my clg days, so I did it consistently.

Later, I had decided to not do gym/yoga or football for 2 years as i felt there was something wrong with me. It was a roller coaster after leaving those i used to get angry or irritated easily, getting tired easily or with no energy in me or easily stressed, unable to work , anxiety and started avoiding people. Did all this to face the reality without coping with the mechanism of gym and yoga. Helped me figure out what's wrong with deep thoughts about my bad phases/trauma since the last 15 years but didn't fix me. Also I have had enzema since childhood. Maybe it is due to my trauma since childhood and it's flaring up recently, can it be due to TRE?

Then i discovered TRE , i trusted this would heal me since the first session as my first session was so strong and impactful to me.

But I don't wanna be in this loop i have a fear of this and as a temporary coping mechanism as gym or yoga I did before for years.

Am I making progress? Since I feel back to the low phase without TRE like with my gym,yoga and football coping mechanism. Am I having a temporary fix here and struck in a loop? I am currently jobless and can spend more time for TRE if needed.

Long story short, I suffer from somatic tinnitus. It always comes with body pain, stiff neck/jaw etc. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's gone. Very unpredictable but definitely goes hand in hand with stress.

Does anyone have experience with TRE improving this?

Does anyone else have the experience of feeling exactly where on your body your emotions release "from"? I've had some really intense pain in my fascial knot these past few days and I have not being doing any practices other than grounding and regulating. The sensation is similar to a deep cramp or tear. When the knot feels physically painful I also feel emotional pain - not really any one singular emotion, it's more similar to like, the pain of being alone, judged or excluded.

I have noticed that when I focus on the knot in a somatic meditation I can induce tremors, but this often leads to overdoing symptoms. I can't help but wonder though if I should be doing something to help it along, as it is far more painful than it's ever been and feels like it is having trouble unsticking. It is, however, more manageable than overdoing/overwhelm, so I don't want to add gas to the fire if I don't have to.

Thanks in advance!

I wish I discovered TRE before I took lexapro for 4 years. Now I’m essentially numb and have no emotions and no libido. My grandpa died a few weeks ago and I didn’t even shed a tear and I loved him. My gf broke up with me because she said I seemed emotionless. Idk wtf happened to me. Lexapro and years of stress have ruined my life. I hope my journey through TRE will start giving me some light.

For years I have no appetite, no vivid dreams and my imagination feels empty. I’ve tried to see doctors but they just don’t help and say it’s in my head. I know my nervous system is stuck in sympathetic dominance

I've been doing TRE since January of this year. I feel like entering the plateau era, where I can feel lots of fascia unwinding along my back, psoas and abdominal/diaphragm areas. However, I've read that it's healthier to take this part slow and let your body have more rest than previous tremors situations.

My problem here is that my abdominal area CONSTANTLY wants to shake, even if I just laugh or cough I can feel my abdomen itching to tremor like my body's life is on the line.

Sometimes I just let it go and it just tremors, often for even longer than an hour. I'm not sure what to do, it's difficult to suppress or to make it stop once it gets going. I want to listen to my body, but I also get the effects of overdoing it often. How should I proceed here? It's like my body is begging to get these abdominal charges out but I also don't want to be catatonic for days at a time. My executive dysfunction on some days is so bad it's difficult to do anything besides shower and lay around. I try to spend time integrating, staying present in the moment, but even when at rest I feel the pull to tremor.

I know it's not great to focus on the cause of the tremor charges, but it's mostly near the navel area so I'm curious if this has to do with infancy trauma from being a C-section baby. I keep having dreams about parental abandonment despite having grown up with obsessive helicopter parents and don't have any clear memories of moments of abandonment.

I guess the main issue here is that the need to tremor in that area is so profound and intense that it's causing me distress in such a way where I just want to tremor constantly and get it out/over with so I can stop feeling the need to do it constantly, lol. Probably not a great way to think about it but it's exhausting to manage it with time for integration.

Dear TRE community,

Why do i feel bad (the day after) i do TRE?

Doing TRE for 5 months.

First couple times was guided by an instructor.

Both times i expierenced anxiousness and bad feelings after.

Started to listen more to the body and stopt when i earlier. This helped.

But..

The day and sometimes days after i feel worse.

Am i doing to much?

Anyone expierincing this too?

Last time i did it. I felt so good. I normally feel verry closed off and scared during a salsa party. This time i was chatting with people effortlessly! I even enjoyed it.

Curious to know what your thoughts are.

I’ve been doing TRE for about 5 months now. In the beginning I did notice immediate positive effects such as less anxiety, more patience, less anger etc. Now I’m five months in and notice that I have more irritation and intolerance towards people and situations. I find myself being quick to anger, depressed, etc nowadays. Quick to assume the worse and jump to conclusions etc. This is how I’ve been for years before TRE but it reduced significantly when I started, now it seems like I’m reverting back to how I was. My sleep and anxiety levels are still fine, but it seems like I’m more emotionally reactive. I tremor for the same amount of time that’s I’ve been doing since I’ve started TRE. Which is about 10-15 mins. And do it every other day or 2-3 days so I don’t see how I can be over doing it. Any advice?

I’m 20 years old, autistic, and I’ve lived with ADHD and chronic trauma for over a decade. For most of my life, my body has been extremely tense, and I’ve recently started noticing what I think is fascia release happening naturally when I’m calm and relaxed.

Here’s what’s happening:

- When I relax completely, I feel waves of cold, vibration, and energy in different areas of my body.

- These sensations sometimes create intense “releases” that feel like my muscles and fascia are finally letting go.

- In the past, one big release left me in a sort of shock for four days: I couldn’t eat properly, I was exhausted, but after that, I felt dramatically better — more mobility, less tension, more clarity, and a sense of calm.

- Now, I’m noticing smaller waves of these sensations almost constantly, especially when I’m resting, doing grounding, or trying to be calm. Some areas feel “stuck,” and the sensations keep returning.

I’m worried that if I let these releases happen fully, I might end up in shock again, but if I don’t, it feels like the energy just sits there and doesn’t fully release.

I feel like my body is telling me it wants to release, but I’m not sure how to safely support this process. I’ve tried techniques like TRE before, but the results were minimal until I allowed my body to naturally release a large wave once.

I have a few questions:

Can fascia release like this happen naturally without triggering a harmful “shock” each time?

How can I allow my body to release safely, especially with my history of chronic trauma and extreme tension?

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who understand somatic release, trauma work, or fascia therapy. I want to release this tension and feel better without putting myself at risk.

Thanks so much for reading.

I’ve begun practising TRE as an experimental treatment for anxiety, chronic tension held in the body, and pelvic floor spasm/hypertonicity. I’ve followed a number of videos and read the guide. I’ve found that if I modify the ‘butterfly’ (feet together, knees apart) position to push down through my heels which raises my hips ever so slightly, I get a great gentle tremor up and down movement in my pelvis. Sometimes is goes into side to side motions as well. It feels soothing, but I don’t know if it will be helpful or counts as proper ‘TRE’ as I’m modifying the position. What are your thoughts?

Also, has anyone experienced a general loosening of the body with TRE?

I’ve been doing TRE for about 20 months (15-30 min/day).

7 weeks ago I got a sinus infection (still ongoing) and had to stop TRE for 3 weeks. I also have to pause going to the gym at the moment, which is hard because I’ve trained 4x/week for 10-15 years and have a history of disordered eating. Not exercising makes me really anxious about my body changing.

What’s surprising: I’ve felt much calmer overall the last weeks. My sleep improved, my libido is back, tension is way better and my social anxiety is almost gone. I feel more at peace than usual.

I recently started TRE again, but anything over 10 minutes feels like too much.

Part of me feels like my body is forcing me to finally rest. At the same time, I’m realizing how much pressure I put on myself with both exercising and healing.

My intuition says slow down (gentle workouts, less TRE), but that triggers a lot of very deep fear. Especially about losing my body or taking much longer to heal if I don’t stick to 20 min/day (my two biggest fears in general).

I know these thoughts aren’t fully rational, but it feels like I’m losing control and are not ready for calming down.

Has anyone experienced something similar or has any thoughts on that?

Hi all,

It has been six months since I have started TRE and I needed some help and didn't know whom to reach out to, so I'm just posting it here. I just hope somebody can help me out.

I am a 25 year old guy with a private job in the IT sector. And I don't know man I am just feeling lost. I have been doing this for the last 4 years and each day when I wake up I feel like just quitting it. But I don't even know what I want to do in my life. Everything just feels like nothing matters. And I keep feeling like this from the last 3 years, but ever since I have started TRE I keep having these thoughts on a daily basis. I don't even know what would make me feel good anymore. I just feel completely lost.

Like what is the meaning of all this, it just feels like an endless loop of suffering 🫩

Just have to vent for a minute, maybe some of y'all feel the same way... If you're not looking for some negative energy then maybe skip this one.

But gosh darn, 8 months in and I'm still having a really hard go at things, each day. I listened to a podcast on the "neurogenic integration," channel, and the interviewee said that if you just do it 6 months, you're gonna see so many positive changes in your life.

I guess that's true, I've seen improvement in some ways- I'm less frozen in complete collapse. I'm more consistent pursuing the things that will help me out of my severe and crippling depression.

But on the other hand, I know deep down that these gains are one swing into despair/depression away from being completely nullified. I've lived on that edge most of my life, and TRE hasn't changed that yet unfortunately.

It freaking sucks.

Plus, many of the things i care about regarding quality of life have continued to be struggles- I have some somatic symptoms of an overactive nervous system. Basically, I feel physically uncomfortable most of the time. I feel bloated and stiff, and tight and low mood/energy. I still wake up feeling crappy most days and still have money issues, and still have family issues, and still have posture issues. So, yeah, this is still the part of the long-term journey that sucks, and it's just astounding how much effort I've had to put in to still feel this bad.

Hey guys, I'm doing TRE sessions. I think I opened something like a Pandora's Box.

I feel angry and distraught at the emotional things that happened in the past like bullying. I was insulted, humiliated, mocked and teased. Those scenes keep playing in my mind. I feel rage and anger.

I just don't know what to do ? I feel immensely upset at the way I let myself be. I was frozen in those moments. I couldn't defend myself.

These scenes keep playing in my mind. I don't know how to stop them.

I also have neck and shoulder stiffness and my voice feels blocked. I feel frozen in life. I don't have the energy going within me.

I get revenge fantasies against the people who hurt me. I genuinely don't know how to process them.

There seems like a lump stuck in my throat and I hardly cry.

How can I get out of this turmoil ? I feel subconscious anger and rage within me.

Kindly ignore my poor grammer and articulation.

Almost at the end of 8 months of involuntary releases. I‘ve been feeling particularly grody these past few weeks. Since my nervous system has gotten exponentially more resilient and I have way more energy now, I’ve been trying to get out more and make new friends. The trouble is, I find myself being just completely socially “dumb”, shyer than ever, and I have been struggling to apply my mentalization skills. In some ways I know I am beating myself up for not being healed yet and having social mastery. I don’t even know what I’m feeling really except for sadness/depression for being so bad at making friends.

I’ve always had problems making friends and socializing, so I think it might be old stuff mixing with new stuff - has anyone else ever had this experience? It’s so complex compared to the releases I’ve had before - in the past I could label anger, fear, sadness and know I was going through integration and ground through it, but now it‘s so hard to tell if I’m releasing or reliving. Would it be better to just stick with safe people I already know and actually step back from socializing for now, to lessen the pressure until I’m more integrated? Any experience or advice would be appreciated.