# Tips to overcome trauma - Be aware of what [[Trauma]] is - Challenge of helping people overcome trauma: how to help people to live in bodies that feel fundamentally *safe* - Different things work for different people - Good psychotherapy helps - Not to fix you but to help you acknowledge - How terrible what happened to you was - How normal your reactions are - That you need to take care of the wounds you're carrying inside - Control self-loathing and defectiveness - Self-compassion and knowing that your reactions are understandable are critical to start recovering from trauma - [[Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)]] - [[Yoga]] - Theater and movement** - Playing different roles in your body helps you feel that your body can feel differently depending on how you organize your relationship to yourself - Theater helps you have a deep experience of yourself in different possibilities (e.g., what is it like to be a king, a queen, an animal, etc) - [[Neural feedback]] - Putting electrodes on the skull so that when you make brainwaves that make you calm and focused, you get a reward - Help shape the brain to have a different configuration - Help the brain be open to new experiences - Psychedelics - Help open up the mind - Help realize that the reality you're living is just a small part of the reality that there is - [[Ecstasy (MDMA)]] ## References - 6 ways to heal trauma without medication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoZT8-HqI64 - [[Bessel van der Kolk]]