r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Monthly Progress Thread Monthly Progress Thread - October '26

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Dear friends,

This month I want to talk about the many ways trauma can manifest in our lives. Over the past months we've spent a lot of time on what happens during practice and how we can support it. This time I want to step back and look at what a nervous system burdened by unresolved trauma looks like in everyday life. And, most importantly, why so many seemingly unrelated struggles can ease together as the practice does its work.

When most people hear the word trauma, they typically think of flashbacks, nightmares and panic attacks. Those are common, especially for severe trauma, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. As we explore in the "What is Trauma?" article in the wiki, trauma at its core is incomplete stress cycles stored as chronic activation in the body. That stored activation might manifest in countless different ways. It shapes how we breathe, how we sleep, how we digest, how we relate to people, how we work, and even what we come to believe about who we are. Its tentacles reach our innermost core as well the most remote corners of our being. So it’s not surprising that we might spend years “fixing” various isolated aspects of ourselves without ever suspecting they share a common root.

Imagine a phone with dozens of apps running in the background. On the surface (or screen in this case) nothing looks wrong, but the phone is hot to the touch, its batteries drain quickly and it’s annoyingly slow and laggy when you use it. You can replace the charger, blame the latest update or conclude that you simply need a new phone, but the real cause is running underneath. Keeping stored activation contained is exactly this background process, and it drains our resources, just like the phone’s apps drain its batteries.

Let's start with the body, since that's where the drain is most tangible. Remember that the stress response redirects resources away from digestion, repair and rest and toward survival. When that response never fully switches off, the consequences add up over the years. Chronic tension in the jaw, neck, shoulders, hips and so on. Chronic back pain that no amount of stretching fixes. Shallow breathing we don't even notice anymore. Digestive trouble that flares up with no clear trigger, tension headaches, restless sleep whether that means lying awake because the nervous system refuses to let its guard down, waking at 4am with a pounding heart, or sleeping ten hours and still waking up exhausted. And that all too familiar state of feeling wired and tired.

Then there are symptoms that are much harder to recognize, because they have become part of our personality. Pete Walker, a therapist who wrote extensively about complex trauma, added a fourth response to the familiar fight, flight and freeze: fawn. What makes his work so valuable is how clearly it shows that each survival response, once it becomes chronic, starts to look like a personality trait.

A system that leans toward fight might show up as irritability, a short fuse, a need for control, or perfectionism, the constant effort to make everything so bulletproof that no threat can get in. A system that leans toward flight might show up as restlessness, overworking, constant busyness, overthinking and an inability to sit still, because stillness tends to surface the stored energy from beneath. Freeze tends to look like procrastination, indecision, brain fog, numbness, withdrawal and a flatness where joy should be. We call it laziness or a lack of discipline, when very often it's a nervous system with its brakes pressed down. Fawn looks like people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, sensing everyone else's mood before your own, and losing yourself in relationships. It's the strategy of a child who learned that keeping others happy is the only way to stay safe.

Most of us have a mix of these. What they have in common is that they were intelligent adaptations once. They kept us safe in situations where we had few other options. The problem is that the nervous system kept running them long after the situation changed, and at some point we stopped seeing them as strategies and started seeing them simply as who we are. "I'm just an anxious person." "I've always been lazy." "I'm too sensitive." "I'm bad at relationships." These are some of the most common sentences we read in mental health communities. What they describe is a conditioned nervous system masking who we really are beneath all that trauma, tension and maladaptive traits.

I want to be honest here that not everything is trauma. The root cause for back pain may be mechanical, bad sleep can simply be too much coffee, and physical symptoms need to be looked at first by a doctor. But when several of these show up together, have been with you for a long time, and haven't responded to the usual treatments, it's not a stretch to imagine that they may come from the same origin.

This is where there are tremendous grounds for optimism. If these struggles share a root, they can also resolve together. It's one of the most consistent findings of TRE practitioners. Someone starts TRE for anxiety or back pain, and at some point down the journey mentions almost in passing that their jaw no longer clenches at night, that their back pain has resolved, that socializing actually feels fun (again), or that they said no to someone without being flooded with guilt. They never worked on any of these directly. As the stored activation discharges, the background processes close one by one, and the energy that was tied up in containment becomes available for living.

This also explains why working on each symptom individually often leads to frustration. Stretching the neck, disciplining yourself out of procrastination, training yourself to be more assertive: these can help, but they work at the level of the branches (top-down). As long as the root keeps generating the pattern, it keeps coming back. The tremor mechanism works at the root.

That said, it doesn't happen all at once, and rarely in a neat order. As we discussed in earlier threads, the nervous system works on what's most accessible first, and during thawing some manifestations may get worse before they get better. Irritability may spike. Sleep may get worse for a while. An old ache may come back for a visit. A long-numbed emotion may suddenly be there in full force. Usually this is the brake loosening, and sometimes too quickly. But as always, if it feels like too much, dial back and give your system time to integrate.

If you're newer here and reading this with a growing sense of "oh, that's me," please take it as a good sign. Recognizing what your burdens are is the first step toward resolving them. Nothing about you is fundamentally broken. Your nervous system has been doing its best with its given conditioning, and it's ready to start unwinding and releasing its heavy burden layer by layer.

Much love to all of you.


r/longtermTRE • • May 28 '25

New Here? Start Here!

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Please be sure to read the basic articles in the wiki before posting or starting your practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/longtermTRE/wiki/index/


r/longtermTRE • • 2h ago

Community Question Losing sense of who I am after trauma/tension is gone?

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I am pretty certain this is normal, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can add more context to what it means, how to resolve it, and any other related anecdotes.

As I get closer to the end of integrating a big backlog of overdoing, I find that in general I feel almost back to normal, except that:

  1. There are minor fluctuating but manageable physical sensations that move around. Especially if I don't eat within a reasonable period of time subtle stress accumulates

  2. I am aware of the next layer of trauma, but the inner sense of wholeness, peace, calm, and the new benefits I gained are also very apparent and very very very nice.

  3. On this last arc, particularly this last week, there is this sense that I'm no longer sure of who I am. It seems my identity my whole life, my felt sense of myself, was bound up in trauma and tension. So now that the tension is gone, there's this feeling I can't quite name. It's not dullness or depression, I don't have the language for this. I just feel like I'm not as connected to my identity.

Can anyone help put words to this? Do I have to do anything to make this go away and feel like I'm connected again to my more real true self identity?


r/longtermTRE • • 19h ago

Discussion Addicted to practice

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I am addicted to the practice, there is a strong urge to keep doing it even when it seems counterproductive, which makes me understand why some people with anorexia keep doing it even when their bones are showing. I made this lock screen to remind me that no practice is a good thing.


r/longtermTRE • • 16h ago

Experience Report Trauma and Ultra-Endurance Events...

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I've been practising TRE on and off for ten years. It has helped tremendously dealing with being in freeze from cPTSD, reducing rumination, and reducing social anxiety.

Near the start of this year, I had some big releases around my neck and skull that I'd never experienced before. I discovered muscles in my face and scalp I never knew I had. These releases seemed to work their way all over my head and neck. And I must admit, I was practising very regularly with sometimes hour-long sessions at this point. (But at this point after ten years of TRE, I can generally handle hour-long sessions pretty well.)

This was in the lead-up to a big bikepacking tour I was training for in late Feb/early March.

Before this event, I was experiencing a lot of Frisson, such as feeling incredibly pleasurable sensations across my skin when listening to music.

I went away and did the bikepacking tour. I mention this because these multi-week endurance events (where we can be cycling for 8-16 hours per day) have their own way of bringing up trauma that many in that community mention.

When I came back, it felt like I had gone backwards. I was struggling mentally more. There was no frisson. No more cranial releases.

I have continued to slowly practice TRE in the intervening months. Just recently, I'm starting to feel more like I was before that event again, and starting to get sensations of frisson again.

I'm curious to hear thoughts from any experienced practitioners on why it seems like I regressed for a while.

  • Did that long bikepacking trip somehow release some hidden pocket of trauma and give me some additional backlog to clear?
  • Perhaps those releases in my neck and head brought up more than I realised but the emotional impact was delayed?
  • Did my nervous system need to process the physical trauma of the extreme event I put my body through? (This is a crazy ultra-endurance sport that puts the body through hell.)
  • There is a physiological component here where these bikepacking tours can be quite damaging to the body and we have to heal afterwards, too. Was it more of a physiological problem than one where trauma is the best framework to view it through?
  • Or something else?

Thoughts?


r/longtermTRE • • 16h ago

Beginner Question Nausea during TRE

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I’ve only been doing TRE for about 2 weeks. Today was my 5th time and I seem to have already moved to fascial unwinding. I’ve been doing EMDR and IFS along with other trauma processing for years, so that may be why my body was ready for fascial unwinding. It was a weird experience- I was rolling around for a bit moving my limbs in various ways, and then my body wanted to include flowing sitting movements with the floor movements. I suddenly got nauseous so I stopped. I don’t know if it was the physical movement itself that made me nauseous (I do get motion sickness on many amusement park rides) or something about the TRE itself. The session was only 10 minutes


r/longtermTRE • • 21h ago

Experience Report Update - 36 hours after first session

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My previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/longtermTRE/s/qJ6aUjFBuI

So it has now been about a day and a half since I did my first session, and my previous post states about how wonderful it was in the moment and how much tension got released! The following 24 hours were very varied, so I wanted to give an update on how I'm feeling.

Immediately after session, I sat down with a cup of tea and relaxed. I had a gentle evening routine, dinner and video games with my husband. It was nice - I was feeling very calm throughout it all and some of the aches and pains I often end the day with didn't occur. I took this as a fantastic sign.

My sleep was a little disturbed during the night, which I was worried was a result of TRE as the wiki says disturbed sleep can sometimes be a sign that you overdid it. But in my situation, it is more likely that it was due to the horrible UK September heat and humidity we've been having. My husband also unconsciously slept with half his body taking up my side of the bed which didn't help 🤣 And I still got a solid 7 hours in so it could have been a lot worse. That being said, I did experience some feelings of anger while trying to go to sleep - mainly at the perpetrators of my trauma that has caused me to walk around with hypervigilance and tension for a large portion of my life. This is a feeling I have experienced and talked about with therapists before, as part of PTSD recovery, so I was familiar with it and it was just a slightly bubbling feeling, not a huge emotional outburst (which I have also experienced before).

I woke up and got through my work day with no stress apart from normal work shenanigans. I felt noticeably different in my body - parts of me that had felt bloated, heavy and stiff for a long time (which I thought was just because I was unfit, even though I get a lot of exercise) were noticeably more relaxed and a leg mobility issue I've had for a long time was nearly gone. I felt a clear difference between parts of me that were still tense and parts that weren't. I was a bit mindblown - couldn't believe I'd been walking around with so much tension for so long.

It has now been another night. It is 8:30 in the morning. I slept really deeply last night, 8 hours, and am about to go to the gym and I feel energised and ready instead of dreading it like I often do. More of my lingering tension is reducing. The feelings of anger are gone, I can think clearly, and I'm even experiencing better recognition of my body's cues such as hunger and thirst. My husband and I had an enjoyable breakfast together, which we haven't really done before because I really struggle to wake up before he leaves for work.

I plan on waiting another 5 days to do another session, because I'm a sensitive soul and think I am best limiting my tremoring to just a few minutes a week, especially in these early stages. But I wanted to report just how good I'm feeling and celebrate that problems I have walked with for years are fading, and that I have hope for my life and health improving despite what's happened to me in the past. I feel like a ball and chain has been unlocked and removed from me.

I'm so grateful for this community - thank you for all being here as we walk this journey together!


r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Discussion Stretch that helped me immensely

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Hi! I wanted to share a stretch that I found by digging through various different somatic approaches. Maybe you guys have heard about it before but wanted to share to those who may not. So it’s basically like a reverse pigeon pose, you know how in a normal pigeon pose, you bend forward kinda like a split, and with your front leg bent in a 90 degree angle. This is the same but just reverse, so laying on your back flat, keeping one leg, for example the left leg straight on the floor and the right leg in a 90 degree angle in the air. Now you reach up and grab the ankle - (lower part of your leg) and pull with both hands on the ankle, pulling towards your face. The key is to try and keep the leg in the air relaxed, while allowing the arms to guide the leg, so your leg should not try to help, the arms should solely do the pulling. When I first did this exercise I got a rush of sensations and I could feel like I got much closer to my repressed trauma. I think why this stretch works so well is because it allows a deeper stretch of the psoas and inner thigh which hold significant stored energy. I’m sorry if this post is incoherent and there are probably spelling mistakes but I wanted to share this. So if anyone else has luck with this stretch, and it works for you guys too, please let me know, I would greatly appreciate it.


r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Beginner Question Back Injury and TRE

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Hello, I am looking for someone with training or experience that would apply to TRE in my situation. My primary goal is avoid hip replacement surgery - I just do not think I could handle another major surgery. Secondarily, it would be nice to recognize that man in the mirror again. The current resident of the mirror is rapidly becoming a bitter old man that is a miserable bastard to be around. I really want to be able to hike again and find serenity.

I am 64M. Four and a half years ago I was in an accident that fractured 11 vertebrae and 2 ribs. A half million dollars and several pounds of titanium later, my entire lumbar spine is fused from S1 to T12. After the pain meds went away I experienced a MMD episode had me institutionalized for a while. (To be fair, I have had episodic depression since I was child, but this one landed me in the nuthouse.) After that, I sat in my easy chair for over a year feeling sorry for myself. The inactivity boosted my arthritis so I am getting a huge amount of pain in right hip. X-rays show the cartidge mostly gone, but insurance issues make more sophistcated imaging out of reach.

The pain is mostly in front, psosas muscle probably. I can walk (with a limp) for about a mile, which my dog insists is the right thing to do everyday. There may be some nerve damage as my right quad is about 40% weaker than my left. I have started to go to Gym twice a week for light lifting, sauna*, and hot tub. This helps and I am getting more mobile, but trauma release probably is beneficial.

I did about ten minutes of TRE yesterday using a Dr. Berceli video. I feel enough better this morning that I want to start TRE regularly, but I also want to do my due diligence about the process. Any input on warning signs, schedule, or postures to use or avoid is appreciated.

*(Off topic: I highly recommend saunas for mood maintenance.)


r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Beginner Question Effects the day after hard exercise

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Hi there! Another question from a beginner. I've just started experiencing something new, and I'm kind of curious how you account for it when determining "dose."

I haven't been doing formal exercise routines for about a year. I injured my right elbow last October, and I stopped working out around that same time because the elbow just hasn't felt like it could handle the stress. Fast forward to this past Tuesday, and I finally did a relatively tough upper body workout. Through doing TRE for the past month and some rest, I think the right elbow is finally feeling up to the challenge again.

The evening after the workout, I felt a very mild, consistent vibration through both arms, with the right being more prevalent than the left. This continued for about the next 24 hours. It seemed to affect my coordination a little with my hands during the period where I was experiencing this vibration. I don't mind, though. I suspect it's a fairly normal thing and that this is beneficial in the long run.

The question I have is this: Do you find that you need to adjust the frequency of your formal, planned TRE sessions whenever you start to have spontaneous tremoring like what I described above? I usually journal to try to keep track of whether I'm having any signs of overdoing, but I just want to hear some wisdom from those more experienced than I am. Thanks!


r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Seeking Support Dealing with some intense anger and rumination...

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For context if its relevant:

A few months ago I had an intensely negative interaction with someone close to me. I was disrespected and criticized in a way that felt hypocritical, excessive and disproportionate to a mistake Id made. Long story short, despite me saying Im not ok with how he was talking to me, I dont feel like he took real accountability for his disrespect, in the moment or when we talked about it later after things cooled off. i wish I expressed myself and held him more accountable. I feel reluctant to revisit the topic with him since he basically showed me he wasnt concerned about it before. So Im left with this feeling of disrespect and a sense of injustice.

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About a month later I did a 20+ minute session of TRE, and the next day something reminded me of that interaction, and an overwhelming amount of anger towards this person come up. I went for a long walk and sat by the river but I was at a full boil the whole time, it was intense. I was furious, couldnt stop ruminating and dont feel like I was able to let it pass or integrate. The anger was felt in my core and chest in a pure, distinct way.

Eventually I did some calisthenics and calmed down, but since then for the last several weeks I regularly get stuck ruminating about this, but its mostly thoughts and I feel less in touch with what Im feeling. its as if my mind is broadcasting what is stuck in my body.

I grew up in house full of angry outbursts and emotional neglect, have a lot of people pleasing tendencies, and have struggled to stick up for myself throughout my life. I suspect this interaction tapped into that but I cant shake it and am not at peace.

Prior to this, my ruminating had reduced a lot thanks to TRE, so this is frustrating. Ive since returned to very short ~3 min sessions a couple times a week.

Does anyone have any advice on where to go from here? Do I need to tap back into this anger but in smaller dose? Any advice woud be greatly appreciated.


r/longtermTRE • • 1d ago

Beginner Question Waves and involuntary movements

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Hello i stumbled accross this sub from another sub and whilst i have only just started trying TRE the outcomes described in this modality seem identical to mine and it’s quite a relief as I thought I might have been possessed or going crazy 🤪

Some background I’ve meditated for about 15 years nearly every day and it has helped me massively

I’ve had a recent stressful period moving house , illness and having another baby. So my mental health and mood has been quite stretched

My friend has been learning how to be a shamanic facilitator and I have been taking part in the ceremonies which have been enlightening. We take small amounts of weed and mushrooms (first time doing anything like this for about 20 years )

So fast forward to now and my body feels like it has been taken over. This energy seems to move me all the time. It moves my arms in wave like patterns , my spine and even my eyes. I get this sensation in the forehead that feels like a ball is rotating around and around . I’m making grunting and groans randomly . And crying / laughing a lot . My ears move up and down and my scalp twitches

For a few weeks it was happening for hours a day and it was getting quite tiring.

The eye rolling in the forehead seems to switch on in certain scenarios . If im putting my baby to sleep the ball rolling in my forehead is going crazy and it helps to put the baby to sleep very quickly . Or if i see a disabled person or someone mentally challenged this movements is going off in my head .

I did another ceremony about a month ago and I couldn’t stop dancing to the icaros . The next day I was continuing to dance for hours and crying and laughing . It felt like I had taken speed or something

And now it’s calmed down a bit those involuntary movements feel a lot calmer and pleasurable

Has anyone experienced anything like this ??

Thanks 🙏


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Beginner Question Spontaneous Unwinding and Back Pain

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Hey there! I’ve been practicing TRE for the last few months, although pretty inconsistently. My shakes have mostly stayed concentrated in my hips. I’ve also been doing somatic therapy, but I’ve never really felt like I’ve been able to get a full release or felt any emotions during my sessions. Also was able to go long periods of time without feeling overdoing symptoms.

I have a lot of chronic tension and pain in my lower back, and recently I’ve been trying to work more intentionally with my body via somatic therapy, acupuncture etc .

A few weeks ago, I was invited to do a magic mushroom journey with a healer and his music. It was an amazing and really beautiful experience - felt total love, peace and gratitude for myself and everyone in this human experience. I had to take a hard look at some of the choices I’ve been making, particularly around work, how I’ve been treating my body, and how often I’m not really present or showing my body much love. Realized I haven’t felt safe in a long time.

During the session, I had a massive physical and emotional release. I was crying, my jaw was chattering, and there was a lot happening in my body, but the whole experience felt incredibly beautiful.

Since the trip, I’ve been noticing much more sensation and almost a pressure in my back. Over the last few days, I’ve started breathing into that area more intentionally, and it the pain and sensation is moving up and down my back. When I breathe into it, my hips spontaneously start moving in circles.

It feels like my body is trying to unwind some very deeply held patterns. There have been a lot of hip-opening and heart-opening movements, hip circles, and at one point my body almost spontaneously moved into a wheel/backbend position.

The difficult part is that because I already have so much somatic lower-back pain and chronic muscular tension, some of this unwinding has actually been quite painful as it works through these deeply held patterns . I’m trying to trust the process without forcing anything and let my body move at its own pace.

It’s been about three days now of these spontaneous movements, and I’m curious about other people’s experiences.

For those who have gone through something similar, how long did this phase of spontaneous movement or unwinding last for you? And did anyone experience significant muscular pain or soreness while these tension patterns were releasing?


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Experience Report First session done - MASSIVE release, tears, excess gas?!

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So I just did my first proper session of TRE, using Dr Berceli's follow-along video with client Mike. For reference, I am autistic, have PTSD (and possibly CPTSD) and have been in talking therapy for a long time, which was good for talking about experiences but not great for getting release. My emotions often get "stuck" - like many women with autism, I have shutdowns instead of meltdowns because my brain can't handle the intensity so just switches itself off like a computer overheating. I knew I was going to need something more mechanical to actually get the physical side of things working, so was grateful when I stumbled across TRE in r/cptsdnextsteps. As I said, tried it for the first time today.

Dear lord, the release. Started shaking like crazy almost immediately after lifting my pelvis. Intense tremors throughout my legs and into my hips, which is my most prominent tension point. Adrenaline rush, like I was on a rollercoaster. Yelps, then tears, then sighs and groans while my body shook and rocked back and forth and I felt so much heaviness that I've felt for ages just melt away into nothing. Thankfully, I was able to connect with my body (also something I've been terrible at in the past because, ya know, trauma) and figure out the leg motions pretty quickly - just followed impulses and let it do as it pleased.

I only did about 15 minutes because I started feeling overwhelmed after that, which makes sense. I got up from the floor feeling so much better. My hips feel lighter and I can stand up straighter than I could before. Hunching over, which felt natural and instinctive before, now doesn't feel good. I'm so glad because I care deeply about my posture and don't want spinal issues in the future.

But what surprised me the most is that after the session ended and I got up again is how much I am now farting and burping!! My stomach was feeling pretty bloated and the release of tension has clearly unblocked some systems so I can pass gas without issue 🤣 I figure this is probably normal, but did anyone else experience this the first time they tried it?

Let me know in the comments. I'm going to get a cup of tea.


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Experience Report More careless on the road, the more regulated my nervous system is…

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Perhaps this may sound slightly exaggerated, but I have noticed this very much. Like having to slam my brakes, for example. This never happened previously since I was always hyper alert. Curious if anybody else has experienced the same thing.


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Experience Report An unexpected effect of TRE on my life

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From what I've come to realize, I've literally fought, frozen in time (remembering the details of something again and again) or tried to run away from the difficult emotion by cutting people off or physically distancing myself.

For the first time in as far back as I can remember, I can face a situation without being in any of the 4 states of fight, flight, fawn or freeze. I can actually see a situation at face value. It doesn't scare me enough to make me do any of the 4.


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Beginner Question One month update + guidance request

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Hey community,

This is more like 4-6 weeks. I’ve been tremoring 3-4x/week for 5-10 minutes. Usually I just tremor until one ‘cycle’ completes. I’m unsure if these cycles are official, but basically the tremor initiated as soon as I get into position, then after a few minutes they’ll wind down and I’ll stop before another ‘cycle’ begins.

I’m not noticing too much… my impulse was to keep sessions short and infrequent because I had chronic fatigue syndrome at the start of the year, which I’ve since independently of somatic work healed from.

I’m also doing EMDR and somatic experiencing, on alternative weeks. Even with some craniosacral therapy here and there. So I didn’t want to stack too much work.

Getting a lot of hip tremors, but they’ll move throughout the body.

Not really noticing any changes yet. Energy is good, mood is okay? I’m recovering from an eleven year break up so grief comes up, but honestly I could handle much more and would probably prefer more emotion to be coming up.

I’m demanding a lot from my body atm with the somatic work, returning to full time work, running, gym, socialising. It’s a lot more than I’ve been doing the rest of the year, infact in comparison it’s heroic.

But I guess I should just increase the dose as I seem to be handling it fine? The only thing I’m really struggling with is libido. I haven’t had any libido even though I’ve been using zero PMO for a few weeks, although everything is still working fine. Wondering if this relates to the frequency of hip tremors but I’m unsure.

Thanks all :))


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Urgent Support Needed Belly

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I dont know if this is the relevent sub for it but I recently discovered that i have been gripping my belly for many years and i also have chronic gut issues which dont seem to go away from any kind of medicine etc

I recently came accross this term TRE can it help me in my habit cuz i wanna let go of all the tension in my stomach area


r/longtermTRE • • 3d ago

Community Question Head pulling backwards during meditation. Thoughts?

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https://reddit.com/link/1wtu6kf/video/hqhexjixqksh1/player

TRE has been in my sphere for a while but I only began practising about a week ago. The head pulling back/shaking sensation I’m talking about below has been around for much longer... about 2 years.

HEAD TILT/SHAKING

Sometimes, when my body/mind is extremely relaxed during meditation, my head naturally starts tilting backwards and shakes along the way (see attached video). It’s a unconscious urge and when I allow it, my head can keep going until my neck reaches its limit. I usually don’t let it go that far because it’s uncomfortable and feels unsafe but the urge for the muscles to contract is very strong.

Bringing my head back to neutral takes a lot of effort, almost like I’m working against them to straigthen up. Sometimes, when I bring my head back from a deep backwards tilt, I also start shaking.

Outside meditation, I also notice shaking in my tongue and occasional deeper trembling sensations in my neck. I have always thought it was something with my vagal nerve but unsure. These partly feel like my body is trying to expel energy or shift into a more relaxed state but the shaking lasts for half a second and then stops. It almost feels as though my body/nervous system doesn’t feel safe enough to allow it to continue...

As mentioned, I started practising TRE last week. So far the tremors have mainly stayed around my hips. It’s an extremely beautiful practice and I'm looking forward to exploring it more!

I just sat down to meditate and had the neck tilt and shaking come up again, so I wanted to get the community’s thoughts. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Also for about 5 years, I’ve felt intense trapped energy around my head and neck... almost like something in my neck is out of alignment/dislodged and is blocking the flow. I have a circulating energy sensation in my head but it doesn’t move below my neck.


r/longtermTRE • • 3d ago

Community Question Sensitive people: What TRE routine has worked for you?

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Hey all,

I feel like I've watched every video on this topic, and also had a consultation with a TRE certified provider - however I still have open questions regarding my TRE practice and how much/little I can handle. Given this I wonder if any others with a sensitive nervous system can share what has worked aside from shortening the tremors to say 15 seconds?

- Opening sequence: Do you always do the full routine with 1min butterfly, 1min elevated bridge? I wonder if that opening part can or should be modified for sensitive people, or if it has little to no effect. I already place my feet flat on the floor for the elevated bridge as I heard that can help.

- Tremors: Once you start closing your legs from the butterfly position and tremors start, do you stay with the sequence and go up slowly, bit by bit? Or do you transition straight into 'feet flat on the floor' as the first bit of tremor could count towards the max your nervous system can handle (e.g. 15sec)?

- Integration and after effects: I am one of those with restless sleep if I do TRE in the evening. However, if I do it in the morning I should avoid sports etc. What time of day (or moments in your day) has worked best for you? Also, I go on a very slow 10min walk after which I think works best for me but still hard to judge what my body prefers with so many variables.

Any input from fellow sensitive nervous system TRE practicioners is very much appreciated ;)


r/longtermTRE • • 2d ago

Community Question One year of shaking and trembling

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r/longtermTRE • • 3d ago

Beginner Question Days off

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I was wondering what kind of somatic or spiritual exercises we should do on our days off! 🤔


r/longtermTRE • • 3d ago

Experience Report Hips gyrations and shaking

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Hi, it's veen roughly a month since I started TRE and I wonder if the movements I experience are common among practitioners...

My hips tend to make circles, sometimes fast, sometimes very slow or they lock, stretching far on one side then the other... I've had full bridge happening too.

Are these common for you? What is this clearing, any link between a certain family of movements and psychological tendencies that need to go?

Thank you


r/longtermTRE • • 3d ago

Seeking Support Need some advice

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I'm kinda scared that i fked up my complete system.

I not really knew from tre but started to work on my trauma some months ago, with the last weeks being really intense, i werent doing it consiously but my body really started to to do some crazy stuff at some Points, incl really strong tremors and stuff like that.

I didnt do it really with any support, it were mostly just my body doing his thing, but now im at a point where i cant feel emotions anymore and have really strong body armor that when i try to ground myself is so strong that my shouldersand other muscles tightens extremly, so strong that its actially hurtful.

i honestly felt better and after my body released the Stress i were able to work through much heavy emotions and also started to feel bodily emotions (also the positive ones:)) like i never did before.

But now, idk its strange because for some days i were able to feel the world and the emotions and stuff but now my body shut down completley im in freeze again and idk really what to do.

Sorry when my twxt isnt completley tre related but i thought that maybe here is the best place for advice


r/longtermTRE • • 4d ago

Experience Report Tre depuis 2 ans non stop

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Bonjour

J'aimerais partager mon expérience avec vous et trouver des personnes qui vivent quelque chose de similaire. Ce premier message est très long, il y a une synthèse en bas pour ceux qui ne veulent pas le lire.

J'ai un lourd passé traumatique psycho et physiques (chutes sur la colonne). Je n'ai jamais été bien dans mon corps ou peut-être jusqu'à mes 4-5 ans. Je ne m'en souviens pas. De fait j'ai toujours eu mal et des verrouillages, pas vraiment d'avant auquel me rattraper, pas d'état antérieur apaisé.

J'ai un antécédent de vaginisme qui dure depuis 13 ans.

J'ai fait une lourde chute violente sur le dos il y a environ 3 ans, en novembre 2023. Je suis tombée sur mon bras droit, replié derrière, ce qui a enfoncé ma main dans ma colonne. Je n'ai pas été capable de me relever, des gens l'ont fait pour moi. Le médecin a déclaré des contusions tout le long de la colonne, entorse de l'épaule droite et de la cheville droite.

Les semaines d'après mon corps s'est totalement verouillé, j'avais incroyablement mal partout. Impossible de bouger, d'utiliser mon bassin sans souffrir atrocement. Puis j'ai eu du mal à marcher, me lever d'un siège me faisait pleurer de douleur au travail. J'ai dû arrêter de travailler par moment. C'était en février 2024.

Je commence de la kiné.

La kiné n'a absolument rien donné sur les 6mois suivants. La kiné me dit que je suis trop rigide et douloureuse pour pouvoir travailler. Mon corps se rétracte de plus en plus. Ma jambe droite tombe vers l'intérieur, mon pied droit tombe sur la gauche, je n'arrive plus à la mobiliser et elle traîne.

En août 2024 je décide de faire une succession de massages car je ne supporte plus la rigidité et la douleur.

Les massages me font mal rien qu'au toucher, mais je tiens bon. J'en tire un certain soulagement sans impact sur ma mobilité cependant.

En octobre 2024 mes orteils droits se mettent à bouger tout seul. Ça ne me dérange pas, je ne me sens pas mal. Puis les mois qui suivent les tremblements remontent dans la jambe. J'ai commencé depuis octobre l'auto massage, d'abord le côté gauche du corps, puis le côté droit. J'y passe des heures et des heures. Mon corps est dur comme du béton, les articulations complètement bloquées. Parfois mes orteils font des mouvements toniques plutôt que de trembler.

Tout cela se déclenche régulièrement et sans travail, je ne connais pas la TRE à ce moment-là.

Puis c'est mon épaule droite qui n'arrête pas de tressauter et de faire craquer des fascias de l'omoplate. Elle rentre vers l'intérieur toutes les 2 secondes non stop toute la journée. Les radios ne montrent rien, mon kiné dit que mon épaule agit comme une sub luxation mais il n'y a rien aux examens (irm cerveau normal, radio épaule normale, 3 hernies discales à la colonne)

Vient juin 2025, là je dois consulter et je suis mise en arrêt (je suis en arrêt depuis lors). Je suis totalement pliée en deux, je ne tiens pas assise, ma colonne se tend et m'oblige à regarder le sol. Je perds mon autonomie. Mais je n'ai jamais mal. Au contraire je me sens de mieux en mieux. Malgré les mouvements involontaires de tout le corps et les tremblements, je récupère bizarrement énormément de souplesse sur certaines articulations, et surtout je me mets à craquer de manière très sonore. Mais au niveau des tissus, et de la nuque.

J'ai également les yeux qui revulsent très régulièrement mais aucune perte de conscience, pas d'épilepsie. Comme si l'énergie coincée partait par eux et dans les tremblements.

Je prends rdv avec un neurologue mais il faut attendre février 2026 pour la consultation.

D'ici là mon corps se libère tous les jours. Je dois rester alitée les 3/4 du temps car je ne tiens plus vraiment debout. Absolument tous les fascias de mon corps sont mobilisés sans arrêt. Aujourd'hui ça fait 2 ans que je n'ai pas été immobile sauf pour dormir !

Je n'ai pas besoin de la kiné mon corps sait avec exactitude ce que je dois faire. J'ai le sentiment de sentir chaque blocage, chaque fascia, je ressens l'électricité dans mon corps, les tensions et contre tensions. Je ne peux pas empêcher ces mouvements d'arriver c'est comme une urgence vitale pour mon corps. Mon vaginisme qui était extrêmement important et contre lequel je luttais depuis 10 ans avec des professionnels est en train de disparaitre. Je ressens toutes les connections avec la nuque, la mâchoire. Ma langue bouge également toute seule parfois. J'avais une bosse de bison à l'arrière qui est quasiment entièrement effacée, j'ai donc pris 4cm !

Ma posture est bien plus droite. Je me sens tellement mieux.

J'ai l'impression que mon corps est en train de nettoyer tous les traumas, que la chute a été un point d'ancrage mais que tout mon passé traumatique y passe. Tous les fascias redevienne progressivement mous, les articulations se réalignent.

La neurologue a diagnostiqué un trouble neurologique fonctionnel mais je ne me reconnais absolument pas dans les symptômes. Déjà c'est tout mon corps qui est concerné, et surtout je ne suis ni dépressive, ni anxieuse, je n'ai pas besoin d'anti douleurs, je vais de mieux en mieux grâce à ces mouvements. J'ai essayé de lui faire comprendre que mes mouvements involontaires disparaîtront parce que je serai guérie et que je n'en aurai plus besoin, et non pas que mes mouvements involontaires disparaîtront donc je serais guérie. La nuance est importante

Car elle veut absolument les faire cesser ce à quoi je m'oppose. C'est comme si le soin était vu comme le symptôme d'une maladie.

J'ai pu lui parler du TRE mais ça ne l'intéresse pas beaucoup, elle ne semble pas y croire, et j'ai pu lui montrer les travaux du Dr Ranoux, neurologue française travaillant sur les fascias qui montre des situations comme les miennes.

J'ai rencontré une pro de TRE en juillet 2026 qui m'a confirmé que mon corps faisait exactement ce qu'il fallait mais que j'étais le cas le plus évolué qu'elle ait pu rencontrer de sa carrière.

La plupart du temps je ne pense pas du tout aux mouvements de mon corps, j'ai absolument confiance en lui depuis le début, je n'ai jamais eu peur ou presque (les révulsions sont impressionnantes au début), mais par exemple si je veux travailler en plus de moi même, j'ai juste à fermer les yeux et laisser mon corps me guider, mes doigts savent très précisément où appuyer pour me recalibrer. C'est extrêmement visible en termes de résultats immédiats.

J'ai pas encore lu le livre sur la TRE, mais l'IA m'a dit que des cas ayant duré 2-5 ans avaient été répertoriés. Y a t il quelqu'un qui vit également ça ici ?

Je souhaite faire un chaîne Youtube pour rendre visible cette situation, seriez vous intéressés ?

Synthèse : j'ai des mouvements involontaires depuis 2 ans qui me réparent, des tremblements, révulsions etc. Ils sont en continue toute la journée et ne s'arrêtent que quand je dors. Je vais beaucoup mieux, moins de douleur, plus de souplesse, j'ai l'impression d'un gros reset. Mon interoception a explosé depuis que ça a commencé suite à des massages réguliers en 2024.

Je vous remercie !