Improving Your Relationship with Emotions, Body Sensations, and Aspects of Self

Abstract Trauma can dramatically change the range of emotions and physical sensations that feel comfortable or manageable. People who have experienced trauma often feel too much or too little emotion and body sensations. Traumatic experiences can lead people to believe that certain feelings are not OK—or that no emotions are OK. This can lead people to not want their emotions and body sensations and to be afraid of emotions and sensations. In addition, they may never have learned how to have a healthy relationship with their emotions, body sensations, or themselves as a person. At the same time, it is difficult to get and feel safer without a healthy relationship with your emotions, body, and all of who you are. This module will help you work toward manageably developing healthy relationships with these aspects of your experience. This will gradually help you get and feel safer.