I started doing Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) a year ago, and the results were powerful. Initially I was doing the exercises with a professional, online, in follow-along fashion. I then started doing the exercises on my own.

In January I started combining the exercises with exposure therapy in the hope of targeting a phobia. The effect was too much. I started experiencing a lot of deep, even extreme fatigue, probably due to resistance coming in from my nervous system.

It's been a learning curve, but it's not something I regret, as it's taught me more about self-pacing with TRE, and titrating trauma and emotional release. I've actually had some great results in reducing anxiety around the phobia.

But I may have actually delayed the healing process by trying to do too much at once.

I'm hoping that I will get back to doing regular TRE soon.

Music from Uppbeat. Intro by Greenhouse. Incidental music by Danijel Zambo, Jeff Kaale and Adi Goldstein.