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View submission: Monthly Progress Thread - February '25
27 months
In response to the poll - I wish there was a “nuance” answer haha. When I first started TRE, I had lots of side effects. I would sometimes get insomnia, felt like I was constantly coming down with a cold, had chills all the time. I would say moderate side effects. Now I occasionally get chills or feel more hungry but not regularly, so I would say it’s mild now. But there has been a great change in this over time in terms of that.
Otherwise, I feel like a gamechanger for me is dealing with my anger. Another user here recommended these somatic anger exercises to me and holy crap, it takes nothing for the anger to come out. It’s like this chronic tension I’ve been having for years is actually just my repressed anger, this whole time, and it’s just been sitting there under the surface for so long. I have not been doing them for very long but I already feel significant improvement! Now that I have done a significant amount of processing my sadness, I have so much anger left. And I’m sure there is more sadness under that anger, but we’ll get there. It was only suggested to me to start allowing myself to access my anger in November last year, two years into my TRE journey. I pretty strongly feel this is the next layer of release I deeply needed.
In terms of other improvements I’ve noticed pretty significant improvement in brain fog. I continue to feel better and better in my body.
I am currently doing 5-15 minutes of somatic anger release followed by 5-15 minutes of TRE at night followed by ~30 minutes of meditation. After the anger release and TRE I feel so relaxed. I never felt relaxed after TRE until I started doing the anger exercise. And I’m not always deep meditating, a lot of time is spent processing what comes up from my subconscious that needs to be processed. To be honest I cannot recommend meditation or some sort of processing enough. I felt like before I started taking time to process I was like a pressure cooker. I feel sooo much better now over the last six months since I started this practice. I feel like TRE, for me personally at least, “shakes up” what’s held within but I still have to go back in and properly process it. In a way it feels a lot like EMDR, I feel like I am sort of combining the two but it’s been working very well.
Comment by DetectiveHarley at 03/02/2025 at 03:03 UTC
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What are the somatic anger exercises that you do?
Comment by throwaway_627_ at 06/02/2025 at 06:51 UTC
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I am currently doing 5-15 minutes of somatic anger release followed by 5-15 minutes of TRE at night followed by ~30 minutes of meditation. After the anger release and TRE I feel so relaxed. I never felt relaxed after TRE until I started doing the anger exercise
How often are you doing this? Every day?
Comment by Least_Addition2740 at 06/02/2025 at 12:30 UTC
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Can you give more details about the way you use meditation as a process step? thanks :)