I was trained by Elaine Miller-Karas in this model whose mission is to bring wellness skills based on cutting edge neuroscience to the world one person at a time. I help my people learn TRM (Trauma Resiliency Model) skills in order to live fully in the present moment and to thrive while managing the activities of daily life. Living a resilient life means that you can handle the stresses of life, you can be annoyed or even angry but do not feel like you will lose your head, and can be sad but not feel like you will be washed away by intensity of your sorrow.
We all don’t live perfectly in the resiliency zone all of the time, however TRM teaches you how to notice when you are starting to experience stress faster and give you ways to ground yourself immediately so you can return to a calm state more quickly.
This takes practice like anything else but some of the skills to practice are:
- Tracking, paying attention to sensations, particularly sensations of distress and sensations of well-being. Learning to differentiate between these two sensations brings awareness and can help you shift to less distressing/painful sensations.
- Resourcing, to help build internal strength and resiliency which reinforces a sense of one’s abilities and capacities.
- Grounding, when one learns to be grounded you can have a sense of self in relationship to present time and space.
- Gesturing, paying attention to spontaneous movement to enhance resiliency, facilitate release and support reprocessing trauma.
- Help Now, strategies to use when stuck in a high or low zone of feelings.
Shift and Stay, if distressing sensations are being experienced bring your attention to a place in the body that feels better.
These are some of the skills that can be taught to help people live more peacefully and comfortable in their own bodies.
