“Nobody can do it for us, but we really can’t do it alone ... “

I learned about TRE 2 weeks before my mom died. I was with her in hospital room while she passed. I felt empowered knowing that I could be with her holding her hand as she took her last breath. I hugged my brother went to the window and opened it. My teeth started to chatter and I started to shiver and cry, then I wailed, I was shaking profusely. Everyone in the room wanted to put a blanket on me or console me. Yet I knew in my mind exactly what was happening, I told people to leave me alone. I shook, cried and wailed for probably 15 minutes. I knew I was done when my body stopped and I felt peaceful. I was then able to hug and thank others and make phone calls to relatives. No one but me understand that I let the trauma release immediately and I had total peace over my moms passing. I use this anytime I experience a perceived trauma and start to shiver, just let it happen. It feels scary the first time, but now I welcome anytime my nervous system is willing to process old or current shocking experiences.

I spent 30 years treating people in mental health and learned this lesson, simple as it sounds. For a good many folks, being present with them is powerfully healing and, in that, they'll often find the answers and make the changes they need. Many people have a natural inclination to heal, and will do so when given a heart-to-heart witness and encouragement or permission, maybe a suggestion here or there, from someone they put their trust in.

I worked Prison ER 20 yrs

Real Deal Dr. Levine- full.of warmth Compassion & integrity..humble "Wounded Healer"..Big Respect..🙏🧡

This is exactly why if you have to go hospital, take an advocate with you that can stand up for you when you can’t.

Oh god his energy his warm presence, I can listen to him for hours.

6 years later this is helping me achieve the next level of my healthy mental and spiritual health. Thank you for sharing. Lots of love from Jamaica 🇯🇲

The power of compassion!

i read the book - he is genius.

this man is unconditional love

I took ayahuasca to help me process my childhood trauma and had a similar body experience. I felt so alone that I asked for help in the form of a woman to sit by me and hold my hand. I’m defiantly independent in my normal life. Then waves of intense full body shaking, exhaustion, tears, shaking, exhaustion, tears in cycles for about an hour. It really helped me let go of so much grief. The fact that two completely different medicines point towards the same technique tells me that it’s the correct answer

What’s really profound to me in this video, aside from Peter’s honesty, and amazing description of what he went through, is that it wasn’t a partner, child or best friend, but a total stranger holding his hand that enabled him to process this in a healing way. We are truly all connected in a fundamental, primal way.

I highly recommend have enough money to take care of your basic needs. That goes a long way. (No one mentions that so I thought I would.)

Just love his gentle honesty, so thankful for you sharing his experience

I work as a energy healer, after trauma and my dark night of the soul, I too release emotions and trauma through shaking. I teach this to my students, it can be your hands moving, your stomach tensing, your whole body shaking for 30 minutes and hour, then the process stops and you become lighter..... this is the new way to work. It works over distance as well, I have just as profound healings through my distance healing as I do with in person or group work.. MIND BODY AND SPIRIT...

Thank you for the post!

What happens when we choose bad listeners, who later deny your experience?

Thank you for sharing this experience! I still suffer from a TBI suffered from a rear end wreck in February of 2014. Changed by life forever. So hard. Friends and family still don’t understand.

EMDR is a great tool to process trauma.