releasing trauma from your body; helping parents restore their health through trauma release exercise, with Ericka Thomas
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Guest: Ericka Thomas, owner of Elemental Kinetics and podcast host of The Work IN podcast
Show Resources:
Dr. David Berceli’s website and book
Show Notes:
SPEAKERS
Brenda Zane, Ericka Thomas
Episode topics:
trauma in our bodies, trauma release, tremor exercise, yoga, stress, trauma release practice, tension, nervous system, polyvagal theory, parents, PTSD, TRE
02:34
Welcome to the conversation with Erika Thomas of Elemental Kinetics.
Erica's work focuses on trauma release exercise, or TRE. It's a sequence of simple modifiable exercises that work from the ground up to open pathways to your own natural tremor mechanism.
05:53
Brenda’s personal experience with trauma during her son’s years in addiction
06:35
Ericka discusses her career path and how she arrived at TRE and yoga
11:03
What is TRE, Ericka’s personal experience with trauma
14:13
How should we be thinking about trauma?
Discussion of “big T” and “little T” trauma
21:33
Deeper discussion of what TRE, how it was developed
Difference between animals, children and adults in how we process trauma
What is the tremor mechanism?
Talking about the nervous system, adrenalin and cortisol, and epinephrine
26:14
The role of exercise
The impact of trauma and stress on the stomach
The polyvagal theory
Flight, fight, freeze, fawn response to stress
The tremor mechanism and your body’s fascia and tissues (neurogenic tremor)
Safe downregulation of the nervous system
31:07
Is TRE exercise or a workout type, theory or therapy?
Things you may notice in your body when you practice TRE
Ericka discusses working with athletes
What happens when your body stores stress
36:50
How do you practice TRE
Dr. David Berceli’s book
Working with a practitioner and working independently
TRE like a deep tissue massage from the inside of the body
How often you need to practice
43:35
Results people experience from practicing TRE
Pairing TRE with other exercises like yoga
48:47
How to know if you’re storing trauma in your body
Sleep deprivation, irritability, anxiety, appetite, gut health, tension
Tapping into the vagus nerve, brainstem
Healing at a primal level
58:27
Working with Ericka
Brenda
Thank you so much for listening. If you like to go to the show notes, you can always find those at BrendaZane.com/podcast. Each episode is listed there with all of the resources that we mentioned, as well as a place to leave comments if you would like to do that.
You might also want to download my free ebook called HINDSIGHT: Three Things I Wish I Knew When My Son Was Addicted To Drugs. It is packed with information that I truly wish I had known back in the darker years with my son. And so I share it now in case it might be helpful to you in your journey. You can get that at Brendazane.com/hindsight, and I will put a link to both of these resources in the show notes as well. Thank you so much for listening. I'll meet you right back here next week.