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My Therapy room. I wanted to create a space that feels warm, safe and old! Hopefully feels a bit like me! 😆 x
25/02/2026

My Therapy room. I wanted to create a space that feels warm, safe and old! Hopefully feels a bit like me! 😆 x

24/02/2026

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That pull away from feeling didn’t appear out of nowhere.It formed early.When rejection felt dangerous.When emotions wer...
23/02/2026

That pull away from feeling didn’t appear out of nowhere.

It formed early.

When rejection felt dangerous.
When emotions were too much.
When pushing through was safer than breaking down.

So a protector stepped in.

It learned to cut off.
To override.
To keep you moving.

And for a long time… it worked.

The problem isn’t the part.

The problem is that your nervous system is still running an old survival script in a life that is now feeling the consequences.

Healing isn’t forcing yourself to feel everything.

It’s helping that protective part experience something new.

Safe enough activation.
Supported emotion.
A different ending in the body.

That’s where memory reconsolidation happens.

Have you noticed this pull in yourself?

22/02/2026

Element 3 in Bruce Ecker’s Memory Reconsolidation model is repetition of the opposite experience.

This is where people often get stuck.
“How can I take in something I don’t believe?”

From a parts lens — of course some parts don’t believe it.
They’re still living inside the old decision.

But there have been moments — even small ones —
where you felt a little proud, a little capable, a little enough.
There have been people who felt different to be around.

And if there truly weren’t?
Neuroscience tells us imagining counts.

Imagine someone in your corner.
Imagine being cheered on.
Notice how that feels in your body.

We’re not arguing with the old belief.
We’re building repetition of the opposite felt sense.

That’s how change consolidates.

Sometimes these parts formed so earlywe don’t even remember becoming this way.A rejection wound.A moment of disconnectio...
21/02/2026

Sometimes these parts formed so early
we don’t even remember becoming this way.

A rejection wound.
A moment of disconnection.
A time belonging didn’t feel secure.

So a protective part stepped in.

It learned to scan.
To anticipate.
To manage the room before the room could manage us.

That part isn’t dramatic.
It’s adaptive.

But in adulthood, constant scanning becomes exhaustion.
Hyper-attunement becomes anxiety.
Protection becomes self-abandonment.

Healing isn’t getting rid of this part.
It’s helping it realise you’re not that small anymore. And we now have choices.

If you’ve ever felt “too sensitive” or “too aware,”
this might be the part that learned early. And it might be time to heal her.





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21/02/2026

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21/02/2026
20/02/2026

I love that you’re bringing Bruce into simple language, Trace. Here’s something that feels very you — grounded, clear, clinical but human:

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In Memory Reconsolidation (Bruce Ecker),
change doesn’t happen just because we revisit the pain.

It happens when the nervous system experiences
something that feels opposite to the original distress.

If a part learned “I’m alone”
it must now feel not-alone.

If it learned “I’m powerless”
it must feel agency.

Not as a thought.
As a sensory experience.

We’re not arguing with the wound.
We’re waking up a part that knows something different —
and letting the body register it.

Both can be true! We are more than one Part! We can hold many feelings at one time. Repost
19/02/2026

Both can be true! We are more than one Part! We can hold many feelings at one time. Repost

18/02/2026

What does the human brain and body need to create real and lasting change? Dr Bruce Ecker’s memory reconsolidation theory helps us to understand this. It has three elements. Element One is : activation. That means that we have to have the right part of us,The part that’s feeling the distress in the driver seat to be able to effect change. Ultimately we need to feel it to heal it. We need to feel it in a way that feels safe enough for our nervous system. Stay tuned for part two.

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