Brigitte Peel TRE

17/12/2025

16/12/2025

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Advent of Words to live by… ✨

Every day in December I will be posting an advent-calendar-style message you need to hear.

I love a good advent calendar and these days we have chocolate advent calendars, cosmetics coffee, you name it.

I will be bringing you little parcels of comfort, hope, or just a perspective shift to move you out of overwhelmed and back into calm and peaceful.
Or at the very least, grateful: Because the state of gratitude is a powerful thing.

I will also be suggesting a journalling prompt you can carry out to help yourself or a small act of kindness to add to the ripple effect that keeps the whole world facing the light.

(This may seem like a task (and you have more than enough of those) but this will return the energy to you ten-fold in power 🤩.)

It is not easy, this life, even when it is wonderful. We need one another. And we need reminders of the fact that we are not alone, never, ever alone.

This community is a kind one.

What a thing.

Today… give yourself a treat of some kind - be that space from guilt and criticism in your thoughts or an hour of you-time doing whatever fuels your soul.

You are worthy.

(All of the words on my advent windows will be from ‘Joy Chose You’ or my journal ‘Words To Live By’)

Donna

11/12/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RRCUEKz7Q

This video explains the necessity of a metamorphosis of the human person after traumatic events. This is essential to shift the trauma from disillusionment t...

23/10/2025

New Research – TRE® Significantly Reduces Trauma Symptoms in Refugees
https://oppmerksombevegelse.no/tre-significantly-reduces-trauma-symptoms-new-study/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNnKhBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFOeTAxejBmdHlIMkZCMlJYAR6mfb2zn9jFEAADtGj1Vv96c-IN3Hyu-Orq-ad2-gMy49qDb-XYk2gOVNvN3A_aem_JDGFZJesGGicvNRdctEOAw

A 2024 peer-reviewed study showed a 33% reduction in trauma symptom severity and a 64% increase in the number of symptoms that disappeared completely among East African refugee women who practiced Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) over an eight-week period. Participants also reported im...

10/10/2025

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-to-heal-from-trauma-physically-and-mentally-from-md-talk-therapy?fbclid=IwY2xjawNWG89leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqvqboGeuzl7iOp0Zvqvqqlj1tCKNli-XW8SfhmSJrj9ExpwVSetCzuSGqqu_aem_Jjp7HhtI46GIFhEn_ljdnA

What it takes to actually heal from trauma—mentally and physically.

18/09/2025

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/the-truth-my-body-knew-before-my-mind-did/?fbclid=IwY2xjawM4p5VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqyxDqTRymeokf6kRKFX2sCESkwBpE1ERZuSARbCebSeqq0GSqj74YHR3K3i_aem_Nm_FzCFhVcK_QQs_r7ucmw

Sometimes, your body knows the truth before your mind can explain it. And sometimes, your body responds to fear that’s not even yours.

19/08/2025

“No two children grow up in the same home. Even with the same parents.”
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I heard something today that felt like someone quietly rearranged the furniture in my soul.

Gabor Maté, in a conversation with Mel Robbins on her podcast, said:
“No two children grow up in the same home. Even with the same parents.”

And he’s right.
By the time each child is born, the people raising them have already changed.
A father may be softer now, or more guarded.
A mother may be freer, or more worn.
The marriage may be blooming… or quietly cracking.
Money might be scarce, or finally enough to breathe.

And then there’s *us*—the children.
We come with different hearts, different fears, different ways of hearing the same words.
One child feels loved in the quiet; another feels abandoned in it.
One thrives under structure; another wilts.
The same hug, the same house, the same parents—yet completely different worlds.

It made me think about the stories we carry.
How we assume we all lived the same childhood because we shared a roof.
But we didn’t.

We were each raised by a different version of our parents… a version shaped by time, by trials, by joy, by fatigue.

And maybe part of growing up - truly growing up - is making peace with this.
To forgive the versions of our parents who couldn’t give more.
To honor the versions who somehow gave anyway.
And to understand that the love was real, even when it looked nothing alike.

Because love isn’t static.
It’s a living thing—changing, faltering, blooming—just like the people who give it.

24/07/2025

In this episode, Dr. Victoria Maizes and Dr. Andrew Weil explore the revolutionary work of Dr. David Berceli, creator of Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE).

In this episode, Dr. Victoria Maizes and Dr. Andrew Weil explore the revolutionary work of Dr. David Berceli, creator of Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercis...