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Say to yourself: \"I am having a flashback\". Flashbacks take us into a timeless part of the psyche that feels as helpless, hopeless and surrounded by danger as we were in childhood. The feelings and sensations you are experiencing are past memories that cannot hurt you now.  \n2. Remind yourself: \"I feel afraid, but I am not in danger!\"“I am safe now, here in the present.“  \nRemember you are now in the safety of the present, far from the danger of the past.  \n3. Own your right and need to have boundaries.  \nRemind yourself that you do not have to allow anyone tomistreat you; you are free to leave dangerous situations and protest unfair behavior.  \n4. Speak reassuringly to the Inner Child.  \nThe child needs to know that you love her unconditionallythat she can come to you for comfort and protection when she feels lost and scared.  \n5. Deconstruct eternity thinking.  \nIn childhood, fear and abandonment felt endless-a safer future was unimaginable. Remember the flashback will pass as it has many times before.  \n6. Remind yourself that you are in an adult body You have allies, skills and resources to protect you that you never had as a child.  \nStrategies in times of flashbacks   \n7. Ease back into your body.  \n•  \nGently ask your body to relax:  \nFeel each of your major muscle groups and softly encourage them to relax.  \n(Tight muscles send unnecessary danger signals to the brain. )  \n•  \nBreathe deeply and slowly.(Holding the breath also signals danger).  \n•  \nSlow down.  \n(Rushing presses the psyche's panic button. )  \n•  \nFind a safe place to unwind and soothe yourself. Wrap yourself in a blanket, hold a stuffed animal, lie down in a bath, take a nap.  \n•  \nFeel the fear in your body without reacting to it.  \nFear is just an energy in your body that cannot hurt you if you do not run from it or react self-destructively to it.  \n8. Resist the Inner Critic's Drasticizing and Catastrophizing • Use  \nthought  \n-  \nstopping to halt its endless exaggeration of  \ndanger and constant planning to control the uncontrollable.  \n•  \nRefuse to shame, hate or abandon yourself.  \n•  \nChannel the anger of self-attack into saying NO to unfair self-criticism.  \n• Use  \nthought  \n-  \nsubstitution: replace negative thinking with a  \nmemorized list of your qualities and accomplishments.  \n9. Allow yourself to grieve.  \nFlashbacks are opportunities to release old, unexpressed feelings of fear, hurt, and abandonment, and to validate-and then soothe-the child's past experience of helplessness and hopelessness. Healthy grieving can turn our tears into selfcompassion and our anger into self-protection.  \nStrategies in times of flashbacks   \n10. Cultivate safe relationships and seek support.  \nTake time alone when you need it, but don't let shame isolate you.  Feeling shame doesn't mean you are shameful. Educate your intimates about flashbacks and ask them to help you talk and feel your way through them.  \n11. Learn to identify the triggers that lead to flashbacks. Avoid unsafe people, places, activities and triggering mental processes. Practice preventive maintenance with these steps when triggering situations are unavoidable.  \n12. Figure out what you are flashing back to. Flashbacks are opportunities to discover, validate and heal our wounds from past abuse and abandonment. They also point to our still unmet developmental needs and can provide motivation to get them met.  \n13. Be patient with a slow recovery process.  \nIt takes time in the present to become un-adrenalized, and considerable time in the future to gradually decrease the intensity, duration and frequency of flashbacks.  \nReal recovery is a gradually progressive process [often two steps forward, one step back], not an attained salvation fantasy. Don't beat yourself up for having a flashback  \nAUTHOR:  \nPete Walker, from the book Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving","cbCainrHyIDStah5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainrHyIDStah5","pdf",398453,"English","# Strategies in times of flashbacks\n## Core self-talk and safety in the present\n## Boundaries, inner child reassurance, and fear deconstruction\n## Body-based grounding and emotional regulation\n## Thought stopping and resisting self-criticism\n## Grief, support, triggers, and wound discovery\n## Patience and recovery process","[{\"question\":\"How do the strategies help someone stay safe during a flashback?\",\"answer\":\"They instruct the person to name the flashback, remind themselves they are not in danger, and focus on the safety of the present. 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