My teenage daughter started having body memories surface and she'll only talk to me when she's having them but expects me to somehow know how to hold space for something I don't understand while my own childhood stuff gets activated.
More people experience this than they realize.
A parent is trying to provide somatic support for their child's trauma while managing their own activated nervous system and lack of training.
“Where Are You with Trauma in the body — somatic approaches?”
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