How to Cope With Stress and Trauma

Carrying around or having a little bottle of essential oils or like a strong smell something that is invigorating and relaxing for you can help especially in moments of dissociation or panic attack. People have success with splashing their face with cold water or even dipping their face in like a bucket of ice water which helps regulate the nervous system. With somatic experiencing there's the idea of shaking and moving to release trauma and I don't remember if I've talked about this before but Peter Levine he wrote uh waking the tiger healing trauma has a lot of work on somatic experiencing and trauma. Another thing that I've heard people talk about that I really like is the idea of co-