I have two kids (4M, 2M) and while I love them to death, they put my nervous system to constant stress. Lately, I’ve been wondering how TRE should be done by young parents. I don’t think that the challenges of raising little kids provide a safe environment for doing integration work between TRE sessions.
Background: I’ve been doing TRE for 6 months. I do 8 minutes 3 times a week. I started with 15 minutes but I soon realized that I was having overdoing symptoms so I reduced session duration. I think I still am struggling with finding the right pace.
I also think I might be coming out of functional freeze. At least, the description of thawing from the wiki fits me quite well. I’m dealing with a lot of suppressed emotion right now (anger maybe?) and I can snap quite fast with my kids.