TBR 3 step rewind is a brief relaxation intervention, allowing the sirens in your brain to switch off from the confusion, panic and fear that you may still be feeling after some traumatic event in your pregnancy life.

This may have occurred during your antenatal period, birthing time, postnatal period or during any feeding difficulties. It may be associated with having an ill baby or a baby loss within any of that time or in the first year postnatally, known as the Perinatal time.
The trauma may have been physical following a birth injury to you or your baby or it may have been emotional – it does not need to be big trauma that is recognised by hospital staff or PTSD pathways. If it makes you brood about it, unresolved after a few weeks and it is affecting any of your daily functions or sleep – then that is trauma and can easily be lifted by this technique.

The relaxation skills used are your own – the ability to relax the “fright, flight and freeze” centres of the brain are generally well accessed by most people. The alarm system in the brain (amygdala) is constantly alerting us, to try and protect us from previous recognised trauma (held in short-term memory in the hippocampus), however small that might have been – and we only have to think about that event or injury and it throws us right back to where, when, how it happened and who was there!

Our rational frontal cortex of the brain keeps trying to tell the amygdala that this is no longer a risk but the alarms are ringing so loud that the messages cannot get through and panic repeats itself. One of the known ways to manage this pathway of distress between the amygdala and hippocampus is to deeply relax, with guidance and deciding what portion you wish to work on and how you would like this to look and feel if you knew you could lift this heavy weight. This deep relaxation breaks the trauma pathway and allows new, healthier messages to be heard and stored in the long term memory. This lifts the heavy symptoms of trauma that can destroy bonding, feeding, parenting, relationships and future pregnancies.

By getting to a relaxed state in our mind, the constant chain of response which links our alarm system in the brain (amygdala) to our short-term memory (hippocampus) – is finally broken and allows our rational brain (frontal cortex) to appreciate some calm once again – relegating the “old” to long-term memory storage (cortex integration) and no further need for the alarm to keep going off.

Rewind does not remove the event from the book of your life ……you keep your story but not the bodily symptoms that have created anxiety, palpitations, sleeplessness, anger, guilt, shame, loneliness, sadness, exhaustion, fear, panic, jealousy, lack of motivation.