Powerful Exercise For Attachment Trauma 

I felt nothing with this exercise. Some Parents think they can treat you like crap and move on. Then when you question them as an adult they tell you to get over it. They feel guilty but the kid went thru it, the kid doesn’t forget.

For me this felt weirdly comforting. A tad exhausting - maybe I covered too much distance! I found that I kept stopping and resting my head on my arm. I feel a little connected to something. I may try this again. I love sleeping on my tummy which also gives me some comfort. How interesting!

A visual would have helped

For me this is comforting to learn about traumua healing athletics....how the athletics of them.

I felt silly doing this but surprisingly a ton of stuff came up. really cool

Thanks for the information! And thank you for the warning and pointing out the level in which people should be taking this serious. Because it seems silly that something like that could harm you at all.... As somebody who's getting through PTSD symptoms, I had all sorts of things come up. It was really crazy. For some context on the 38-year-old male. And I almost died, and was defibrillated. And I suppose this my nervous system and is what gave me the PTSD. But I don't actually know that yet. Maybe I won't ever know.... But I ended up taking to meditation, ice bath and breath work. And I know for certain that the breath work at one point in combination with the rest really had pushed it. And I wasn't trying to push the trauma out in along. I was trying to kind of let it do its own thing and clear the path for it. So to say. And just let go.. but because of the injury I had sustained, a herniated disc, I would struggle a bit to do my breath work. And it caused me to really accidentally push this along. Basically doing what I think is rebirthing breath work. Well it almost caused some very serious mental issues for me. So I see exactly how bad it can be to bring up trauma if you're not ready for it. I'm not going to go into detail how bad it was for me, but I will say some very crazy things happened. And I was very blessed and lucky too have found wonderful information Just like you are giving out. I would even go as far to say that in my opinion, could manifest your worst diseases... So again, thank you for the information and spreading that awareness.

I imagine this is why I love swimming - when stressed, pulling myself forward through the water feels similar to 'dragging self' to safety. A release after a stressful 'immobilising' event, except it's even easier and more freeing. For me this tummy on floor move was kinda joyful, a slight sense of power. But also I feel my initial nervous system disruption happened so early I couldn't even do this move yet? I'd be interested to know how it compares to sitting up. From somatic work, I found my initial 'escape' was simply being able to sit up, specifically, to be able to stay put with my head up. From there I could actually use my eyes to see what was going on, not just rely on my ears to detect safety while lying down in a cot or similar. I feel like moving *away* came a lot later. As soon as I could get on 2 legs, I ran really far, but clearly missed something, because standing up does not feel reliable when stressed. Grounding down through the legs exercises completely fail for me, like they are still a baby's legs. I have to literally lie down flat on the floor or hard bench to regain safety when dysregulated. I'm really interested in learning more of these developmental capacities and movements. It's hard to find stuff that is based in really very early stages of life. People often imagine a cut off point for what effects babies based on their own perception of possible movements of safety for a child, that generally comes after what affected me. Before moving the whole body there is still other movement/posture impulses - both joyful and protective. Reach out, grasp, yield, or simple sensation from playful free manipulation of hands, limbs etc. Do you have any videos on these? Thanks. Came to your channel from the Reset conference.

I am guessing this would work if you had trauma during this infantile stage of development.

Thank you for the video. Would have loved for this to be effective. Unless there's a delayed reaction, nothing here. It's also physically painful on ribs, back.

These sessions are just so powerful Thanks Dr Aimie. Blessings Betty

This hurts my breastbone. and the only thing that came up was frustration i cant get where i want easier. Also painful on joints and knees.

Yeah agree with previous comments, this isn't v clear.... so we're on the floor just scooching back and forwards on our tummy? And just until we feel a shift?

Excellent video! Very helpful. Thank you.

I tried this exercise and nothing happened. I even put my socks on my hands. The presenter seems so certain things would come up too.

Dr. Aimee, Do you have any exercises for if the attachment trauma occurred ages 5 through 12?

Thank you! I look forward to being able to try this and see what happens! 🙏

so you are basically sliding on the floor pushing yourself with your hands and dragging the legs ? how long and how often?

Yeah....i dont want to laugh out loud or anything so i will die laughing inside.

Please let me know how I can get your courses. I need that. I did many thing but still😢

Is there a name for this exercise?

Hey, I'm wondering where this exercise or work comes from? I'm familiar with developmental kinesiology, but not in the context of psychotherapy

I did it and I kind of just felt like a snake hopefully it helped

This didn't work for me just was a distraction

I guess this isn't going to work with ppl over 65 and problems with their hips or knees.

Great vid Never heard of this one Seeing as that's a super primal motion, super young, I bet this is extremely powerful. Despite there being no "wrong way" aside from crawling, demonstrations would serve better Thank you. I anticipate trying this out, i can appreciate what this taps into. Come from the trauma super Conference Look fwd to finding more of your works!