Healing From Your Break-Up – Lesson 1.2 – Understanding What Happens Physically

Welcome to Lesson #2 of the Healing From Your Break-Up course!

Not only do your emotions from similar past wounds combine with your most recent hurt, your body has chemical reactions that make releasing the past difficult. Your emotions trigger parts of your brain and the body’s stress response increasing the difficulty.

This lesson is to show you that your emotional pain has a physical cause, and difficulty releasing it isn’t a weakness of character.

Your Brain Reacts Immediately

When you discover you’ve been betrayed, rejected, or your loved one is gone, your brain and body react immediately.

Your brain activates a series of physical responses resulting in chemical production that affects your thoughts and feelings:

1. Your limbic or emotional brain reacts to your emotional pain or trauma. This activates the stress response producing fear and anxiety.
2. Extreme emotional trauma can result in PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). PTSD can make changes to the brain that can be long-lasting. The result is extreme emotional sensitivity affecting relationships with others, yourself, and your environment.
3. Your prefrontal cortex, the thinking part of your brain, is stressed. This makes it difficult to think clearly and may cause problems with your memory.

Emotional Pain Triggers Your Stress Response

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