![]() ![]() Mindfulness enhances awareness of the present moment, strengthens the ability to self-regulate and increases self-compassion, each of which are important skills for trauma recovery. On the one hand, mindfulness can be an extremely valuable resource for people experiencing traumatic stress. The relationship between mindfulness and traumatic stress, however, is not quite so straightforward. ![]() ![]() Given this, the assumption that anyone experiencing traumatic stress would automatically benefit from practising mindfulness is understandable. While trauma creates stress, mindfulness has been shown to reduce it.” In the words of David Treleaven, an educator and psychotherapist whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma and mindfulness “placed beside one another, mindfulness and trauma can seem like natural, even inevitable, allies. ![]()
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