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May 14 13 tweets 4 min read Read on X
If your nervous system is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze…
No amount of therapy, meditation, or journaling seems to help.

One small comment can still trigger panic, rage, or shut down.

Here’s how to rewire trauma patterns in 7 days—not years (by a PhD psychologist):🧵 Image
Most people think trauma healing takes years of talking about your past.

But what if that’s keeping you stuck in the very state you’re trying to heal?

Because trauma isn’t just stored in your memories.
It’s stored in your nervous system.
When your body perceives a threat—real or imagined—it triggers one of 4 responses:

- Fight
- Flight
- Freeze
- Fawn

This is your nervous system doing its job: keeping you alive.
The problem?

Most of us get stuck there daily, and these are called trauma patterns. Image
Traditional approaches to trauma tell us:

- Think more positively
- Be mindful
- Journal your feelings
- Talk it through again

Yet your body still floods with adrenaline when triggered, despite your best mental efforts.

The missing piece? Your Subconscious Survival Patterns. Image
These patterns are like automatic security systems installed during threatening experiences.

Once activated, they don't turn off, triggering false alarms even in safe situations.

This is why you react instantly before your conscious mind can intervene. Image
I've spent 30+ years studying trauma—both as a psychologist and through my own journey with addiction, loss, and toxic relationships.

What I discovered changed everything: Subconscious rewiring is the key to changing these patterns.

Your body keeps the score, but your body can also rewrite the story.
The key to healing trauma isn't more analysis—it's engaging your body's natural ability to rewire.

This is where the 7-day framework becomes transformative:

Somatic awareness → Nervous system regulation → Pattern interruption → Emotional processing → Neural reconsolidation Image
This isn't basic meditation—it's precisely calibrated to your unique trauma patterns, allowing you to:

• Interrupt fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses mid-activation
• Process emotions without overwhelm
• Build lasting resilience
Body-based practices target the nervous system directly.

We reprogram ourselves to thrive by learning how to rewire subconscious survival patterns.

That's why body-based therapies are so effective. They work on our physiology (hardware) as well as mind (software). Image
After guiding thousands through this 7-day process, I've seen what's possible:

- Triggers that once devastated you barely register
- Relationships transform as old patterns dissolve
- Your authentic self emerges from beneath protective armoring
The problem was never you. It was the approach.

Stop fighting your body. Start working with it.

I've spent decades perfecting these methods that have helped thousands break free from trauma patterns that seemed permanent.
That's why I've created a 7-day system developed from my 30+ years of experience in trauma work.

It’s called Inner Work Mastery, and it gets results fast.

Check it out here: (discount expires soon) offers.drbobbeare.com/inner-work-mas…
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More from @DrBobBeare

May 16
You’re not “easygoing.” You’re not "too nice".

You’re stuck in a trauma loop of people-pleasing and overthinking.

You learned to stay safe by staying small.
Now you can’t tell what you really want.

Here’s the truth—(most therapists won't tell you): 🧵 Image
In my 25+ years as a psychologist, I've learned:

People-pleasing is the compulsive need to prioritize others' comfort over your own needs.

It's not kindness—it's a survival response developed in childhood when your authentic expression was unsafe. Image
The popular understanding frames people-pleasing as a bad habit..."Just say no."

This completely misses what's happening in your body and brain.

People-pleasing and overthinking are survival tactics developed to keep you safe.

They're not bad habits—they're trauma responses. Image
Read 16 tweets
May 15
Why has modern therapy failed so many people?

In the 1950s, Dr. Alexander Lowen made a radical discovery:

The root of emotional pain isn’t in your mind—it’s in your body.

His work flipped psychology upside down and changed how we understand trauma and healing forever 🧵 Image
Before becoming a psychiatrist, Lowen trained as a gymnast and dancer.

He didn’t just study movement—he felt its power.

This deep connection to the body gave him an intuitive understanding most psychologists lacked:

We are our bodies—not just minds with meat suits.
Lowen studied under Wilhelm Reich, a controversial student of Freud.

Reich believed repressed emotion = physical tension.

He called this “armoring.”

Lowen took this further—creating a new field called Bioenergetics, where the body becomes the doorway to emotional healing. Image
Read 19 tweets
May 7
I've been a trauma and addiction specialist for 25 years.

Trauma doesn’t cause addiction.

It’s comforting to think that if we just heal our wounds, the addiction will vanish.

Nope. The truth is complex and far more inconvenient. 🧵 Image
We reach for substances and other self-soothing to numb the pain of trauma.

But using a substance or behavior to cope is not the same as becoming addicted to it.

Most who endure trauma don't become addicts. And most people who use —even heavily—do not become addicts either.
Addiction is not only;
-a psychological disorder
-a chemical imbalance
-a behavioral issue.

It’s a spiritual illness—a profound loss of connection and meaning.

This is why meds and trauma therapy alone don’t heal it.
Read 18 tweets
May 5
Most parenting advice today is upside down.

We’re told not to pick up crying babies. Use timeouts. Be firm and detached.

But Dr. Gabor Maté says, "If you don’t get the first three years right, you’ll be doing damage control for decades."

Here’s why: 🧵 Image
60% of American children under age 5 are in non-parental care for much of the day

Children need attachment to survive.

A child’s brain can’t handle an attachment void.
In hunter-gatherer societies, children were constantly surrounded by caring adults.

But now?

Often, other kids become their emotional anchors.

Their models. Their guides for how to talk, act, and be.
Read 12 tweets
Apr 24
Most therapy focuses on your past.

But one Holocaust survivor changed everything.

Dr. Viktor Frankl endured 3 years in Nazi concentration camps—

And discovered a truth that rewired modern psychology: 🧵 Image
After the war, Frankl developed 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆.

Focused on our primary drive.

𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚

He proved the power of purpose in the worst conditions.
Frankl’s theory emphasizes that those who find meaning in suffering are more likely to survive and thrive.

He didn't just stumble upon it - He survived because of it.

It changed the course of psychotherapy research and practice.
Read 11 tweets
Apr 17
Codependency is not just a quirk of personality - it's an addiction.

Neuroscience has shown how it affects the brain.

Excessive people-pleasing changes our chemistry, and we get addicted to it.

It's serious - here's why: Image
Science has found that the brains of people with codependency have been rewired.

It starts in childhood with distracted parenting, affecting the "mirror neurons" in the brain.

"Attentive parenting leads to becoming autonomous adults." Viladarga, 2012
“Codependents are very hard to treat. I was addicted to the lifestyle and resisted any suggestions. I had to experience enough pain to become willing to change before I would try their suggestions.”
Pia Melody, Facing Codependence
a.co/d/co5MR03Image
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