Integrating a visual connection with one's younger self can help in recognizing and responding to internal feelings of alarm.

“I think having that physical photo is really really really going to help Dr Kennedy uh hold that thought and then we're going to continue this it's going to be part two of this”

The most effective way to recover from trauma is through structured writing and meditation techniques that bypass neurological triggers rather than traditional talk therapy.

“What had happened to me was I was sort of holding it together pretty well as a person who overfunctioned as a coping coping mechanism. I looked good. I had a job, you know, I was pretty. But my ability to connect with people was getting frayed. And I will just say this, when you're 21 and a pretty g”