Dual awareness, or, I learned a new psychology term and will write about it

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anxiety, Babette Rothschild, dual awareness, panic attacks, psychology, psychotherapy, PTSD, The Body Remembers, trauma, treatment methods, writing about anxiety, writing about trauma

For survivors of trauma, I’m learning that the ability to practice dual awareness is vital to healing.

Dual awareness, according to trauma specialist Babette Rothschild, refers to the ability “to recognize that I’m feeling upset right now…that I might even be having a flashback, but what’s going on with me right now has to do with something from the past, and I’m aware of where I am in the here and now, which is separate from that memory of the past.”

In other words, it is an acceptance of the past and the present at the same time.