Personal Time Line
In the Healing Room
Module Eighteen - Two Hours
Making a Personal Time Line
Charting your own life experiences, the sequence of events, and the possible relationship of some events to other events can help you develop increased perspective and insight. The goal of this module is to increase self-understanding and self-compassion by having a detailed overview of how you came to be where you are today.
Additionally, issues and events can be identified for processing in your personal therapy.
It is best to take your time and schedule two separate hours for this module, due to the volume of material you will be touching upon. Use the skills you learned in earlier modules to pause and reorient, ground, and resource with meditations, yoga, etc.
Romantic and Intimate Relationships
Personal Milestones and Accomplishments
Failures and Disappointments
Significant Separations and Losses
Accidents, Illnesses, Surgeries
Traumatic Memories
Make a List
Rate It
Post It
Take Your Time/Repeat
Journal and/or Draw What You Discover
Keep scratch paper, writing pads, journals, and/or sketch pads to make drawings and write notes about your Healing Room experience. Take a moment at any time during your Modules, or at the end to do so.
Read On
Feel free to read more in any of the books referenced in your modules. Specific excerpts have been identified for quick reference and easy digestion within modules, but you are welcome to spend more time in these books to expand your knowledge and increase your understanding. Schedule additional time in your Healing Room to use the resources in whatever way makes sense to you.
Alternating Bilateral Stimulation
ABS can be helpful in mindfully processing the material as it comes up in this module.
*Having the ABS playing at a volume loud enough to hear it, but low enough that it seems to fade into the background while you learn these skills, is optimal.
Approved Consultant in IFS & EMDR: individual and group consultation via Zoom.