by Steve Haines | Apr 23, 2025 | TRE
It may be five years since the first covid lockdowns, but in some ways we’re still navigating very disrupted times culturally and politically. In these challenging times, we can resource ourselves by acknowledging the feeling states inside of us. For me, the body is... 
by Steve Haines | Apr 8, 2025 | TRE
The very nature of trauma is that it is overwhelming – it’s more than our organisms can cope with. Trauma often shatters our worldview and rules of fairness and justice no longer seem to apply, which can lead to a spiritual crisis and a profound re-evaluation of... 
by Steve Haines | Mar 11, 2025 | TRE
A few years ago, several newspapers wrote stories about my Trauma and Tension Releasing (TRE) workshops, calling TRE “the new mindfulness craze set to take London by storm.” Today I thought I’d share one of the articles, from the London Evening Standard (you can see... by Steve Haines | Mar 28, 2024 | Pain, TRE
This article was written by Sylvia Benoist. (Note from Steve: Sylvia recently completed her training as a TRE – Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises – supervisor (mentor with me), and I asked her to share her journey with TRE and Ankylosing Spondylitis,... by Steve Haines | Jan 24, 2024 | TRE
I think it’s very useful to define trauma as “anything that overwhelms our ability to cope”, as well as to view trauma as a continuum. The overwhelm that leads to trauma patterns in the body may be from a specific experience such as a car accident, sexual abuse,... 
by Steve Haines | May 18, 2023 | Anxiety, Pain, TRE
There is a lot of pain around: In a huge study (Breivik et al 2006) across 15 European countries, 19% of people reported living with moderate to severe pain for more than 6 months. That’s 1 in 5 people in persistent pain states, the majority for many years. Holy moly....
