Tremoring in the wild
The following video shows an impala, which has gone into the freeze response. Before it went into freeze, the impala was running for its life, its system flooded with adrenaline, cortisol, and glucose, which empowered it to flee. Luckily for the impala, a hyena distracted the leopard, and then two baboons chased the leopard away.
Thanks to a patient (amateur) videographer, we get to witness the impala coming out of freeze into a natural tremoring response, which releases the fight/flight energy that was aborted by the freeze. In spite of its harrowing experience, the impala bounds off, never to suffer PTSD or other trauma- or stress-related diseases, thanks to the fact that it “shook off” the traumatic experience immediately after it took place.
A short animated explanation of the Impala's experience
This video also explains the freeze mode, which the impala in the video above goes into.
Savannah’s first deer hunt
We show an edited version of this video during our trainings, but if you don’t eat meat, you might want to skip this one. The reason 9-year-old Savannah shakes in this video is because of a phenomenon called “buck fever.” In Savannah’s case, it came after she shot her first buck. What we love is her inquisitive fearlessness about the shaking itself and the fact that her good-natured dad gave her the time to shake until she was done.
Dr. David Berceli on different kinds of tremoring
Dr. Berceli, creator of TRE, addresses how the fields of psychology, neurology, and physiology view different kinds of tremors.
The Neurobiological theory of Tremors
Here is a short explanation of how the tremors work in the body's muscle and nervous systems.
The cat and the cucumber
This is the video we use in our trainings to show how lightening-quick our survival instincts are. In seven seconds, it shows all three parts of the stress response cycle: safety, a (perceived) threat, and response.
TRE during childbirth
We’re grateful to Nienja Bower for allowing us to witness how TRE helped her give birth to her son Rio.
Firefighters who use TRE
A Mexican firefighter talks about how TRE supports him and his team in dealing with the stress they're exposed to in the course of their work.
Dr. Berceli and Kip Bradley helping vets with PTSD
A testimony to the effectiveness of TRE as a tool for healing PTSD.
Dr. Berceli's video of Leckey
Dr. Berceli took this video of Leckey at our Level II training in Damascus, Oregon. Leckey has since retired as a firefighter/EMT.
Leckey on Canadian TV
We can't embed this video, but you can watch it here. This news footage was taken during our Level I training in Vancouver, BC.
This is an excellent video, which the owner has disallowed to be shared on websites. However, it is exciting to me to see that the full depths of what I’ve been talking about with others for some times ids finally being explored. I’ve mentioned the amazing depth of the aspects of resilience one can achieve and healing, and moving into post trauma growth: the physical resilience, the emotional and cognitive, the social/sexual and spiritual resilience, and the environmental resilience. This excites me!