Name: Free Therapy Tool: The Window of Tolerance
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T17:21:12.000Z
Duration: 3 min 27 s
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So whenever I talk to my friends, I like to ask them, what are you learning lately?

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Because, you know, all the girlies are in therapy and I need content.

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Well, actually, my therapist just taught me about the window of tolerance.

So everyone has a window of tolerance where you're able to be settled, deal with life's day-to-day stresses, self-regulate, and think rationally.

And some people have a window that's large, but for people who have experienced trauma, it can be reduced significantly.

It's actually one of the primary symptoms of PTSD.  My window of tolerance is actually the size of a cat door.

So everyone has experiences that will push them out of their window of tolerance, either into hyperarousal, which is fight, flight, or freeze.  It's anxiety and fear and emotional overwhelm and angry outbursts, or hypoarousal, which is a shutdown or collapsed response.

It's numbness, depression, disassociation, emptiness.

And when you're not in your window, you can't process stress or emotions or make rational decisions.

So what do you do when you're in either of those states?

So if you're in hyperarousal, you should do regulation techniques to actually calm yourself down.

But if you're in hypoarousal, you need to do activities that raise your energy, like going on a walk or exercise.

Okay, so activities that bring your nervous system back into neutral territory.

And what's really cool is that I'm actually working with my therapist to expand my window of tolerance so that I'm just more able to cope with challenges and existing.

Okay, so everyone is different, but for me, that's honoring my body's needs and energy levels on an intuitive level.

So I'm basically saying no when I need to, setting boundaries, making sure that I get enough exercise, aggressively protecting my sleep schedule.

And also I've noticed getting massages really helps me ground in the present and in my body more.

And the more that I really listen to my body and nourish it, the more tolerance and capacity I have.

Oh, oh, no, I'm not gonna pay you for this free therapy information.

I'm just gonna make a video about it and then share it with the world.

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Free Therapy Tool: The Window of Tolerance

anxiety

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