Trauma Bond Week
Step 2
Step 2: Interrupt the Loop
The neon glints off wet pavement. Rain drips in slow motion.
You stand still while the world moves beneath your feet.
Trauma bonds don’t survive on emotion.
They survive on **ritual** — the checking, the replaying, the imagining.
Every repetition tells your nervous system:
*Stay ready. Stay attached.*
Healing doesn’t require a dramatic goodbye.
It starts with one clean interruption — one pause instead of a reaction.
Nervous system truth:
Trauma bonds strengthen through repetition.
One interruption — even small — weakens the pathway and opens space for choice.
Today’s grounding focus
Pause. Instead of react.
Micro-steps for today
- Interrupt one ritual (checking, fantasizing, rehearsing).
- Replace it with a grounding action: breath, feet on floor, cold water.
- Notice the pause without rushing it.
Quotable line:
You don’t need closure — you need interruption.
One choice breaks the rhythm. Today — choose pause.
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