TRE is a calming technique that empowers personnel to release muscular tension, reduce stress and anxiety and switch off hypervigilance on their own whenever and wherever they need to. By rebalancing the nervous system below the level of conscious control, TRE provides a body-based alternative to mindfulness and talk-therapies to help prevent stress, vicarious trauma, PTSD and burnout, as well as providing a complimentary technique to support and enhance the effects of other treatments and practices including general exercise.

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TRE can be used as an early intervention strategy to ‘debrief the body’ after critical incidents, or on an ongoing and regular basis to reduce anxiety and build resilience and coping capacity in the nervous system over time.

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Click here for a podcast on how TRE offers a simple but profound body-based tool to decompress before, during or after Military Service

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Why TRE

TRE is a self-care tool empowering personnel in the self-management of their performance and wellbeing without requiring them to talk to others or recall past events.It is especially effective when service personnel are most fatigued as it is easy to do and requires almost no mental or physical effort and can even be used lying in bed to improve sleep quality and assist with getting to sleep.

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TRE can be practiced in as little as 5-10 minutes and is easily integrated into existing exercise and recovery routines providing a practical tool to switch off hypervigilance and assist with the transition from work to home life.

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Click here for a 15 minute presentation on the use of TRE to prevent PTSD from the Fearless National Conversation on PTSD

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TRE Resilience Training

TRE Resilience Training provides a body-based, stigma-free, trauma-informed model of resilience with a strong focus on the self-regulation of the nervous system and the self-management of occupational performance and wellbeing. 

In addition to normalising shakes and tremors occurring spontaneously after stressful or traumatic events as a natural recovery response, TRE can be used to ‘debrief the body’ after critical incidents, as part of standard recovery routines to help build ‘neurobiological resilience’ in the nervous system over time, or at the end of a shift to help the transition from work to home life by switching off hypervigilance and shifting the physiology of the body to more calm, relaxed and relational states.

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Evaluations of TRE by front-line health professionals in Australia consistently report immediate calming effects & unanimously recommend TRE for other staff in their organisations.

Click here for an evaluation of TRE by NSW Health Staff

Peer-reviewed research has shown TRE helps to reduce domestic violence and mental health conditions, as well as improving quality of life and the capacity to deal with adversity.

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With thanks to TRE Australia for content