The Five-Question Descent: From Behavior Down to the Wounded Child

✦ CORE PATH

Choose today-sized material: a snap, a spiral, a numb hour: 3–4/10 intensity. Paper, ten quiet minutes.

Q1 (behavior): What did I do? One sentence, no judgment. ______

Q2 (questions): Right before: what was THERE? A feeling, image, sensation? How intense /0-10? How old did it feel? ______

Q3 (protectors): Who ran the show: which manager, which firefighter? Ask directly: “Thank you. What are you protecting me from?” Wait. Write whatever comes. ______

Q4 (child): If that protection has a client… how old is the feeling? Any scene’s WEATHER (not details)? What sentence got filed? ______

Q5 (healing, brief): As the adult, one true sentence TO that age: “You were right that . What actually happened was . It’s ___ years later, and I’m the proof.” ______

Then ANCHOR CLOSED: feet down, long exhale, five objects named in the room. Always close on the anchor…

Check the descent’s authenticity marker: did Q4 produce an age younger than now, arrived at involuntarily? Did Q5 produce any discharge: sting, warmth, breath-drop? Then real strata moved, not theater.

If you feel flooded: feet on the floor, eyes open, name five things you can see, breathe out twice as long as you breathe in. That is skill, not failure. This site is education, not therapy — in crisis, contact local emergency services (US 988 · FR 3114 · QC 811).

The Five-Question Descent: From Behavior Down to the Wounded Child

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