
How It Works
You have probably tried to manage your stress and overwhelm with body work, exercise, supplements, meditation, and yoga. You have probably also tried conventional medicine, nutrition, medication, and counseling.
You may have sought the help of an energy healer or psychic, tried some divination, and spent an evening or two ranting to a friend. At some point you may have found something that helped, but it doesn’t anymore.
And when your go-to methods stopped working, you even may have tried ignoring your symptoms, hoping they would go away when your life circumstances changed.
What’s often missing in other approaches is that they simply focus on fixing symptoms, but ignore the deeper cause and the context that these symptoms are arising in.
The tools stop working because they come from outside yourself. Your unique life path calls for your unique solution.
Changing things purely on a mental or emotional level won’t change things completely. Our experiences and beliefs don’t just exist in our minds; they have a home in our bodies.
The root of our triggers are based on a set of rules we learned in childhood and have stored in our psyches, our nervous systems, and our physical bodies. We cannot change the things we have experienced, but we can change our mental, emotional, and energetic experience of those events by working with the body.
Releasing stored trauma from the physical body makes space for change. But simply using body-based approaches — like exercise, bodywork, and movement practices — doesn’t necessarily bring the body to the therapeutic process.
Genuine, lasting change is based on these principles:
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The nervous system regulates our well-being. Until we get this essential process engaged, it’s hard for deep healing to take place and, most importantly, stick. You already have the answers you need, but you may not be able to hear them over the roar of inner critics and outside voices. Slowing down allows you to get quiet enough to hear the whispers of your deep body wisdom.
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We each have an innate desire to be loved and accepted. When something is missing in our environment as children, we develop strategies to protect ourselves, and we react in ways that support those strategies. We need to listen to — and give voice and validation to — all of our parts and bring them into relationship with one another, so that we can respond, rather than react, to our lives.
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The body holds a core, energetic frequency shaped around our beliefs and experiences. Working on integrating and restructuring these vibrations will allow a shift in perceptions and provide a deeper awareness of your psycho-neuro-emotional health.
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There is an organic rhythm to the cycles of nature — an expansion and contraction — that allows us to move and flow with experience. If we see ourselves as part of nature, as part of the larger ecosystem in which we live we become fundamentally connected to its cycles and rhythms. We can allow these cycles and rhythms to support and carry us. Learning how to open and receive the sacredness of who you are in the world around you is an integral step in the healing process; it is essential to creating the safety and connection that is needed to heal trauma.
If you focus on only one or two to the exclusion of the rest, you will find yourself cycling from therapy to therapy in frustration. And, because you have been there, you know how frustrating and disappointing that is. But when you bring these four fundamental elements together in synergy, you finally move toward true and lasting wholeness.
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