Hitting a wall - Anxiety, anger, irritability, stuckness...

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About this time of the year + the pandemic, clients and I are experiencing hitting the wall. Those moments where you’re full up, you’ve had enough and can’t take any more. There may be a voice in your mind that tries to rationalize, “You’re home all day, why are you overwhelmed. Shit, you’re not doing anything”. You may notice that when you’re at your limit your energy crashes, your mind feels like scrambled eggs and everything takes so much effort to get done, even normal everyday stuff. If you’re like me, on top of it you may feel that your emotions are right there on the surface and anything could unleash irritability, anger, lashing out, or crying a lot. For others, it may feel like anxiety or stuckness in your chest. It is totally natural that you’re feeling this way. Accumulated stress in captivity will do that to a nervous system. 

Our numbers are high and we don’t know how much longer this is going to go on. So, what the F do we do about it?

Think about your nervous system as a cup. When the cup is totally full (those moments of stuckness), and you try to pour more into it (pushing yourself to do more, paying attention to the mean voice in your head, or denying your actual feelings), it's going to overflow (unleashed emotion).

Making space in your cup is #1. Once there’s space, emotions become able to move through you and finish. Since we’re all handling a lot, we want to do that slow and steady. Regulated, baby.

Unfortunately, our parents didn’t model this for us or even know how to do it. Unfortunately, our go go, work more, do more culture doesn’t support this work. This inner work, to change your nervous system patterns on how you handle stress is no joke. It's counter-cultural and it is a very deep form of advocacy for claiming humanness and wholeness.

If this is resonating with you, reply to this email for private one on one work. Want to read about a client’s experience working with me? Her testimonial is below.

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Begin by joining a somatic movement class at doriesilverman.com/classes. Each class includes nervous system regulation so you’ll get the benefits of finding a sense of ease and calm in your body home.

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Carve out space to develop a connection to your nervous system this week.
Join us for Somatic Movement classes.

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With Love and Regulation

~Dorie

P.S. It’s not normal to feel anxiety, depression, and overwhelm just because everyone else does too. Let’s clear what’s bogging you down so you can enjoy your life and thrive. Reply to this email to have a chat. And read what a client has to say about Somatic Experiencing below.

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