Turbocharge Your Self-Care
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How do you take care of your bodyhome?
One thing I've noticed in myself, my clients, and our culture is that we are so so good at doing. In fact, we are so great at doing that we’ve become human doers. That human doing has caused us to evolve in amazing ways and it has also left behind a really essential part of who we are your somatic bodyhome, or nervous system. In that leaving that behind we have been cultured and evolved out of being able to really complete our emotions leaving us stuck with repetitive trauma patterns ie our defensive responses on the surface and our wholeness is hidden underneath. This can cause so many health problems including migraines, chronic diseases, chronic pain autoimmune, digestion problems, and emotional problems like depression and anxiety.
So, back to self-care. How can you reclaim your body home, reclaim your nervous system so that you feel like yourself again? I am really curious about this whole intersection between doing self-care and how to create long-term change in you. Are you putting a bandaid on the problem or really going to the root of it and repatterning how your nervous system responds to stress? Are you fully receiving the benefits?
Let's say part of your self-care is rubbing oil on your body and getting into an Epsom salt bath. Wonderful! You’re DOing the thing. Now, how can you receive the full benefit of it? Receiving the benefit of it is noticing how your nervous system is reacting to the bath. To do this you must know your own nervous system patterns and what those patterns are telling you. Is my nervous system moving towards regulation? How do I know that? And what do I do with this information? This starts to rewire how your body responds to stress. So it's not just doing the self-care but adding that extra piece of tracking. “How is my nervous system responding to this right now? Is it regulating? How do I know?” This is the key and what starts that whole rewiring process of letting down our defenses and being present in a full-body way.
Back to the bath example. Let's say you're taking a really hot bath. Initially, the sensation of hot water on your skin feels really good and you’re soaking that in. Then at a certain point, it can get to be too hot. How do I know when I’m getting too activated by the heat? How does my body tell me when I've had enough. This is where the skills of getting to know your body home on a nervous system level moment-to-moment rewire how you respond to stress. Rewiring actually changes your ability to digest your emotions rather than getting stuck in them or in old emotional responses.
If you are someone who struggles with
anxiety
depression
chronic pain
chronic digestive issues
migraines
autoimmune
blood sugar imbalances
This is your body’s way of telling you that there is stuck stress-energy (trauma) that is trying to finish and it can’t.
If you are interested in rewiring your stress response, finish that stuck stress-energy and help your body to heal in the most foundational level, then you’ll definitely want to reply to this email for a complimentary 30-min consult. You don’t have to keep doing the same old pattern. Your nervous system wants to protect you, take care of you, and keep you healthy. Let’s help her do just that.
Let's reclaim our humanness and wholeness as human beings, not human doings.
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