I've Tried Everything and I'm Not Sure This Will Help Me

Since I was a little girl, I’ve struggled with my health.  Chronic sinus infections and nausea, a year of undiagnosed cysts, emergency surgery, fibroids, and anemia, to name a few.  I’ve had doctors tell me I was making it up, say it was a virus when they had no idea what was going on, and laugh in my face when I told them how I felt.  Today, I see these ongoing challenges as the motor behind my insatiable desire to find optimal health and wellness. There is something in me that believes that I CAN feel good in this life, and I will do what I can to seek that goodness.  

My latest challenge is a combination of blood sugar, hormonal, and metabolic issues that create chronic hunger.

Here’s the cycle: my blood sugar plummets rapidly and my brain gets foggy. I’ll eat something, and then immediately be starving as if I haven't eaten in days. When my blood sugar drops, I feel like an emotional and physical wreck. Because of this, I feel chronically panicked about food. I think about my next snack or meal constantly, and make sure to always have food with me (which has to be just the right kind of food so I don’t crash). And before you know it, I’m hungry again.

UGH…exhausting.  

I knew that I couldn't keep up with this on my own and that I needed some help. I saw doctors, I took tests, but just like the rest of my life, I found allopathic medicine coming up short.

So, that part of me that never gives up on my health, that KNOWS my body can heal, went on a hunt to find someone who could support me in this next level of healing.  I invested money and trust in a specialist who works with these challenges and got to work.

I’ve been on the new protocol for 2 weeks and I am delighted to say…it’s starting to work!  After struggling for so long and trying things that haven’t worked for decades, I am a little bit shocked. AND I also know that with the right habits and ingredients, the intelligence in my BodyHome can move the needle in the right direction.

It’s going to take some time and I’m here for it.

I’m hopeful and I’m willing to do the uncomfortable things to shift how I feel.

It feels important to note that

Feeling good in my body takes priority over the discomfort of changing habits.

This has become my mantra when it comes to being a steward of my BodyHome.  It is a mantra that naturally arose when I began working on my nervous system. Daily, I am creating new ways of relating to my BodyHome that help me to feel safer, at ease, and that I’ve got me.

Don’t get me wrong, there are times when I get overwhelmed and can’t do more for my health.  The energy and effort ebbs and flow.  Sometimes I just need to let it go and then, I get a message from my body that it's time for a change.

Are you are getting the sense that:

• The stress, anxiety, stuckness, or depression you’re feeling is in your body?

• Just talking about your issues or past is perpetuating the trauma?

• The time is now to make habit changes that will support your system in feeling more at ease?

• You KNOW that there is an intelligence in you that you want to support to feel more at home in your body?

• You want to experience your own power, confidence, and intuition?

• Your wish for the future is you feeling better and better, not sicker and sicker?

If you said yes to any of these questions and you still feel hesitant or unsure about taking a step forward, I completely get it.  I feel both sides of the coin every time I step into something new. It’s natural and it makes sense.  

Does feeling unsure mean to step closer or step back?

Great Question! Only you know what’s true for you.

Here is what I know:  

Maybe it’s possible to hold hope and uncertainty at the same time. See what that feels like for you. Can you tolerate that little bit of discomfort in service of feeling something new and different? Can you tolerate the little bit of I don’t know if this will work for me in service of feeling more embodied, calm, and empowered with tools to take care of your system?

When you’re sick of the old patterns and ways of being that aren’t working for you, you will be ready to take action.  

IF you are ready, I invite you to:

Join the Settle Your Sh*t Healing groups starting in July
8 weeks of group sharing and nervous system work
Join the waitlist here.

Or

I invite you to contact me here to schedule a one-on-one consultation to talk about somatic therapy

Have courage and follow the cycles.
With LOVE and Regulation
Dorie

PS. Check out the weekly class schedule for Somatic Movement Classes

"It’s all unfolding faster than my nervous system and psyche can manage it"- John Kabat Zinn

I'm sure you've experienced it.  Life has become unmanageable and you're feeling anxious, stuck,or highly emotional and you don't know what to do.

"It’s all unfolding faster than my
nervous system and psyche can manage it"
- John Kabat Zinn

Should I calm myself down?
Should I push through and wait for it to pass?

There's something in you that knows you have to do something.  And you know it goes deeper than your thoughts and memories, it's in your body. But all you have is your old strategies that might dull the pain for the short term.

I lived in this space for 45 years.  Feeling like my emotions were controlling me rather than feeling as if I have control.  I hated it and I started hating myself.  I felt like no matter what I tried, the effects were short-lived and I was right back into my old patterns.  It felt like these patterns were who I was and I just had to accept it.

Then, I found a way to understand these patterns and the exact tools that worked for my nervous system.  This was absolute freedom.  I started to see shifts very soon after I started receiving Somatic Experiencing sessions and even 6 years later, I still see them happening, for myself and my clients every day.

You can feel empowered with tools that work specifically for your nervous system.  This isn't some cookie-cutter plan or process.  This is actual science that you can apply to your specific nervous system and develop ways of relating to yourself that will help you shift out of feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and stuck.

Ready to get started?
Signup for the next Settle Your Sh*t healing group here
Reach out here to set up a 30-minute complimentary consultation regarding somatic therapy

Check out the weekly somatic movement class schedule here

With LOVE and Regulation~
Dorie

How is Somatic Therapy Different?

When I do complimentary consults with people, they tell me their story and symptoms (typically people come to when they're feeling stuck, anxious, chronically angry, and/or depressed as well as chronic pain). If it feels like a good fit for both of us, I explain how we can work together to support their transformation.

Then I usually get this question, how are we going to do that? What does it look like? And how is this different than talk therapy?

These are great questions. I wondered this too when I started and I'm so glad you asked.

Talk therapy tends to utilize the cognitive part of your brain to talk through memories, see patterns, and understand where you came from and why you have these patterns. It helps you to make meaning of those patterns with an empathic guide and witness. Some talk therapies also bring aspects of mindfulness, creativity, and imagination into the process.

I am trained in Somatic Experiencing. Read till the end for a link to their website and my listing.

Somatic Experiencing clears stuck stress aka trauma and brings about ease, feeling of safety, creativity, and willingness to connect with others by working with your beautiful nervous system. Your nervous system is the underlying intelligent glue of your entire being. When we work with your nervous system, you will get in touch with the somatic (soma means of the body) part of you as well as the part of you that talk therapy touches.

Your wholeness is made up of:

Sensation
Images
Behavior
Affect/Emotions
Meaning

So much of our culture and upbringing represses or ignores these amazing and highly intelligent parts of you that are a portal to your healing. A big part of the Settle Your Sh*t process is to clear the stuck stress causing anxiety, feeling stuck, chronic pain, and depression by bringing together all of these parts of yourself. Your whole self feels like you can move forward in your life, connect with the people you love, and safely experience the full range of emotions.

I spent decades wondering what was wrong with me. I felt disconnected, depressed, and like I was living on a different dimension. I felt alone and that no one understood me, that I was damaged. It went on for so many decades and tried so many therapies, diets, and modalities that there was a part of me that felt like healing wasn't possible and that I would never feel how I wanted to feel. When I started this work, I began to feel something different emerge in me. I now FEEL connected, a part of this world, the full range of emotions without it shutting me down. I feel empowered because I now know how to handle the stress that comes my way. I know that I've got me.

If my system can shift then yours certainly can too!

If you're ready to step into your own healing I invite you to join the Settle Your Sh*t Healing Group.

This is a group of 10 women and female-identified humans who are wanting to do this work in the community. We will meet on zoom weekly for 5 weeks and do the work of connecting to your beautiful and highly intelligent nervous system.
Once I have a full group we will decide together on our day/time.

Signup on the waitlist here
https://doriesilverman.com/sysgroup-waitlist

You are not alone. Your nervous system is waiting for you. Let's support it and you in feeling you're wholeness.

Rather do private 1 on 1 work?
Reply to this email to set up a 30-minute consultation

Check out the weekly class schedule and info on Somatic Experiencing below

With LOVE and Regulation~
Dorie

Classes this week:
Wednesday 9:30-10:30 am CST Somatic Bowspring
Saturday 10-11:15 am CST Somatic Yoga

Register at:
www.doriesilverman.com/classes

Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing Training Institute

Read my practitioner Listing on the SE Website