Emergent Resilience 10: Honoring Limits & Pushing Beyond: Strength Training and Nervous System healing.
“Hacking” vs. “Healing”
….or, do we REALLY want to “hack” our nervous system?
It’s an appealing thought… the idea that there’s a “secret” trick, hack, tool or practice that could rewire your nervous system once and for all.
It would be awesome if we could just find the practice or the tool that would “clear”…
It’s no secret that our early formative years were instrumental in laying in our nervous system’s foundations.
At a very young age, we learned deep in our bodies what felt “safe” - and what did not.
And it may have not felt safe to fully be who we truly were.
Even if there was no…
A rainbow in New Mexico.
How does your nervous system respond to the seasons?
While celebrating my one year anniversary of moving to New Mexico (after spending most my life in balmy and temperate Southern California), I’m LOVING the energy of the elements, lately. The high-desert heat, the intensity of the wind, the sudden rain.…
We've all felt it... the surge of emotion. The wave of intensity. The energy that fills our beings that some part of us says is "too much".
As a resourced, awake, aware goddess... you probably know intellectually that you're NOT too much. That every bit of you is divine.
And yet.... there's a part of…
A common question I hear from clients goes something like this: “I think I’ve been affected by trauma, and that it’s affected my body/ health/ emotional well being.... but I don’t know which trauma caused this so I don’t know where to start to try to release and heal it. Do…
Yesterday, I was reminded of something important by a very wise mentor of mine: "Your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are NOT the truth." And that statement completely re-calibrated some things that were feeling stuck for me. (Now, this statement might sound surprising coming from me, since I'm always talking about things like trusting…
I was happy to receive this from a lovely client today:
Hi Rachel,
Just wanted to share that I had an important realization related to our work together. Right now, I have more business than ever -- I'm booked for 3 solid weeks and requests for sessions are still coming in. I just sat…