Emergent Resilience 10: Honoring Limits & Pushing Beyond: Strength Training and Nervous System healing.
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…
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…
Have you ever found yourself running into "upper limits"? One of the interesting things about how our nervous systems are wired is that they are set up first and foremost to keep us safe. To our nervous systems and primitive parts of our brain, the "known" feels safe, while the unknown feels like a…
In the process of somatic healing, one of the things we start off with is looking for “islands of safety.”
When things have been tough for a while, it can become challenging to feel or find any kind of safety. If the nervous system has never actually learned how to settle and feel safe, then…
One of the things I’m passionate about is honoring uniqueness and differences in the ways our brains and bodies are wired.
Many folk struggle with mindfulness practices, and assume that the struggle means they need to just try harder. While honoring the truth that mindfulness is a practice and a discipline, it’s also…
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