How to start healing despite what nature wants How do we humans avoid feeling our emotions? Ah, let me count the ways! We are wired to avoid our emotions, not mindfully embrace them. It is clear from affective neuroscience research that emotions are connected to our evolutionary motivation system. Feelings signal how we are reading […]
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Trauma and Fascia Think about when you burn yourself – by the time you realize that something is too hot – you are already burned. It takes some time for the pain signal to reach the brain and then for your brain to send out a response for you to remove the hot item. In
No Matter the Cause once trauma occurs this is what needs to happen The body can respond to trauma in many ways. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality. Again and again, a person will relive the life-threatening experiences they have suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events
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Why You need tri-awareness to heal YOUR BODY Movement is a way to learn to pay attention to the senses, inside and out. This can be extremely important when endeavoring to resolve trauma. It is the information from the senses that the amygdala [which is responsible for emotions, survival, and memory] uses to determine whether
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Trauma Informed movement prescription Often times the hardest part about movement is where to start. When you’ve experienced trauma fear and uncertainty are huge factors to consider when starting a movement protocol. Just as there are many different types of trauma and ways they are expressed, the good news is there is no magic prescription
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Trauam Informed movement Trauma-Informed Movement is an approach in which movement coaches have an understanding of how trauma impacts the brain, nervous system, movement, and overall whole body. The goal of the trauma-informed movement is NOT to diagnose or cure it. Instead, it is a targeted practice designed to assist movement coaches to enhance the
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Trauma-INFORMED New Year’s Resolutions New Year, New Who? For many with trauma-related issues and needs, Happy New Year is a kind of an oxymoron – there isn’t much that feels happy when facing a New Year that includes continuing to deal with the impact of unresolved trauma. Unresolved trauma carries many unpleasant, frightening, stressful thoughts,
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heavy things… If I have one piece of advice for you today it would be to pick up heavy things and move! There was a time in your life, probably when you were a kid, when you were excited and challenged by something heavy. You would try to push or pull your couch across the
Do you find yourself sleeping until the last possible second before dragging yourself out of bed, wondering, “Why am I always tired?” Or maybe you just don’t have the energy to get things done the way you once did. Fatigue and a lack of energy are a big problem for many people, but these problems
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There are a few new people in the community, so I wanted to share the story on how Fitomize began. 10 years ago almost to the day, I was at home nursing my newborn baby boy. My husband and I struggled to have children so to me he was my wonder child. We had spent
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