Interrupt your Fight/Flight
By ngutierrez82
- Jun, 06, 2019
Our Autonomic Nervous system consists of our sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight/freeze/fright/Flag/Faint response) and parasympathetic nervous system (in charge of conserving energy, relaxing our bodies, slowing our heart rates).
When we’re going through our day feeling triggered, on hyper-alert, and regularly …
Intergenerational Trauma
- May, 27, 2019
Intergenerational trauma aka Ancestral trauma. In my style of understanding and working through trauma, I believe it’s important to also consider the multigenerational process of passed down pain, patterns, attachment, ways of resolving/avoiding conflict. It’s important to consider how complex …
Intentional Living
- May, 27, 2019
The more I read and the more I learn it seems living intentionally is at the core of this healing journey. Mastering regulating our bodies so we spend less time triggered and activated, more time reflecting on who we are …
What is your relationship to Self?
- May, 05, 2019
When we’re finding ourselves unforgiving of others when they’re unintentionally hurt us, it may be helpful to also look within and see if this is also how we treat and see ourselves. Remember- as within so without, as above so …
Are You Afraid of Conflict?
- May, 02, 2019
Having conflict with others can feel incredibly scary. When we’re raised in verbally, emotionally, physically, and psychologically abusive environments we are told to be obedient otherwise we will experience punishment. Punishment may come in different forms- parental neglect or abandonment, …
Avoid Perfectionism
- Apr, 03, 2019
Do not allow your journey of healing to be shadowed with striving for perfection. Do not! It’s important we not conflate perfection with strength, right, good, great, or progress. That we strive to be great, not to be perfect. That …
I’m Not Okay
- Mar, 21, 2019
It’s hard to utter these words to yourself and others. Just even the mere thought and admittance of this can feel deeply scary and shattering.
We want to show the world we are functioning. We want to show the world …
Live Mindfully
- Mar, 15, 2019
Let us face it. Many of us start the week with a fresh new start, or still tired from the weekend…and before we know it, we are pulled into the abyss of stress, detachment from our bodies, disconnection from our …
Ancestral Trauma
- Feb, 28, 2019
We carry what has happened to our ancestors within our bodies and interact with the world unconsciously carrying them into spaces with us. What is left unresolved in families continues to be passed down generationally. We carry the pain of …
Unexpressed Emotion in Body and Trauma
- Apr, 05, 2016
Unexpressed Emotion Lives in the Body.
Sometimes we don’t have the words to consciously name or connect with emotions we are feeling. These feelings can continue to live within us until we begin to validate their experience and give them …