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1744 || your sign to do some arts + crafts (and go play)
We know that Breathwork, nourishment, sleep, and a safe environment regulate your nervous system.
Play regulates your nervous system, too.
Touch regu…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
1743 || when to stop analyzing
The goal is conscious choices > conditioned responses.
Our society bases it’s values on exploitation, violation, and extraction - and we’ve been lett…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
1742 || future rehearsals
Don't forget to rehearse the best case scenario for every worst case scenario rehearsal.
S - Stop! - Freeze! Your emotions may try to make you act wi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
1741 || take back the wheel
Make a commitment to drop your usual escape methods as soon as you notice yourself doing them, and redirect. Maybe that looks like doing the opposite…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
1740 || practice not getting swept up
Practice, patience, and persistence is required to reinforce the neural pathways you'd rather reinforce.
Some distress is unavoidable, and you are fu…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
1739 || ride the wave
Coping with stress? No thanks. Avoiding stress? Yes please.
I tend to use a combination platter of situational avoidance, numbing, reassurance seekin…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
1738 || when discomfort feels impossible
The more we fear, struggle with, and try to avoid any form of distress, generally the worse that distress gets.
Distress intolerance remains due to c…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
1737 || distress intolerance
Today's resource is accessible here.
A negative emotion in itself is not necessarily distressing, we only begin to feel distressed when we evaluate o…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
1736 || when your nervous system gets interrupted
Seeing traumatic symptoms as an interrupted natural response and as unreleased energy in the body rather than a disease can lift a burden for traumat…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
1735 || somatic exercise
Somatic Experiencing is a therapy that focuses on the mind-body connection to help alleviate trauma-related tension stored in the body.
https://positi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago