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24.01.2022 , , , , , , , , , . , ... otherwise we are lost.(Pina Bausch) #mgzavrebi #tango #justdance #salomechachua #georgian

23.01.2022 Just started working with a client who has been managing chronic pain (amongst other things) since having an accident over 17 years ago and today I came across this video. Coincidence or #synchronicity ?

22.01.2022 Brand new. Like it?

22.01.2022 Take a body break <3

21.01.2022 Here's a short 5mins mantra meditation that you can follow along and try out for yourself. This is a clip from our Mantra Meditation Magic sessions that are held online via Zoom. There are many different styles of meditation that allow us to access different states of consciousness but they generally fall into two main categories- active and passive meditation. Mantra meditation is an active form of meditation, so is ecstatic dancing, breathwork and medicine drum meditation. ... Notice what your state is before you try this and if there are any changes after. Thank you for watching and if you find this helpful please feel free to share it so others may benefit from this practice. There are still places available if you would like to join us for the live sessions (or watch the recording in your own time). Please feel free to message me if you would like book in or for more information.

21.01.2022 Great description of the stress response and how this affects are moods, body and disposition. Thanks Feminine Instincts Perinatal & Trauma Services. This is the work of trauma recovery- finding your way back to regulation through co-regulation and self-regulation strategies.

20.01.2022 In times of uncertainty, its good to remember that the unknown is also the field of infinite possibilities....anything can happen- including miracles and magic!!

20.01.2022 Please watch this. Its the story of Tabitha. Its the story of us. One Million Copies of UNTAMED were sold in 19 weeks. This is WILD. I have been asking mys...elf: Why this book? And what do we do with this moment, with this momentum? UNTAMED is the flare I threw into the night sky in hopes that we would find each other. AND HERE WE ARE. A group of cheetahs is called a Coalition. WELCOME TO THE COALITION. Weve spent a decade raising $26 Million, turning our heartbreak into effective action, together. And now: The world needs us more than it ever has. Because the world is broken. But we are not. UNTAMED reminded us that angry women are not broken: We are the only ones responding appropriately to a broken world. Angry, aching women are the ones who will save us. Lets remember our wild. Lets imagine the truest, most beautiful lives, families, and world we can imagine. Lets unleash our Coalition and save ourselves. We can do hard things. And we will. Because we are goddamn cheetahs. And we were made for just such a time as this. Stay tuned. Glennon Visit UntamedBook.com if youd like to download and share this video. #GetUntamed

17.01.2022 Im wondering if we can make a distinction between boundary setting and boundary building. It feels important to break it down and acknowledge the factors that ...make boundary setting difficult. Setting a boundary might be more accessible to us if we have the skills, a semblance of safety, and the capacity to do so. Boundary setting, or the act of firmly stating or accessing your needs, might be difficult for you to do if the skills, safety, and capacity are not present. As well, the act of setting a boundary might feel too absolute or too far out of reach for you. In circumstances where thats the case, I propose we reframe the idea of boundary setting to one of boundary building. Building boundaries turns the action of setting a boundary into an ongoing process. This might allow us to better acknowledge the ways boundaries should involve an active and ongoing process of mutuality. This means that boundary building might be the precursor or prerequisite for boundary setting as it allows us to safely tune into our needs and recognize the absence of skill or capacity to enact a more concrete boundary. Boundary building might look like: Tuning into your body to recognize what it feels like to begin enacting a boundary (such as saying no) Naming the feelings that boundary setting produces Expanding your window of tolerance using trauma-informed movements breathwork or mindfulness practices that help support nervous system integration Working on self-keeping and self-protective strategies, perhaps by working with rage and anger to foster a felt sense of firmness and assertiveness Working to resource your nervous system (perhaps through a neutral anchor such as the breath or self-compassionate thoughts) with the goal of increasing tolerance for discomfort Increasing your access to your innate fight response by overriding your natural tendency to flee (flight response) or shut down (freeze response) in response to stress Cultivating an awareness of the freeze or startle response that keeps you frozen or stuck in patterns of immobility See more

17.01.2022 Fantastic image an explanation for the stress how the nervous system gets activated resulting in fight, flight, fawn, freeze of flop (shut down). So important for everyone (and not just survivors of trauma) to recognise these responses and identify where we are on this map because the only time we can feel calm and connected is when we are in the window of tolerance (ventral vagal activation).

13.01.2022 It's a pizza, which is also a feelings wheel, which is also a pizza. # Culturally, we dont make a lot of space for kids to have and express complex emotions.... Even the language we use about emotions in the presence of children tends to be extra simplified (happy, sad, bad, etc) As kids grow, though, one way we adults can help kids grow up healthy and #mentallystrong is by helping them develop the ability to check in with themselves, notice what they are feeling, and express those feelings appropriately. Helping kids develop a vocabulary to describe emotions may help them communicate their emotions better, and kids who can communicate their emotions to peers and adults, actually give those people the information they need to care well for them- which helps kids feel safe, connected, and equipped to grow into kind empathic individuals. Download this pizza #emotionwheel + an interactive game I made with it via https://lindsaybraman.com/emotion-wheel-for-kids/, or get a throw pillow, poster, or mug through https://society6.com/lindsaybraman?sort=new. Patrons got access to this free download last week, join my team at https://lindsaybraman.com/patreon #pizzafeelings #mentalhealthart #emotionalregulation #mentalhealth

13.01.2022 Even though a person can seem pretty accomplished on the outside, internalized feelings of inadequacy can run deep and undermine positive experiences. That's why we asked 7 of the world's top experts how they help clients manage feelings of "never being good enough."

13.01.2022 Remember this daily.

12.01.2022 What are you choosing to focus on?

12.01.2022 You can only heal your heart with your heart...

11.01.2022 #hivemind I am putting together a referral list of holistically inclined medical practitioners to assist my clients and would love your #recommendations or suggestions for the following: Holistic GP Holistic Gynaecologist "" Gastroenterologist "" Gut Health Specialist... "" Skin Specialist "" Psychiatrist "" Chronic Pain Management Specialist And any other holistic medical doctors that you recommend. I'm happy to share the list here once it has been completed. (Prefer to find Melbourne based practitioners but will also include those who are based elsewhere but able to provide their services online) Thank you!

10.01.2022 This is so similar to what I have been sharing with my students and clients with regards to preparing themselves for the long haul and reminding them to continue to choose joy, love and gratitude as we move through these dark and heavy times....

09.01.2022 The magic of movement

06.01.2022 Yes!!! It’s so important to come home to your body....it’s why I do the work that I do

06.01.2022 I know youre strong. EVERYONE knows youre strong. They expect you to always have it together. They just dont UNDERSTAND what its like to HAVE to be strong all the time. The constant internal pressure and chaos, and what it takes OUT OF YOU to stay on top of things ALL THE TIME....Continue reading

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05.01.2022 Have you ever wondered why human beings have been dancing since the beginning of human history? Or why dance has persisted across cultures and centuries in both traditional and non-traditional approaches of healing? Movement as Medicine video series is your opportunity to experience the transformational power of movement and dance. Shift your mental and emotional states and find a sense of peace and calm, no matter what you are going through in your internal or external worl...d. Add to your tool box of resources and learn new ways to use movement for your mind-body health (because it's more than just mental health!) and well being. Featuring a diverse range of practitioners from a variety of different backgrounds sharing the magic of movement. Come move with us! Like and follow my Facebook page, Embracing Spirit: Creative Arts/Dance Movement Therapy & Holistic Wellbeing to view the videos and receive a notification when they are published. (If you are interested to be part of the series as a facilitator, please message me or visit the Embracing Spirit website for more details) #movementasmedicine #holisticwellbeing #movementmeditation

04.01.2022 I know you’re strong. EVERYONE knows you’re strong. They expect you to always have it together. They just don’t UNDERSTAND what it’s like to HAVE to be strong all the time. The constant internal pressure and chaos, and what it takes OUT OF YOU to stay on top of things ALL THE TIME....Continue reading

04.01.2022 THE BIRTH OF HOPE: A JOURNEY TO THE ROCK BOTTOM OF TRAUMA The wound is the place where the Light enters you. - Rumi... As someone who has recovered from what we now call Complex PTSD, I want to share my most important discovery, the one principle and insight that saved my life, altered my destiny, and ultimately led to profound healing. The discovery? Awakening to my own indestructible Presence. Discovering who I really am, that calm, surrendered place in the midst of the somatic, emotional and psychological storm of the body-mind. The holy non-dual light in the darkness. No matter how intense and terrifying my feelings got over the years; no matter how tense and contracted the muscles in my body became; no matter how my mind raced and spun and catastrophized over every tiny little thing; no matter how loud and violent the inner voices of fear and shame became; no matter how much I spaced out, dissociated from my body, went numb, lost myself in nightmares; no matter how hard it was to breathe sometimes in the midst of fear, crippling social anxiety and that crushing sense of unworthiness at the core of all trauma; no matter how many times I escaped into my addictions binge eating, computer games, codependency and people-pleasing, fantasy, overworking, self-hatred, desperately attempting to control others; no matter how bad things got, there was a safe place I could always return to, a sanctuary of Self. Many times I forgot this safe place of course. Many times I lost myself in the whirlwind of trauma again. But then I would remember Trust. Breathe. You are safe. Thoughts and feelings and bodily sensations have never hurt anyone. You are here. It is now. You are not in the past. You are not in the future. You are here. Now. You are breathing. You are safe... Sometimes the work of recovery felt impossible to do by myself. Many times I sobbed in the arms of my partner, or a dear friend. Once or twice I sobbed in the arms of a stranger. Sometimes I had to write out my pain, splurge it all on paper, let the paper hold me and ground me and give me hope. Sometimes I felt I was about to die or go mad. Probably thousands of times I imagined myself being carted away in a straight-jacket, or a coffin. And then, I would drop out of the mind again, come out of thought and its myriad futures, and fall back into the fucking earth. Into the ground. Into the couch, the bed, the grass, the living day, the reality. And then, spontaneous tears would come. Or spontaneous shaking. Or spontaneous fire, the sense of my own animal power. Here, Jeff. Come back here Healing is messy. Healing is terrifying sometimes. Healing can also be blissful of course, some days. There is no right way to heal. We learn to expect the ups and the downs. We learn to expect the despair and the joy and the confusion. Sometimes healing can come unexpectedly through a scene in a movie youre watching, through a piece of music, a passage in a book, or a moment of stillness in a shopping mall. Sometimes a work of art, or a poem, or a conversation with a friend, healed and inspired and soothed me and brought me to Presence more deeply and quickly than any therapist or healing technique ever could. Sometimes, feeling unable to go on, unable to escape myself, the only place I could go was the core of my deepest pain, into the abandonment wound itself, into the heart of the dissociation and the numbness. I took the risk of letting the numbness kill me (as my mind feared it would). And every time, as I turned towards the abandonment depression, the cosmic tiredness, the searing sense of isolation, the voided void, the howling trauma core, every single fucking time it didnt kill me, and every single fucking time I found that it was the safest place to be, and every single fucking time I found relief, relaxation, even sweet healing tears there, in the place I thought I would breathe my last breath. In the darkest place, I found new creativity, new love, new life. I learned to bless my sweet body, in its full-on fight-or-flight mode, or its full-on get me out of the moment mode, bless the racing heart and the trembling limbs and the sweat and the nausea and that awful sinking feeling in the belly and that terrible sense of urgency to escape. I learned to trust it all although I hated it all so badly sometimes! I leaned to trust it all although it felt so very hard to trust sometimes. I started to become the parent - the mother and the father - I never had. The one that stayed with me in the pits of hell, who held me close and whispered, I am here. You are safe. This is just the passing intensity of the mind and body and nothing bad is happening, and you just need to remember to breathe, and it will all pass as it always has, and I am here with you through every breath you take... I learned how to be with the abandoned one inside, that terrible, lonely, searing depression at the rock bottom of all trauma. I learned to see that it was just a feeling calling for love, and it didnt define me, and it wasnt a threat, but an exquisite part of existence itself, that didnt have to be cured or defeated, but loved. Yes, I learned how to befriend the lonely one within, the abandoned one, the one who wanted to die, I learned to breathe with it and see it as a frightened part of me desperately needing my love. I learned to take care of the lost child. I found that I was bigger than my frightened mind, bigger than any feeling, however intense, bigger than grief, bigger than trauma itself, bigger than my own limited notion of myself. Layers of shame and fear began to melt away, layers of addiction, layers of mind, layers that were only trying to protect me from raw life, and my raw self, and my raw feelings and bodily sensations, and my raw truth. As all these outdated coping mechanisms fell away, I learned to see and love my imperfections again. To rejoice at my wonderful mistakes. To laugh at the absurdity of my moments. To let myself break down sometimes, to give up sometimes, to surrender, to not know. To let myself be seen by others. To stop repressing my authenticity and weirdness. To stop trying to be a carbon copy of other people. To pursue my own wonderful, scary, original path. To let myself forget, and remember, and forget again. To let myself be humbled, often. To begin again, each day. There are a hundred other things I could tell you about my healing journey. But if I only leave you with one thing right now, let it be this... There is a place in you of utter safety, innocence, stillness, purity. It is ancient and wise and has survived a billion nightmares. It is unnameable and crystal clear, as soft as the finest cashmere, tougher than diamond, and more loving than anything you could possibly imagine. It is fearless yet it holds the most overwhelming terror like a newborn baby. It is not a destination. It is not a place you get to one day. It is not some far-off utopia. It cannot abandon you. It is God before God. It is you, your deepest self, prior to any trauma. Obscured sometimes, yes, but never truly lost. It is the eye of the storm. Utterly unmoving. Utterly still. Utterly powerful. I am grateful to my deepest psychological pain. It showed me the way Home. It cracked me open to my holy vulnerability and the preciousness of this human existence. It taught me things that joy and bliss and all kinds of worldly success could never, ever teach. My trauma took me close to death, yes, but then it woke me up to more life. There is so much hope, friend. There is so much hope. - Jeff Foster