Skill #10: How Emotions Get Trapped in Your Body and How to Release Them
Trauma, anxiety, and other emotions can get trapped in your body- essentially emotions can get stored in your autonomic nervous system response. Your nervous system
Trauma, anxiety, and other emotions can get trapped in your body- essentially emotions can get stored in your autonomic nervous system response. Your nervous system
Avoidance and Sharks Imagine this for a moment — that I have you hooked up to monitors that measure your anxiety. They can tell when
Sometimes we get stuck going in circles with an emotion, a memory, or a problem. But there are ways we can escape that cycle. In
How does anxiety affect your brain? When your deep brain perceives a threat, it turns on the anxiety response. Anxiety turns down your ability to
The Mind Body Connection is powerful; our emotions are stored not only in our brain, but in our bodily response. When we have a strong
You can’t always believe everything you feel. Sometimes strong emotions are actually covering up deeper emotions. In the 7th skill in my How to Process
This is the one skill I wish everyone had- Willingness- the ability to experience your emotions without needing to immediately escape or avoid them. Willingness
In this guided meditation, I walk you through visualizing your happy place, your safe place, your calming place so that you can relax and fall
The Anxiety Cycle Here’s the amazing thing about your brain, it’s made to re-wire itself all the time. This is called Neuroplasticity-Scientists used to think
Hello Everyone! You want to know what my favorite thing is? Neuroplasticity- the ability our brain has to learn, grow, to change its physical structure