Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. This is intended to educate, inspire and support you healing stress and embodying your highest self. Some content might be sensitive; I invite you to practice self-harmonizing.

Constantly spinning your wheels?

Putting in HUGE amounts of effort into your work, home, side hustle, and personal development… and yet you feel like you’re not accomplishing anything.

Just running… going no where fast.

Never ending list of things to do.

Mind feels as cluttered as your desk.

Energy levels plummeting year after year.

Confidence plummeting along with it.

Here’s why — when stress enters the nervous system, the body creates mobilizing energy (fight/flight) to deal with the stressor. This mobilizing energy isn’t released because we don’t use the energy!

You probably don’t hit your colleague or run away from your boss, do you?

So the energy stays trapped, piling on more stress day after day… after day…

To the point of anxiety, overwhelm, brain fog, confusion about what to do and how to do it, dwindling motivation and confidence, and this pervasive voice in your head telling you “I am just not good enough”.

How to get out of this hole?

Same way you got there… your physiology.

the body keeps the score

A revolutionary idea and book title written by a leading expert in post traumatic stress disorder, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.

It’s important to note trauma is a type of overwhelming stress, and the principles used in healing trauma help stress in it’s various forms (including chronic stress, complex PTSD, and more)

Leaders like Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Pat Ogden, and many many many more have been sharing the sharing how healing overwhelming stress happens when we work with the body.

The last 3 decades of research into psychology, neuroscience and more, science is pointing to:

Stressful life events (chronic or traumatic) reshape our brain and body
Stress isn’t a conscious decision (from the mind), it’s an automatic physiological response (from the body)
Healing doesn’t happen from conscious, logical, rational, analytical mind, it’s happens in the unconscious body… have you ever tried telling yourself not to be anxious? Doesn’t work does it…

This is somatic therapy.

And it could be the difference between feeling confused, anxious, overwhelmed and feeling calm, creative, confident and f*cking CAPABLE to handle anything in your life!

somatic therapy tapping/EFT — Stephanie practicing tapping/EFT, a somatic therapy

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There are so many forms of somatic therapy ranging from various forms of yoga, Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), tapping/EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Bodymind Centering, and soooo many more.

There is no one size fits all when it comes to healing.

Here are three simple somatic therapy practices you can implement TODAY!

So you make steps towards reducing harmful effects of stress out of the bodymind so you can put overwhelm behind you NOW!