Resetting the nervous system is an essential practice for managing life’s stresses and fostering resilience. Stress often manifests subtly, leaving us feeling stuck in survival modes like fight, flight, or freeze. These patterns can stem from unmet needs for connection and safety, leading to beliefs and coping mechanisms that disconnect us from our true selves. A reset involves calming the nervous system, shifting from overdrive to a state of ease and growth. Tools like somatic therapies, nature walks, journaling, and social connections can help release unhelpful narratives and restore balance. By prioritizing resets, we transition from merely surviving to thriving.

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares how somatic therapy and body-based interventions can be supportive resources for healing attachment wounds. Attachment wounds can show up in all sorts of ways – difficulty trusting others, fear of intimacy, or a constant feeling of being on guard. But the good news: these wounds can heal.

Anxiety is a relentless and exhausting companion, always future-tripping and planning the next decade of my life. She makes food choices challenging, taking me away from listening to my hunger and instead pausing in front of the fridge in analysis paralysis. But Anxiety is also my friend, a soldier who has made me respond quickly to things, think on my feet, and take some chances.

Around this time of year, the pressure to change and do more is omnipresent. As New Year goals and Words of the Year make their way around, it can be familiar to want to push yourself to achieve, master, and overcome.

Through my observations, I want to share with you this week on what I know about how our bodies respond to our mental health and how we can use this to our advantage for better health.

Leading up to that traumatic event I had missed opportunities to clear out some of my usual stressful clutter. Then after the event still kept missing the opportunities. Or not creating the opportunities.

I immediately began doing research on somatic psychotherapy interventions. Intended for trauma relief, somatic therapies were created in an effort to support individuals struggling with dysfunctional lifestyles, flashbacks, intimacy issues and emotional difficulties.

That body intelligence not only has a seat at the table, it has an equal seat at the table with my brain intelligence and my emotional intelligence.

This study aims to determine if yoga is beneficial as a treatment for individuals with mental health disorders. This research explores different studies that have been done involving yoga with anxiety, depression, PTSD and schizophrenia.

“What do I want?”

This was the question that I landed on after a long-winded (and not fully formed) internal dialogue I had with myself about how life is unfair, how living intentionally is one way of trying to even that out, and how to live intentionally you need awareness about yourself, your situation, your needs, your wants.

We all know that as we get busier, feeling whole-body calm is more difficult. As adrenalin builds and cortisol increases, our bodies are preparing for a major offensive.

Have you been avoiding trying meditation or yoga because you:

- are afraid you’ll look weird?

- don’t know what you’re doing?

- don’t want to wear tight clothing?

- worried you’re too out of shape?