Functional freeze is a nervous system experience that occurs when we are in fight, flight, and collapse simultaneously, with little access to the ventral vagal (safety) branch of our nervous system. What this looks like in our day-to-day experience is a constant sense of overwhelm, like you can’t possibly take on more, AND a constant sense of urgency to do more anyway.
Read More✨Somatics✨ is a trendy word these days and yet I often find that folks have only a vague sense of what it means. This makes so much sense because people are often using it to talk about anything that has to do with the body…and there are a thousand and one ways to work with the territory of our soma so it can all feel a bit confusing…
Read MoreThis somatic meditation, based on the work of Kathy Kain and Alaine Duncan, can help our nervous system shift into a more easeful parasympathetic response - helping our body to choose relaxing instead of bracing.
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