Welcome to The Work IN!
Trauma Release Exercise: What is it good for?
The whole purpose behind the Work IN is to help people find ways to work with and through their own body to heal stress injury, lower anxiety, and in general feel more comfortable in their own skin.
In my online studio I teach courses and memberships that use a type of exercise called trauma release exercise
Hope & Healing part 2: A mother’s road to recovery
Part 2 of my interview with parent coach Brenda Zane, we discuss therapy Al-anon, The craft system. And then, of course, her community, this stream, and how that community is helping moms of teens in and out of active substance abuse in amazing and powerful ways. So let's get started with our work in today.
Hope & Healing Part 1: How substance use becomes trauma with Brenda Zane
The neurologist, you know, just kept coming into his room saying this can't be possible, that he is alive and that he's functioning and his ECGs are coming back normal. So, I consider myself the luckiest mom in the world. So I, I just feel like I need to use that experience to help other parents who are going through that whether you've just found a little bit of marijuana in your kids backpack or a bottle, an empty bottle of vodka in their room, too, you know I've got a kid on the streets, who's doing heroin.
External Regulation: From the outside in
External regulation happens through that somatic side of our nervous system. In other words we introduce something outside of ourselves to affect our internal state and there are a lot of different categories, some are more socially acceptable than others as you’ll see.
Safe Self Regulation: What does that even mean?
safe self regulation lives in that in between space that overlaps between the somatic and the autonomic. And this is where we can actually get in to the nervous system, it's where a lot of our best safe self regulation tools lie. We have this beautiful harmony between our reflexive actions to the world, and the deliberate actions that we can choose in response to our perception of the world. And that is really important to remember as we are trying to develop a toolbox or an arsenal of ways to handle all of our experiences, past, present and future, and to build and retrain resilience, especially if we're coming out of a place where we have felt stuck or disconnected
Resilience: Physical fitness for your nervous system
We can't remove all of the challenges, all of the triggers that we could possibly come into contact with simply to make ourselves feel more resilient because resilience isn't about being calm all the time. Resilience is about rising to the challenge whatever it is, and then coming back to our calm. And if we want to get better at doing that, then we need to practice doing that.