Somatic Healing Is Being Hijacked by “Safety”

Safety has become the highest virtue. That can actually get somebody stuck in

chronic survival mode, and if people are trying to placate or soften those edges,

you may never encourage that person to move out of that space. The problem is if

we're not careful, safety itself becomes an idol, and when safety becomes your

idol, all of your growth absolutely stops.

Your brain is wired for deception, but here's the truth. Patterns can be broken.

The code can be written. Once you hear the truth, you can't go back. So the only

question is, are you ready to listen?

You've probably heard the word soma, or somatic, and surely somatic healing is

having a big moment. And depending on who you're listening to, it's either the

missing key to all trauma recovery, or it's a bunch of incense, vague metaphors,

and of course our Instagram therapy. You're probably hearing things like the

body keeps score, your trauma is stored in your tissues, or the issues are in

your tissues, and your nervous system just needs safety. But rarely do you hear

how, through what mechanism, what exactly is the soma? How does this connect

to neuroscience, to memory encoding, and even to biblical renewal? I'm a deeply

spiritual person, but I also try not to ever be vague. I also try never to reduce

the body to simply chemistry or float it off into mysticism as a whole. I try to

integrate the two, show the bridge between the spiritual world and the scientific

world. So if we're going to talk about somatic healing, I would love to

understand the nature and the architecture of it as a human being. So not from an

anti-science perspective, but also not from an anti-spiritual perspective. I do

see somatic healing as a sacred science. The word soma in Greek means the body

living in its wholeness. Not just muscle, not just nerves, not just symptoms, but

the body as a felt or lived experience. To be is to experience. And you can't

experience anything without embodiment. Every second, three domains of

perception are running simultaneously. X-terroception is when we're taking

in cues from our outside world. In-terroception is when we're listening to cues

that are happening inside of our body. And proprioception is where you are in

time and space. Your brain is constantly integrating these three domains. And

reality is not simply something that is observed. It's also constructed

and you know extensively from episodes on this podcast that the brain acts as

a filter or a lens. Stimulus comes in, the brain then categorizes it or defines

it. The nervous system then is going to signal the body. Emotion is generated,

meaning is assigned. Your somatic experience is not passive. It is actively

participating in your perception of reality, which means that your body is not

reacting to objective reality. It's actively interpreting it. And that

distinction changes everything you know about memory encoding, nervous system

regulation, and somatic healing. If you go deeper on the topic of memory, it's

important to remember that it's not just simply narrative recall. Memory is

actually neuronal reactivation. When an experience happens, clusters of

neurons inside of your body are firing. And if it happens repeatedly, these

connections strengthen neurons that fire together, wire together. But here's

the missing piece that many people are skipping. Not all experiences wire

equally. Emotion absolutely determines priority of memory. This is something

that we call emotional tagging hypothesis in the scientific world.

Emotionally intense experiences get tagged by the brain as important. Think

fear, shame, rejection, even exhilaration, and of course, humiliation. One

emotional arousal is high, the amygdala activates. Stress hormones increase

and the hippocampus prioritizes memory encoding. Emotion acts as a

highlighter. It tells the brain, store this, tie this to a very specific childhood

memory. Think emotionally charged experiences times when things felt

unpredictable or unstable. Conditional love that felt transactional, volatility

and consistency, each one of these moments become tagged and therefore

prioritized. And when they get tagged repeatedly, the brain starts to predict

them and don't get it twisted, the brain's primary job actually is prediction.

So when the brain predicts something, the body actually gets in line and starts

preparing for it. And this is before your conscious mind is even able to intervene.

Your heart rate gets elevated, your muscles start to brace, your breathing gets

shallow. Maybe you start to notice some symptoms in your gut, maybe you

clench your jaw. The soma is what encodes the rule, not just the singular

event. The rule might be conflict equals abandonment. If I'm in the spotlight,

I'm in danger. Love is only available to me if I perform. Being at peace isn't

safe. And boy, can I align with that one? The body organizes these emotionally

tagged rules, and it isn't happening on a purely mystical or spiritual level.

It's happening in a very real neurochemical predictive data-driven level.

Interrelception is your body's awareness of its internal state.

So think heart rate, temperature, breath, tension. Your brain is taking in low

level interrelseptive input and it's converting it into meaning. A great way

to look at this would be if you are running on a treadmill and you're

increasing the speed on your treadmill, right? You're going to like 7.5.

Because you know you're putting up the speed, you're expecting your heart rate to raise.

So as you're starting to become aware interrelseptively of your heart rate going up,

you're also simultaneously defining that as rational. I know I'm putting the speed up,

so my heart rate should go up. But for those of you that may ever have smoked weed,

and this happened to me when I was a teenager, I smoked weed, I think I already had heightened

interrelception. All I could do was fixate on the sound of my heartbeat. And guess what?

The more I thought about it, the higher it went up and then I'm like, but I'm just sitting here.

Oh my god, I'm in danger. Am I having a heart attack? No, I'm not having a heart attack.

What's happened is I'm fixating on an interrelseptive input. And because to my mind,

it seems out of place for the context in which I find myself in, I'm now deciding I'm in

grave danger and I have to panic. But on the treadmill, you completely brush past it because it

makes sense to you. So this is where the same actions or the same sort of interrelseptive awareness

can split into either I'm safe or I'm in danger when really nothing is different. The only

thing that is different is how you interpret it. When we're looking at early experiences that are

tagged for threat activation of that threat response will always trigger you to feel unsafe.

And I bring this up for a very specific reason because I think the word safety gets very much

weaponized in our world today. Everything is about safety and cultivating safety. I'm a firm

believer that safety is an inside job. And when we think about how many things our brain is going

to tag with that threat response, it's very common that you may feel unsafe in a situation that

is objectively totally safe. While in a situation that if we actually look at the math, you might be

more statistically likely to die. If you've convinced yourself that this is not a threat even if

statistically or more likely to die in that scenario, you will feel safe. What's the truth?

The truth is that safety has everything to do with perception and it's not always going to be

tied to objective reality. So I want everyone to keep this in mind because we're going to pull

this threat a little bit later in the episode because I think to me, one of the most dangerous

pieces of somatic healing and how it's pitched online in particular and Instagram is just this

conversation around safety leading us to I think not step into pattern opposition and true

healing which ultimately could create real safety and instead we're outsourcing it to something

externalized. It's also important for us to think about the connection of fascia in the somatic

healing experience. So fascia is our interconnected web of tissue that runs through your entire body.

It's richly integrated so there's lots of nerve endings in it and it responds to mechanical

stress and it will remodel based on repeated tension states. Repeated contraction patterns are

going to actually influence how your collagen is formed, mechanical forces are then going to

influence your structure. So a great way of looking at this would be if your body went into a

specific position when you experienced a trauma, you can have two things happen. Let's say that

happened when you were 16. When you're now let's say arbitrarily 32 years old and you experience a

repeat of that trauma, your body may actually return to that position because that's where the

memory is stored. So even without thinking about it you might be holding yourself in a specific

position that is exactly where your body and fascia and soma experience to that trauma as a 16

year old. But now you're 32 and your body just naturally went back to that state. That's one

way that this can happen. What's also interesting about tension memory is as a 32 year old you may

not be activated in the same trauma but let's say that you just so happen to get yourself into

the same body position. The body may also then trigger the trauma because of the position you

just navigated into. So it's important for us to understand that interconnected relationship

between what our body and brain are encoding from memory and what sort of tension position we

are in at the time and that that can go both ways. One can trigger the trauma or the trigger

of the trauma can put the body into its sort of tension memory state. So when you experience

memory often it does change your body position right you might brace you might all the sudden

clench your jaw. This absolutely is coming from our connection to our fascia system.

So to be really precise here repeated stress signals changes in your tissue behavior.

Your fascia is very much shaped by how you breathe how you brace how you respond how you think

for those of you that have ever done my somatic movement practitioner training. One of the series

that we teach is called respond react which helps you actually map how your protective response

either fight flight freeze fawn flop exists in your tension memory and it shows you some very

powerful ways to move an opposition to those patterns as you're retraining your brain to think

differently. So I want to keep in mind when we're talking about words like that fight flight freeze

fawn flop we're very much talking about how intentional memory and our somatic experience maps

in with our fashion or memory encoding. So I want you to keep this in mind everyone has very specific

ways that their body will respond to stress. This is something that took me honestly way too long

to notice but if I look back many of you know that I struggled with a really intense panic attacks

from roughly 9 to 19 and it took me years to realize that actually when I would start cracking my

neck that was probably a good sign I was trending toward a panic attack right because the first

thing that would happen is that I'd crunch my jaw and then all of my neck muscles would start to

tighten and that sort of tension would then compress my C spine and then I'd feel the urge to

crack my neck as everything was like pulling down. Now obviously I know those physical signs so I

know to oppose them long before my nervous system and fascia ever get to that place.

So let's talk about dysregulation. I think this is another one of those terms that people kind of

float around and not everybody knows exactly what dysregulation is. I used to work in a clinical

environment with teens who were struggling with mental health issues of all kinds and they would

throw around this. I'm just dysregulated. I'm just dysregulated and it was kind of like a get out

of jail free card if they said they were dysregulated they kind of got a pass from whatever it was

that they didn't want to do and to me this kind of parallels this idea of weaponizing the word

safety in the somatic healing space. These words have truth in this conversation but if you can use

them as a get out of jail free card or to not step into the pattern opposition that would be

required to heal then they actually holds you back rather than help you. So dysregulation

is real but it's not actually a root cause it's actually a downstream effect of a root cause.

The cause is actually how your memory encoded in the first place which is why I always tell

people in break method you are only chemically imprinted with what you perceive happen to you.

So like what your mom says happened or what your dad says happened doesn't matter at all.

It in fact sadly objective reality doesn't matter at all. Even if what you experienced and then

in turn encoded into your memory is completely wildly untrue you are still imprinted with it.

So it feels true to you and if we are going to do the somatic healing work that is required to

unwind those patterns we have to know what you imprinted rather than the objective truth right

and I just put air quotes for those of you that are listening to the audio episode.

When we build an entire healing philosophy around avoiding things that feel unsafe or being able

to just use the word I'm dysregulated and get out of having to step into the discomfort we're

actually reinforcing the original encoding we're letting the brain body soma connection actually get

away with it. What feels safe is almost always simply what feels familiar and what feels familiar

comes absolutely from your childhood adaptations. So in a way we have to remember that true healing

is not eliminating activation. It's increasing resilience when faced with activation and learning

how to navigate through that activation to build new patterns right to learn how to self-regulate.

The nervous system recalibrates when it experiences something. Activation without collapse with a new

outcome. This actually reconsolidates memory. So this is actually how we update our neural networks.

You have to go through it and reorganize and redefine with that resilience piece so that you can

reconsolidate because that is part of the process of healing and again if you're allowed to use

words like I feel unsafe or I'm dysregulated without having to be encouraged to move into and

through that you're going to hold yourself stuck in sort of this familiar safety net.

I want to talk a little bit about movement neural plasticity because I think this is really important

and especially right now it seems like I don't know the nitty-gritty of it but I see a lot of

posts right now about polyvagal theory and there are a lot of people that are like you can't take

that study seriously like polyvagal theory has so much like there's so much impact on my clients

so they've got the people that are kind of like proponents of polyvagal theory and then any of

the people right now that are very harshly criticizing polyvagal theory on Instagram because supposedly

there was a scientific study that came out that basically debunked the evidence-based validity

of polyvagal theory. I think you guys know how I feel about scientific studies and one thing I will

say is looking because we've we've done some of this with break method the clinical study environment

in a lot of ways I know that the whole goal is to kind of make it systematic and

incorruptible and blah blah blah but what ends up happening is then you you take away the ability

to mimic real life right in crafting the study you're taking really someone out of their real life

environment and you're you know and I understand why but to create this sort of uniform experience

to really air quotes test sometimes you're going to alter the experience because you're putting people

into an unnatural sort of structure. So it does seem that you know while the people that are

you know science is a god are saying polyvagal theory is debunked would say obviously I'm not

an expert in polyvagal theory but there seem to be years and years of stories of profound healing

and awareness that have come from polyvagal theory. So this is just a great example of

when a scientific study comes out and kind of you know debunk something does that mean that it's

no longer valid? I personally lean on how many people's lives has it helped? How how has it helped

clinicians inform their practice because I think there's a lot of there's a lot of goodness that

can come from something even if people go out of their way to try to attack it and debunk it through

a clinical studies. So one of the things that we want to look at is that when we're looking at

things like movement right and I know somatic my somatic movement practitioner program very much

as movement based you're integrating proprioception right like where your body is in space what you're

aware of internally as your body is moving through space and you're also getting vagal tone

synaptic plasticity you're also being able to think about your thinking so you're simultaneously

as you're doing all these things you're shifting yourself out of that amygdala activation and you're

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This is a really profound very whole experience for somebody to come out of a trauma response.

Is it possible that doing all of these things in a clinical study environment didn't quite

translate because a clinical study environment is not necessarily conducive to things that are a

little bit more natural and organic and multifaceted possibly? So I think it's important for

my rest. Remember that if you've gotten caught in some of that sort of like great divide on

polyvagal theory don't be so quick to get caught into the device of narrative even if that

clinical study somewhat invalidates the evidence base of it and what it was built on. That doesn't

mean that there aren't still some amazing nuggets to grab from it and that you should kind of turn

your nose up at it. I think everything is worth looking into with a fresh set of eyes and while

again I'm not an expert in polyvagal theory I think it very much kind of parallels or comes

alongside a lot of the work that we naturally do in our somatic movement practitioner training

which ultimately we have to integrate all these systems as we are recoding the memory or

reconciledating the memory and ultimately when we do this correctly that is neuroplasticity. We are

able to change both the physical patterns but more how the physical patterns are tied to the

fascia patterns how the fascia patterns are tied to the way the memories being encoded and when

you can get the body to a place where it can actually release the physical energetic spiritual

pattern while you're helping them cognitively through metacognition reorganize intellectually

what that memory is the type of profound healing you experience I've never seen anything like it

and it it's so fast because what ends up happening is if you kind of get to the right cluster

with all of these systems integrated at the right time there can be such an intense ripple quite

literally through time space that I've seen a client in literally one session completely change so

much about their life what their lived experiences and their body their choices so don't be so quick

to jump on that bandwagon and be like this is all hogwash like there are lots of things on Instagram

about this that to me are more on that hogwash side but that doesn't mean throw it all out there's

so much here that I think is critically important for us in the healing experience and I think

there does need to be this bridge you know like the work that I do in break method is very

heavy and academic and very like mental health cognitive focused but the somatic movement piece

is really important for a lot of people because and I think for example this is the reason that

booty which has always been a somatic practice has helped so many people heal the way that you are

organizing your body and your retraining your thoughts and your movement patterns as as you

were experiencing this sort of like healing uplifting experience it can move people out of profound

trauma without ever stepping foot in a therapist office right so there's a there's a time and a

place in an application for so many different things and I I hate to see certain things

divided or over generalized right like somatic being like overly woo woo and weird and kind of

forgetting about the real grounded science involved in it or again this sort of like it's anti-scientific

and now it's not evidence based just read my paper right I think there's there's so much more to it

than that but I do want to call really clear attention to what I think is the biggest current

issue in the somatic space right now which I mentioned earlier which is that safety has become

the highest virtue and virtually everything gets filtered through this word safety does your body

feel safe only move toward what feels safe don't activate yourself honor your nervous system

and I'm certainly not saying that there isn't a time and a place for these things but that can

actually get somebody stuck in chronic survival mode and if people are trying to play K or or

soften those edges you may never encourage that person to move out of that space and I think this

largely one of my biggest criticisms of many trauma-informed practices is that you often end up

allowing a client to stay stuck on repeat far longer than they actually needed to stay stuck there

and again I'm I'm not saying that there isn't a time and a place example if somebody just

experienced some sort of brutal sexual trauma I'm certainly not saying that like three days later

is the time like all right buck up buttercup time to pull out of this that's not what I'm saying

but I think far too often in this space we've allowed people to kind of align with their victim

story and unfortunately put up these bumpers and safeguards and we don't encourage them out of

their at a specific time so the problem is if we're not careful safety itself becomes an idol and

I've absolutely seen this word safety become an idol in the somatic space but kind of just like

in mental health honestly as a whole and when safety becomes your idol all of your growth

absolutely stops because as I mentioned what feels safe is really often just familiar and what

feels familiar means that it is directly tied to the original pattern if you grew up in chaos

calm feels unsafe if you grew up performing love rest feels safe if you grew up constantly

bracing for impact while vulnerability is surely not on the table for you so if we teach people

only to move toward what feels safe you're usually reinforcing the exact emotional tag that's

actually begging for you to dismantle it safety if you outsource it externally becomes another form

of control control over your environment control over people control over your triggers control over

tone control over exposure control control control but that isn't actually regulation at all

emotional regulation and self-regulation and emotional resiliency those all actually are

supposed to go together and when you're trying to control and put up buffers you're not actually

doing that you're usually creating a system that's far more dependent because true regulation

is not fragile and it does not require the world to cooperate with you you go out into the world

in break method I always remind people you cannot rewire a trigger if you refuse to be exposed to

it it's literally not possible in your head you might really like nail the landing but that's

all hypothetical what happens when you actually go do it it's probably not going to happen the way

you imagined in your head you have to do it you have to do it some more and you have to do it some more

when you embrace those triggers and you embrace opportunities to step into fear you're able

to not only rewire but you're able to build a whole lot of confidence and capability around

those skills I use the term with my husband all the time fear dates and he started using it back

to me the other day he's like I'm going out to breakfast with this guy this morning like yeah I'm

just really trying to challenge myself to go on some fear dates and I'm like yes it's working

for those of you that are aware of places that you actively try to avoid or in your mind justify

as not being important I encourage you spend a week pick three things that typically you would

avoid or justify or minimize and challenge yourself to go do precisely those things and watch

what happens because when you're stepping out of those comfort zones into something and break method

that we call rebellion zones you do rewire and you do realize there's a whole lot more out there

that actually could wildly change your life if you could stop falling victim to yourself

deception that keeps you in this little loop true regulation is coming from your internal

authority and if you're outsourcing it to something else well you're making me feel unsafe

you're not realizing that again safety is an inside job I can learn to feel safe even around people

who are objectively not safe so in a way regulation is our capacity to experience activation

without collapsing into your old childhood rules and this is why it is so important that we embrace

strategic pattern opposition you will not heal a pattern by feeding it with comfort and safety

you heal a pattern by very carefully and strategically confronting it I'm not encouraging you

to be reckless but incredibly intentional if your body learns something like conflict equals

abandonment then healing means that you cannot avoid conflict you have to go into it equipped with

a very clear strategy it's experiencing the conflict and knowing on the other side not only

are going to survive it but you're going to learn new skills to navigate conflict if your body

learned that visibility is going to equal danger for you then healing is not actually being a

wall flower staying in the background it's expanding it's working on your self-regulation skills so

that you can step boldly out front and center and learn that on the other side you're going to be

just fine even if you navigate a little bit of embarrassment every time you repeat it you're going

to get better at it then healing is releasing control in measured ways and watching how your nervous

system is able to recalibrate things that once made my nervous system react they don't have

into me anymore I'm able to stay calm and regulated in situations where as a 20 something I never

would have been able to stay calm and regulated and in fact this is an interesting little tidbit

I threw my back out for a few days just from being on so many planes and walking around and

heal as my back went into like a full blown spasm and I was in so much pain and it put me on so

much edge that I remembered what it was like to basically be old me because my emotional

regulation skills were severely lacking my husband made like a little jab at me and typically

this would not bother me at all and actually it wasn't even a little jab never mind I remember what

it was I went out of my way to try making this really special dinner and I went on Pinterest and

I figured out how to make these soy sauce cured egg yolks that you could put on a crispy rice cake

it's like a Japanese delicacy and it's like a two day long procedure and I was so excited

to have Gordon taste my egg yolk and he said something like because I'm like holding it out to me

he's like no baby I'm not eating that on your fingers or something and I typically I would have

been like whatever and eating it myself and not cared but because I was in so much back pain

and I wasn't operating in the way that I am typically my eyes started to well up with tears

but thankfully I started to laugh at myself and I'm like oh my god I am in so much pain that this

is like what it feels like to be a regular human because I'm usually so far beyond these sort

of emotional reactions that this is like it brought me right back to my mid 20s where I was

actually sensitive and easily triggered so it just goes to show when you're doing this work and you

can get yourself out of these things resilience ultimately resilience and peace right like the

resilience and peace sandwich is what you're able to achieve on the other side of this work

but it's never going to come from not doing the work right putting up bumpers or telling people

like that offends me or I don't like it when you act that way sometimes we have to figure out

why am I why am I reacting to what you just did and and are is what you're doing objectively wrong

or do I also have to kind of learn to like toughen up or maybe advocate for myself in a way that's

more productive if we're able to just kind of get out of having to face some of these hardships and

we don't have to move through the emotional reactivity we don't ever really learn how to get to the

other side in a more corrected integrated experience so I'm just sharing that because it was kind

of an interesting one for me to kind of remember what it was like and the good news is when you get

to the other side of a lot of this work resilience and peace really pay dividends in today's world

because our world is hard especially if you have a social media presence things are challenging

people are always kind of like coming for you and trying to start drama being able to maintain

that sort of internal peace and regulation is such a gift and I would love all of you to have

access to it and going in line with a program that I know you guys know I launched a few weeks ago

my renew your mind program which is on you can get to it on either my show notes or on my Instagram

URL a lot of what we're talking about there's what the biblical principles are of neuroscience and how

in the Bible pretty much everything we know about neuroscience and rewiring was already written

on the Bible long before we could prove it with imaging and scientific studies and I think in tandem

with this it's important for us to remember faith right faith is a key component of renewal

and going back to this idea of somatic experience and kind of I think this hijacking or corruption

around safety is faith is being able to trust that God has something for you even if the situation

that it looks like you're in feels scarier unsafe right so in a way I think to truly activate

faith and to step into that place of renewal you have to be able to build skills that allow you to

willingly put yourself into situations that might not feel safe to you but might be an absolute

gift for you in the long run so this is something that I think about a lot because it does make me

sad how many people have kind of bought into this like cut out toxic people safety narrative

and they miss all these opportunities I think to heal in a really profound way but more importantly

from a spiritual level to learn how to access faith one example I was thinking about the other day was

and I think this is just it's an interesting dichotomy as a child you guys know that I had really

bad panic attacks right I was having panic attacks largely because I didn't trust my parents I

didn't trust their decision making in my day to day environment but then when I would be completely

on my own and separated somehow magically then I was fine it was really only being subject to my

parents emotions and decision making that activated my panic disorder but then when I was totally

by myself I'd like magically have these moments of being fine because there are these things that

don't really line like why would you be like that and then also be out at raves Friday and Saturday

night traveling all over the place right one they that feels unsafe right so this just goes to show

when I was I was thinking about this when I was probably like 15 15 16 years old I was often at

raves every Friday and Saturday night I grew up on the east coast so I was either at raves in

New York City or like I mean one of the places that we used to go all the time was in Camden

New Jersey which is so dangerous you guys but like New Jersey Boston Worcester like just going all

over always at a rave but very frequently I was going out late in the night in New York City and

I would take the lash train home which typically I think the lash train home was at like three in

the morning or something maybe even slightly later it's been a long time I'm turning 41 but

there would be so many times that I would take the lash train home by myself so like little 15 year

old busy by myself and what I made a point of doing almost every time is I would stay outside of

Grand Central Station and I would get Duncan Donuts and Cash to homeless people and drug addicts

that were on the street and I would literally talk to them about God and I would get there early

so that I could have like a solid one hour at least conversation I had some really deep conversations

with people on the street I'd have my you know I think back then I was like a light in sweet like

ice coffee that was like this big I don't even want to know how many calories was in that thing

but I would have these deep conversations now objectively was that an unsafe situation like if

I really looked at the crime statistics and data was that unsafe yes but I didn't feel at all

unsafe in that situation I was in full surrender I'm like God's got me I'm having these conversations

in those ways I was able to access faith and not fall victim to what the circumstance might

appear like and was able to just kind of trust the process then in a stupid situation at home I'd

be like completely panicking because I just for me what made me feel most unsafe was being around

my parents so this just shows this whole point of our desire to stay safe and controlled is

completely antagonistic to faith so if accessing faith and surrender which largely I think are

required for you to eventually get to a place of full renewal and peace are not available to you

right now this sort of conversation around somatic work I think is incredibly important and this is

why obviously I built the somatic movement practitioner training and I actually this summer

have a version of somatic movement practitioner training that is launching it'll launch right

after renew your mind is done and it's called embodied renewal and it'll be kind of a piggybacking

of renew your mind and the biblical principles specifically with the somatic movement practitioner

training if you've already taken the somatic movement practitioner training you will have access to

embodied renewal completely for free if this is your first time engaging in this work I'm going to be

putting together a whole landing page that gives you a ton of information about embodied renewal

but I think it's really important that we understand Biblically that God wants to redeem our time

and the desire of God Biblically is for us to be fully restored and set free with a completely

renewed mind and in doing so you should be able to actually let and let all of those old narratives

and stories go but more importantly let them go from your somatic experience and from your physical

body so this is a great training for people who are wanting to focus on where the physical meets

the spiritual because as I mentioned with intentional memory like this is this is a real thing and

this is often the root cause of repetitive injuries chronic disease autoimmune disease

even for me like throughout my life the amount of times I've rolled my right foot and then eventually

like broke my right foot from rolling my right foot it's like my body has everyone's body has a

specific way that they go out of balance and in all of these training modalities we're really

focusing on what the physically manifested pattern is and what memories are associated with that

physical pattern so that you're restoring the physical pattern as you're recoding and renewing

that memory because I really do believe from a biblical perspective when God says that we are called

to become a new creation we really are meant to become completely brand new where the stuff that

happened to you or that you did feel so separate of who you are that you feel completely freed from

it and a large part of I think that work has to do with addressing the somatic experience in a way

that is not about putting up bumpers and keeping yourself safe but instead actually generating

safety from the inside building your internal authority and remembering that this is a really

sacred science right like our our body is part of our temple and we have to learn how to bring about

that full restoration because I mean that's the work that I think people need the absolute most

so I hope this episode helps you understand that the somatic is not just this sort of mystical

woo piece but it's also not just the mechanical pieces it's to me evidence of an intentional

creator and intentional designer that built us to have this profound holistic experience

but also the tools to get in there and make sure that we can become truly restored and renewed

and that is the work that I love doing and there will certainly be more coming out about embodied

renewal and if you have not yet joined us for a new your mind access is open forever we'd love

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