Patterns & Practices
Seeking Balance:
A key to Somatic Coaching
Our world is ruled by cognitive dissonance, governed by those who will avoid accountability at all costs. It's a challenge to thrive in a world obsessed with assimilation and toxic positivity. To compensate, we create our patterns over time in sharp bursts, beginning in-utero, tailoring them to our surroundings.
As we grow and learn, we begin to rely on coping mechanisms to keep us safe. Our body's main job is to find homeostasis - or balance within all things.
As the challenges and trials we face ebb and flow, the decisions we make and the coping mechanisms become habits, we may find that our coping strategies don't work in every scenario; and why would they? Why would a single solution solve the complex puzzles within our environments and our psyches?
Enter the social and societal expectations that "a single pill can solve any trouble, problem, or paint. The challenge with society demanding that there be One Right Thing™ to heal everything, is that few of us live simple enough lives to find ease in every circumstance with the same coping mechanism. Expired habits can hold people back in a thousand small ways that remain unnoticed until they're gone, and it feels as though a weight has been lifted
Enter Shadow Work.
Shadow work is the process of exploring the pieces of ourselves that are often hard to look at. The goal of doing an internal review of our thoughts, challenging emotions, and shame, is to eradicate their negative effects in our lives and to integrate the separate parts of ourselves into one whole.
Without exploring shadow work, that is, without dealing with the emotions and negative self talk that you carry around within you. Those with trauma are hard pressed to accomplish any positive growth throughout their lives. Too many are struggling in the briars in a rush to blaze up the mountain, when there is a gently sloping paths being ignored nearby.
Sometimes generations of trauma are as simple to shake off as the emptying of a tea cup
Other afflictions require sacrifice to be evicted; sweat, tears,
& intentional effort must be called upon
Coping mechanisms are only good, so long as they function healthily within the life you've created
Come sit and talk with me about your life.
It is possible to
metamorphose trauma
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis
As without, so too, within
Yes, changing systems is inevitably a part of creating positive change in your life and the lives of those around you
Patterns of the Body
Trauma & other emotional experiences are also stored in the body.
More on this later...
Patterns of Spirit
Once a body has a safe place, the spirit wants to be involved in breaking patterns and creating new practices
more on this later...