Join us as we explore how new findings in neurology, psychology, resilience studies, composition studies, the science of creativity, narrative studies and somatic education, including the Feldenkrais Method®, offer a host of new options to resolve traumatic grief. How do we transition from trauma into transformation? How can we use our greatest wounds as a catalyst for a return to love?
As a FELDENKAIS® practitioner, I knew the power of emotions could cause physical pain long before the traumatic experience of losing my daughter to a drug overdose happened to me. What was less clear until I experienced it myself, was the havoc trauma causes to the entire system: hormones, sleep disturbances, exhaustion and suspicion. In this episode, gain clarity about how to realize a new freedom from loss.
Episode 3 – Grief Makes Us Smaller
One of the somatic consequences of grief is that we shrink from the world. We don’t just tend to isolate, we physically shrink, as if that could protect us from harm. This is not something we can make an impact on by simply stretching muscles because it’s a response from within the nervous system. To address this primal sense of feeling unsafe, persecuted, violated…the approach must go far deeper, and be much more subtle. What can we do to alleviate this symptom of grief that effectively keeps us from living life with the innocence and trust which characterizes how we were when we first came into the world?
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