If you choose to turn to a yoga practice on your healing journey, there are a couple of elements that can contribute to a soothing, grounding, healing experience and prevent you from experiencing triggers during your practice. They are all part of what is called trauma-sensitive yoga.
Read MoreWe live in a time that triggers deep childhood wounds and trauma on a daily basis. Every day is bathed in uncertainty and you are challenged to ground yourself within.
Not only do you need to find ways to self-regulate and step out of fear to think clearly, sleep well, or connect with others. Finding ways to calm the nervous system down is probably the best thing you can do for your own health today, because fear weakens the immune system.
Read MoreSleep is essential for healing and wellbeing. During your sleep your body gets to regenerate, heal, detox, recover from the day. Cell regeneration, promoted by the so-called “growth hormone” mostly happens during the REM phase of your sleep, which is the deepest sleep and the time you are dreaming. Under normal circumstances, your brain processes your day and everything that happened during your sleep. It makes new connections and transforms negative thoughts and sensations into lessons learned during the deep sleep phase (called REM). But why is sleep an issue when you’ve made traumatic experiences? And what is the role of sleep in trauma recovery?
Read MoreTrauma still has a reputation of being something haunting, dark, an almost abstract thing that we humans only go through when faced with extreme situations. What do you immediately associate trauma with, if someone was to ask you what it was about?
Read MoreWe heal in community, because community provides the space for us to show up wholly, to practice setting boundaries, to learn about ourselves and our needs and communicating them. Willingness to comprimise is an essential, but willingness to compromise ourselves is misery.
Read MoreΗolistic healing from trauma and chronic stress means to take care of oneself with the help of lifestyle changes, too. Integrating grounding hobbies and activities in your life is so important to support yourself on this journey. There are so many beautiful ways of finding that stillness. It may seem insignificant today, but it has the power to make a difference the moment you let yourself have this space. And every day that follows.
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