Tag: healing

Freeze trauma response

frozen river photo taken by Monica Cassani for Freeze trauma response

It seems that a lot of peoples most common trauma response is *freeze*. Americans feel helpless. Learned helplessness might also be considered a trauma freeze response. The first action one must take is to become aware of the potential for freezing. Once you recognize it you can start listening to the freeze and responding to your own body and how it wants/needs to unfreeze. It's critical that we all learn to unfreeze now. Look/feel within and follow your heart. Your heart knows the way out of freeze. Your journey out of freeze will be your own. Trust/feel your body and respond. Get creative. It's within us all. The body is the only way back to humanity.

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Recover loudly

when we recover loughly we keep others from dying quietly. for

that's right. I also wouldn't be alive if I hadn't been the voice of Beyond Meds...an early, now prototype, of all the relentless chatter out there. It's weird because it brought so much chaos as well. And I've had many tell me the words I shared altered their lives for the better. My entire life is paradoxical and I also know without my incessant need to **speak it** I would not be alive.

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Responses to chaos: swimming in the muck

photo of rocky river responses to chaos: swimming in the muck

the last thing to come when one is healing from trauma is a thick skin...it does, finally come, however. it does. really it's not thick at all. it's porous and everything becomes clear and thus it's easier to move around the chaos and muck. clarity doesn't get rid of the muck! ...

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The hungry ghosts know. Listen.

sunflower for the hungry ghosts

Somatic mysticism, diet and returning to my ancestry…. The hungry ghosts know. Listen. I like using “somatic mysticism” to explain my experience because I feel everything deeply in my body. I can feel my cells doing their work quite often and I feel all manner of metabolic movement and I feel far more than I can even begin to really know from a biological standpoint. Still when I listen and pay attention I collect data, information to act on.

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Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury

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This is my experience after what, at this point, amounts to thousands of hours of mindful presence with the chaos in my body. ~~ Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury ~~ One learns when one focuses attention. One learns a whole lot. That is meditation. Focused attention. So, my experience of chronic illness: Chronic illness is the body saying no to the toxic societal structures that we have internalized…healing from chronic illness is healing the whole human shebang. ~~ To be clear healing does not mean curing. There is no cure to this being human. ~~ ....

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Walking and yoga: video short

impressionistic-celtic-design-with-muted-psychedlic-colors AI generated

Walking and yoga: video short ~~ This video was made a few years ago. it shows how I incorporate yoga into every moment of my life. sometimes it's subtle and sometimes not. Yoga and movement can morph from distinctly hatha yoga flows. They might become more like Qigong. Later, they can even move into ecstatic dance. I use walls and furniture and door frames and trees and anything around me as props for modifications as necessary. I have not been fit nor do I look like a conventional yogi. My body is my only teacher now. Yoga seems to be in my DNA. It is, in my mind, a science of the body. Movement keeps my body going as I continue to find what healing looks like in this body.

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Narrative and story

Narrative and story are tools of interpretation. They do not and cannot represent absolute truth. Within the evolving persons life a narrative can change many times. Alternately one might apply a multitude of narratives to a single issue so that in effect one can see themselves simultaneously through many prisms/perspectives and thus have a more holistic and profound understanding of their experience. Imposing our narrative on another is violence, just as having a narrative imposed upon us can be.

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we are being called to radical alchemy

we are being called to radical alchemy. the marriage of opposites…

we are being called to radical alchemy. the marriage of opposites…healing requires bringing together a great diversity of all aspects of our lives.

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raw smoothie time

ai generated photo of a tomato and blueberry smoothie raw smoothie time

mmm... raw smoothie time ...I just made an incredible smoothie/cold soup sorta drink. It's odd, but when it gets cold at this time of year, I need these sorts of raw fruit and veg smoothies. In general cooked food is better for me, across the board...but there are periods of time in which I do a lot or all raw for brief periods. Right now this is just my lunch today. I had a pure carnivore breakfast. The infections have ruined my gut and it's often easier and better for my gut to do mono meals. ....

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Mindfulness: dangerous business

geometric design mindfulness: dangerous business

As someone who has utilized mindfulness as the cornerstone of my own healing process I have to say that what is wrong with most pop treatments of meditation in general is that they fail to warn the reality. It's taken years of profound mindfulness practice that has demanded going deep into the darkest parts of the human psyche...in this process I've learned how to listen to my body and follow my own guidance. I've learned to shut out all the multiple conditioned voices of our ugly capitalistic system and come back to myself. ... What they don't tell you is that mindfulness in process...deep profound, honest mindfulness can alienate and isolate while on the way to well-being.

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