How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

It constantly scans our environment for cues: Should I be careful here? Is this a dangerous situation? Is this person a friend or foe? Am I properly hydrated and fed to deal with any threats? The autonomic system uses something called neuroception – a ‘sixth sense’ that operates outside our conscious awareness – to assess our environment and put pe

Having a Parent Who Denies Your Reality

This emotional loneliness continues into adulthood when we repeat these patterns of emotional avoidance, shut down, and shaming.

The loneliness of feeling unseen by others is as fundamental a pain as physical injury.’31 This emotional loneliness continues into adulthood when we repeat these patterns of emotional avoidance, shut down, and shaming.

Because the vagus nerve is connected to the gut, if we have a dysregulated vagal nerve or poor vagal tone, our digestion suffers.

cycles of human emotions can be addicting too. Emotional addiction is particularly powerful when we habitually seek or avoid certain emotional states as a way to cope with trauma.

We believe that script is the true ‘us’, the Self. But that chatter is just our thoughts. We practise thoughts all day long.

DO THE WORK: BUILD CONSCIOUSNESS

As I started to shed layer after layer of ignorance about the connections among my mind, body, and soul, for the first time really witnessing myself, I began to comprehend the potential within to heal.