Hi there,
I'm Katie.
Welcome to this little chat.
So I wanted to bring up something today because I feel like it's important.
I often get comments about this here and there,
Not all the time.
But this is this possibility of sometimes feeling scared,
To slow down,
To go into the body,
To focus on your breath,
To work with your emotions,
Feel the feels and the sensations and all of that.
For nervous systems who have been stuck in high alert,
Who kind of live and navigate their life that way,
Often sometimes this is a patterning of a body that's experienced trauma,
It can be really scary sometimes to slow down,
To slow the roll,
And to get curious about what's going in,
Because all of this stuff starts to come out.
And I say this because I want you to know that it's not abnormal.
Many people experience this.
And often so much in the somatic work and nervous system world,
That's what we're trying to do is to help you have access to that stuff in a safe and supported way.
And we do that by titrating our experiences.
And that is just a fancy term for going bit by bit,
Taking things one step at a time.
We talk about that.
In the body is the wake horse that sometimes we just have to dip our toe into something just a little bit so we can kind of sense into it and work with it.
But we back up,
We slow down,
We slow our roll,
And we take it nice and slow.
Very important for nervous systems that are really over activated and been functioning that way for a really long time.
And someone might come in for somatic therapy and I'm inviting a lot of opportunities to slow down.
And for that person,
Again,
That's who's always kind of lived in that heightened sense of activation.
You know,
When we get into these techniques,
They're kind of like,
Whoa,
Whoa,
Whoa,
Wait a minute.
We're going to slow down.
We're going to do that.
I don't know if I could do that.
It's scary.
So we might work with the little drops at a time.
Instead of trying to sense into something for a certain amount of time,
We might just work with a couple seconds.
Instead of trying to go into the body and feel the feels and all of that stuff,
Right?
We might just sense the outer edge of the body,
Or just kind of what it's like to be a body in a room.
Sometimes going inside can be scary.
But we go bit by bit by bit so that you can start to say,
Oh,
OK,
This is OK.
I can be with at least this for a moment.
And so that starts to grow.
Maybe the next time you can be with a little bit longer or be with it in a different more supportive way and it starts to grow and we build this.
You know,
Wider capacity to be with our sensations,
Our experience,
Our life.
So I guess this is kind of like my little public service announcement.
Because I see the comments sometimes and I realize how hard you might be working to try to find calm in your nervous system and for some reason you might be struggling.
So I just wanted to name this out loud today.
So that you know you're not alone.
Other folks experience this too,
And there's a way out.
You just gotta baby step it.
Just baby step it.
That's what we do here.
That was supportive.
Thank you so much for being here.
I wish you well.
