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Healing Trauma: Wild Animals Know the Secret

Your Body’s Natural Organic Wisdom Scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the way animals in the wild let go of fear and stress. Because they are able to release it and move on, they are free of PTSD like symptoms. Without this ability in the wild, they would wander around shut down, uptight or confused . . . and…
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Is It Really Procrastination

Is It Really Procrastination?

“I was going to put this newsletter out last week . . .” Do you know the feeling? Maybe you find yourself getting behind. You tell yourself you’re going to tackle those projects, but you flip on the TV and next thing you know hours have passed. You get mad at yourself and vow to start again tomorrow. Creative ideas…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Dancing with Your Inner Critic : Question Your Thoughts

Inner CriticYou know that grating critical voice inside that points out all your mistakes. Calls you stupid? It’s the first to tell you that ” you’ll never succeed.” It sounds like someone you’d like to get rid of, right? It turns out that the Inner Critic’s “perspective” arises from our nervous system simply trying to protect us. Only it’s not…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Anger, Thunder, and Healing: Making Friends with Anger

We’ve had some early fall thunder storms recently. It reminds me of how anger feels. There can be a brilliant flash, booming that shakes the rafters, and then calm. That’s similar to how natural anger flashes in a balanced nervous system when we need a burst of energy to act immediately. But fight/flight reactions are also roused from energies stored…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Don’t Believe Everything You Think! Question Your Thoughts

Thought Spotting “My brain is deeply flawed. And no offense, but so is yours.” I loved this quote from the Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs, so much that it inspired this article. I spend a bit of time watching my brain at work these days. I used to believe what my brain told me. But I’ve come to notice…
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Tense?

Take a few rocks out of your backpack. Here are some steps you can use to get back in the flow, and let overwhelm and tension find their way out of your body. You can do this in just a few minutes, even at a stop light! Just keep your eyes open! Connecting with the Here and Now – Orientation…
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Is It Stress or Trauma? Learn the difference and outsmart anxiety

Perhaps you have experienced some of these situations You have a medical or dental procedure and you try to calm yourself but you notice fear getting the best of you. Afterward you feel numb, spacy and disconnected from yourself. You work in an office where no matter how hard you work, it will never be enough, and you have to…
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