Excerpted from Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice By Giten Tonkov ©2019 In the fight-or-flight process, even if we triumph over a threat, we come face-to-face with danger. The danger can be real or imagined. It can be very sudden or long-term. Regardless, in the moment of activation, we survive thanks to our innate […]
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The Gift of Anger – Part 2 by Prema McKeever The Gift of Anger, Part 2 “Everything that appears in the physical realm is always connected with energy flow at the invisible level” – Nan Lu, Founding Director and President, Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation By alerting us when our boundaries are […]
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The Gift of Anger – Part 1 by Prema McKeever As we sit together in our session, she tells me about her terrible menstrual cramps, the chronic pains in her neck and shoulders, and I notice the tension in her jaw as she talks about stressors in her life. I ask her to tell […]
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Excerpted from Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice By Giten Tonkov ©2019 It’s easy to agree that a “bad day” is different from “trauma,” and that “trauma” is a term that’s reserved for people who have experienced something very unusual. However, research across the world shows that the experiencing of traumatic events is […]
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