From Overthinking to Embodiment: Nervous System Regulation, Self-Trust, and Sovereign Flow with Miguel Hernandez

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What if healing isn't about fixing yourself,
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but about learning how to trust your inner compass
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again after years of living disconnected from
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your body? Hello everyone, and welcome to NeuroAlchemy,
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the brain -body healing podcast. This is the
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space where science meets soul, where healing
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is understood as multi -dimensional, and where
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we explore the nonlinear pathways back to wholeness.
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I'm your host, Dr. Sarah Young. I'm a neurointegrative
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and functional medicine practitioner, and much
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of my work centers on helping people reconnect
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the dots between the brain, nervous system regulation,
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emotional experience, physiology, identity, and
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meaning. One of the intentions of this podcast
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is to create clarity because many people are
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not broken, but they are simply disconnected
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from themselves, their bodies, their emotions,
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and the internal signals that we're always trying
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to guide them. Today's conversation explores
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nervous system regulation, embodiment, emotional
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awareness, self -trust, and what becomes possible
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when people begin shifting out of chronic overthinking
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and back into relationships with themselves.
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Take a breath. You do not need to perform here.
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You do not need to have everything figured out.
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Just arrive. Today, I'm joined by Miguel Hernandez.
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Miguel is a therapist turned mind -body coach
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who has taken years of accumulated knowledge
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and transformed it into his own methodology called
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Severn Flow. His work helps people reconnect
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with self -trust, embodiment, nervous system
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awareness, and the ability to be guided by their
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own internal compass. One of the things that
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stood out to me was his focus on helping people
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feel seen while also giving them practical tools
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they can immediately apply in their lives to
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support meaningful change. Miguel, welcome. I'm
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really glad you're here. Thank you. That was
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a really great introduction. Thank you. Wonderful,
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wonderful. Before we dive in, I always like to
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just begin with a gentle arrival. How are you
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arriving today? Physically, emotionally, mentally,
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or energetically? Let me stop and pause and check.
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I say there's always a little bit of nervousness
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and excitement in beginning to have a conversation
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with somebody and knowing people are watching,
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but I feel really calm and grounded at the same
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time. Well, that's a nice place to be, a little
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bit of everything. And that's how we are as multidimensional.
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Before we move deeper, I'd love to slow the conversation
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down and just define in regular terminology some
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concepts that our listeners might hear today.
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Because one of the things we do intentionally
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on NeuroAlchemy is to define those terms in grounded
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accessible language so everyone's included in
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our conversation. So let's begin with nervous
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system regulation. What does that mean in practical
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everyday life? It's recognizing that your nervous
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system, so let's just use different words actually,
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instead of using the same words. That when you're
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making decisions in your life, sometimes you're
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making them from a very ungrounded space. So
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maybe you're feeling afraid, maybe you're feeling
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uncertain, insecure, maybe excited or whatever.
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being regulated, just kind of partially being
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aware of that process. You're aware that I am
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feeling these things and deciding to make a decision
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from a more calm, grounded space. Is that helpful?
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That's beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing
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that with us. I think many people hear that phrase
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constantly online now, right? But they don't
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actually understand what it feels like inside
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the body. And so many people are living in that
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survival physiology and they're not even realizing
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it. So thank you for grounding that out. Another
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term you mentioned was metacognition as a change
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mechanism. That's such an interesting concept.
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How would you explain metacognition in simple
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language? The simplest thing is thinking about
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your thinking, observing your own thinking. Perfect.
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And how does becoming aware of our own thinking
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begin to help us change? It's hard to change
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something you're not aware of to begin with,
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right? But through observation, you're able to
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maybe see where your part is to play within relationships,
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within whatever connection is going on? I think
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it's so incredibly important because awareness
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itself often interrupts those automatic survival
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patterns. And when people begin noticing those
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thoughts instead of just unconsciously becoming
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their thoughts, right, then that opens the space
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for change. You also speak a lot about embodiment.
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What does embodiment mean for someone who spends
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most of their life stuck in their head? I think
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for a while I was even struggling with what does
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that even mean? Because I think exactly what
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you just said is Being so stuck in the head for
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so long as Westerners were even kind of promoted
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to live in the head, right? Be good thinkers,
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be smart intellectuals. So for me, embodiment
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is just two parts. One is the body itself. How
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can I be more in the body and experience my life
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through feeling rather than thinking? So that's
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part of embodiment for me is that you're actually
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Filling your life rather than just thinking about
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all the time the other things are like When you're
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Taking a concept an abstract idea such as embodiment
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we Tried to understand it purely through the
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intellectual So embodiment to me is just trying
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to better understand that through maybe feeling
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it so like if someone is telling you about maybe
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a word you don't understand or know, we get lost
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in that experience because it's like, it's just
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abstract, it's an idea, we don't feel it. So
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embodiment to me is like, how can you stop and
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pause and just be more in the grounded space
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of your being? If someone even says something
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you don't understand, stop and pause is, oh,
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that makes me feel nervous or I'm scared or I
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don't understand. But you're embodying that experience
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in that moment. So embodiment is very much about
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taking you from that mental space into the body.
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Would you also say it's like being immersed in
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the experience of whatever that thing is and
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whatever its energy is? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's
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a really good way to say it. It's really just
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kind of feeling your experiences rather than
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just always thinking about all of it. being immersed
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in it. And we can embody anything, right? Embodiment,
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we can be intentional about what we're embodying.
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I think in some ways, many of us live unconsciously
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and we end up being embodied in situation in
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energetic fields that maybe don't agree with
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us, our lives, our health, our wellbeing. And
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it's really empowering when you can recognize
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that I can shift that, right? I can alter that.
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I'd love to talk more about your personal journey,
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Miguel. What originally led you from therapy
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into mind -body coaching and the development
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of Southern Flow? I think as a therapist, I was
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loving the process of understanding like humans,
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other people, the way we work. And I really just
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love the process of getting to know somebody.
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And then became this desire to want to help people
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make the changes that are coming to me to hopefully
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embody. And I had noticed that the talk therapy,
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just talking about it, would only get me so far.
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Right? So that was the biggest first shift was
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intellectualizing everything is useful for sure
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and needed, but I found that there was a missing
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piece there. So I think what made me start to
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shift into was somatic psychotherapy, thinking
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about like the body, bring the body into therapy,
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right? So that process made me think about how
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does that even work? What's that? What is that
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like? And then how is, how is the mind and the
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body, how do they... when you're aware of the
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connection that's already there, but more like
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awareness building rather than like trying to
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reconnect because it's there, you're just feeling
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the awareness of it. How does that play into
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change itself? Just change in general, the mind
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and the body. And I began to think about what
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I wanted to do in that process. And I just felt
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you have a scope of practice in therapy, right?
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You don't want to get out of. And I have a background
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in doing a lot of plant work, working with tribes
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and working with herbalists. And it just felt
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maybe outside of the scope of a licensed mental
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health therapist. And so I figured, you know,
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I want to do my own thing. I want to create my
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own process. I want to create my own experience
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for people. And that's really kind of what I
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decided is I want to create experiences for people.
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So that's kind of how I made the shift from therapy
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to a coach was like, I want to do my own thing,
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throw in some plant stuff and some. Yeah, do
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some things that I've been. wanting to do with
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all of my past around working with making medicine,
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harvesting, gardening, and all these things.
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So that's kind of how I came to that process
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of going from therapist to coach. And then how
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Sovereign Flow came out was I started to, as
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I started to create like my little idea of taking
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all this stuff from therapy and trying to create
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some structure with it and structure that could
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people could easily follow, this idea kept coming
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up of like, life has always felt like you're
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like either fighting it or that there's a flow
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with it, right? Cause when anybody who's done
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any sort of art has had that experience of time
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kind of disappears and you fall into the experience
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so deeply that like nothing else really exists
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and So there's somewhere to flow to get into,
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but I find that in my own life that there was
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something very similar to that experience of
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where my life just feels easier, even though
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my truck's engine exploded and my financial situation
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is not as stable as I'd like to be right. All
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of the human experiences that are still happening,
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it's not like it's any easier or better. It's
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just part of like this flow of like, well, I
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can handle all that comes to me and all that
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kind of experience was happening, this idea of
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flow. And then Sovereign came in the idea of
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we're all so unique in our own, right? We share
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so much as humans, but there's always at some
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point what makes me, me and you, you and so on
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and so forth, everybody else. And I just thought
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that was really... beautiful because it's like
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notes in a song or something, right? It's what
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makes this beautiful music is the different notes,
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the pauses, the breaks, the silence even. So
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anyways, the idea of sovereign was like, okay,
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how can I help each person find their own flow
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in life? So then sovereign flow just kind of
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was born through that process of wanting to help
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people feel just more comfortable in their own
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skin, and that was kind of the beginning process.
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Like, how do we all just feel a little more comfortable
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and eventually even enjoy just being ourselves,
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right? That's really wonderful. Thank you for
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sharing that. One thing you wrote that really
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stood out to me was the phrase, feelings as messengers
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of information. I love that reframe. What do
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you mean by that? You know, that came from my
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own experience with feelings, but also part of
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Sovereign Flow, I broke off and created this
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whole other program for men and I just recognized
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that, you know, the language of feeling with
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other men is not a common thing that you ask.
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You don't say, hey, how you feeling? It's more
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like, how you doing? What's going on in life?
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And so part of it was the process of like, how
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can I even better get in touch with my own feelings
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and emotions? It was one of those things where
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just kind of clicked through like, you know,
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hearing things and contemplating a thing long
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enough to where all of a sudden it's just like
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something happens and the light switch. This
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idea of like, you know, the more I look at my
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own feelings and emotions and how they relate
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to my inner world and my external world on my
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relationships, I was gaining a lot of information
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about how I was in those relationships, what
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I'd like to be in those relationships. and so
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forth. So realizing that my feelings were telling
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me a lot about what was going on in my life.
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There's a lot of information there, right? Like
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anger was telling me a lot about the things I
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wasn't addressing or my relationship with that
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person, what's not being said, you know, etc.
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And so then that just kind of, yeah, again, it
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was just like these are messengers, like all
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these emotions and feelings are messengers trying
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to tell me About my life and my relationships
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and just packed full of information just so much
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information He was just pot pause and and feel
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for a little bit. So Why do you think so many
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people fear or suppress emotions instead of pausing
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and being present and listening to them? I I
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don't think it's part of our culture and I mean,
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I don't know Maybe maybe I could only speak from
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my experience and that is um is definitely part
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of my culture right growing up with my family
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and Basically And literally being told, you know
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Feelings weren't really allowed right, you know
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Remember crying as a child and being told if
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you want to cry, let me give you reason to cry
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those types of things, right? I think it's just
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part of somewhat, you know, we look at movies
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and all that stuff, everything too. It's like
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there's very much a, I think part of our culture
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of we don't feel what we're supposed to feel
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and only certain ones are allowed, right, to
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some degree. So I think the reason we don't pause
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and sit in them is because we've learned from
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a very young age to ignore it to some degree
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and avoid it and distract from it. So when you
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start to actually let yourself feel true, deep
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insecurity, grief, fear, these things, they're
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really intense. I mean, I remember the first
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time I really just allowed myself to pause and
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let myself feel sadness. It was really tense
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and heavy and I was like, holy crap, you know?
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So I think that's the other side of it too, is
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you have a culture that kind of says not to feel
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or express these freely. When you go into the
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work of trying to start to feel them, it's like,
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whoa, this is really heavy. These are really
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intense emotions and experiences, which is what
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makes it so easy to avoid and distract and ignore
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pushdowns. Yeah, I think so many people were
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never even taught emotional literacy. They learned
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to avoid, to suppress, to perform and push through
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or to disconnect entirely. But emotions often
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contain important information about safety, about
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the needs that we have, boundaries and unresolved
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experiences. And I love what you said about the
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body because it absolutely keeps the score, right?
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A lot of things are stored in the body. You also
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talk about helping people reconnect with their
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own inner compass. Why do you think so many people
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lose trust in themselves? That's a huge question.
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Why do I think people lose trust in themselves?
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I think there is a lot of external pressures,
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a lot of external pressures to be a certain way.
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I mean, you just think about social conditioning,
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you think about your familial, your friends,
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your own specific world and wanting to fit in,
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right? So even just like group dynamics of like
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wanting to fit in itself is like that alone is
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enough to make you want to maybe not fully say
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this thing or do that thing or wear this thing
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or think that thing, right? If you're grown,
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Imagine if you're born into a family of people
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who, let's go extreme, are in KKK. Imagine for
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some reason you have this idea that the color
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of a skin doesn't matter. What is the potentiality
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of you expressing that when everybody around
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you is saying the opposite, right? So I think
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that very much that stuff is going on. I mean,
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that was an extreme example, but I think it's
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very much the same in the sense of There is a
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lot of external pressures to fit in. And that
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just makes it like incredibly hard to want to
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follow your own compass. Cause it's like, I don't
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want to stick out. I don't want to be outside
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the group. I don't want to be alone, right? I
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mean, we're social creatures. So it's like, um,
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it's one of the worst things that you could be
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is alone and not part of a group. Does that make
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sense? Absolutely. And what helps people begin
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rebuilding that self -trust again? Therapy, no.
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I think it's such a, there's some sort of catalyst
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that happens in all our lives. And I think there's
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just an infinite number of ways for us to stop
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and pause and start to just realize like, I'm
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not comfortable in my own skin, or I want to
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be this person. I want to do this thing. And
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I just, and we start to notice how it feels as
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if we're not supposed to or able to. I think,
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I think there's just some sort of catalyst that
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happens in our lives that make us see that aspect
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of our life and decide, I want to do that art
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thing. I want to go play the sport. I want to
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go try this thing. want to wear this thing, right?
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Something, it can be such a small thing too,
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I think. I think chronic stress, trauma, people
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-pleasing, perfectionism, external validation,
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culture often pulls people away from their own
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inner knowing. And eventually many people stop
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trusting what they feel entirely because of that
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conflicting information that they've been receiving
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their entire lives that causes us to question
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what is our reality for us, instead of something
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that's been imposed on us, that we're just going
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through the motions, right? You mentioned wanting
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to discuss the change process itself. What do
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most people understand about healing and transformation?
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That's hard, only because I can speak from my
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own space and what I've experienced as a therapist.
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I think my first initial reaction was like nothing.
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We know nothing about the change process. I mean,
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it feels like it, you know, once you start to
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really look at it, you're like, boy, because
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you look at all the changes you've been trying
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to make in your life and like, why don't any
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of them stick? Why can't I do such a simple thing
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like try to eat differently? Why is that so difficult,
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right? It doesn't have to be giant changes in
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our lives, but like the smallest things, like
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I just want to eat more salad sometimes and whatever.
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I know it's healthy for me. I know they're good
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for me. I actually love them. And yet for some
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reason, I can't seem to get them in my life,
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right? So it's like, the change process is, I
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think it's, it is a very slippery thing I have
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been finding because it's one of the things I
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love to look at. It's like, how does change occur?
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How do you make it stick? And it's both, it's
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like the world of like a paradox because it's
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so simple and complex, right? It's like, All
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you have to do is go to the grocery store and
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buy salad mixings and stuff. And then that's
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all you have at your house. It's that simple.
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And yet trying to get to the store, avoid the
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cravings, avoid all of the inner thoughts of
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like, well, maybe I'll just get like one, you
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know, sweet treat, just one, right? And all of
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a sudden it becomes this complex experience of
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trying to eat more salads. So I think There is,
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we all experience it. Trying to experience change
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in our life. We all try. And I think we all have
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that experience of it's not as easy as it seems,
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but we're all maybe, again, for me, maybe I can
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just say this for myself. Just dumbfounded. Like
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I can't understand why I can't get those workouts.
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And when I know it's good for me and it makes
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me feel better and I always feel way more clearer
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and all these things happen after I feel working
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out. Why can't I do it? And I think that's all
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of us share that experience of change is not
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as easy as it is intellectually understood. Why
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does real change often feel nonlinear or uncomfortable?
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I think everything is laid out in our lives very
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linear. So we want it to be. We want it to be
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quick and easy and fast and just be a process
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that we can start. and then do step two, three,
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four, and five, and then we get the thing. And
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I think honestly, that's been my experiences
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is that. I think it's hard because I just want
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it to be, tell me what to do and then I do those
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things and then it occurs. Especially in the
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age of social media where... healing is represented
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as being quick, clean, and linear, but real nervous
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system change usually happens gradually through
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a lot of repetition, a lot of time spent on that
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awareness, a lot of work with safety, and it's
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just a lot of practice, and it's a lot of relationship,
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and it's not the quick fix that people would
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really want it to be, but it's worth it. I would
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say that you absolutely agree that that long
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haul is much more worth it. because it gives
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you that deep -rooted change that can last a
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lifetime. For someone listening today who feels
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disconnected from themselves or emotionally overwhelmed,
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where would you suggest that they begin? I think
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in my experience it's always good to first be
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able to just Look at oneself non -generally do
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not judge oneself. Do not criticize and just
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see what is currently just map out what is currently
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Your life feels looks like all these things.
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So you're feeling stuck. You're feeling any of
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those words that Just pause and just kind of
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be very aware of What is surrounding all of that
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experience? So I would say that that would be
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the first thing I would suggest is like just
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try to map out What your life looks like? What's
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connected to that? Who's that person that makes
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you feel that thing? What makes you feel that
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way? It's stuckness, that disconnection. If you're
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feeling disconnected, mapping that out, but also
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maybe the other thing that I'm thinking about
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right away is like, what makes you feel connected?
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Cause if you can't even answer that, well then
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like, that's maybe a good place to start. Just
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contemplating on what makes me feel connected.
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What is, what is What does connection even feel
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like to myself? What would that look like? What
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would that feel like? So maybe just defining
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to some degree both in the sense of like, I feel
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disconnected. So let me map that out in my life
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and see what that looks like. And then what is
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connection? What does that even look like? How
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would that be different? Something like that.
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So we're gonna do a little bit more brainstorming
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before we get to our micro practice invitation
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so that we can really get you thinking about
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different things. So the second question is what
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are some simple daily practices that can help
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people reconnect with embodiment and self -awareness?
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I think most of us here in the West we live in
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our heads. So I think it's something simple as
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I love the one of we have all these really amazing,
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wonderful things called our senses and they are
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connected to the physical world and that is connecting
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us to our body. So I would say it's something
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simple as just pausing before you take a bite
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and smelling your food, really smelling your
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food, you know, feeling the wind on your skin,
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just feel your senses and pausing and actually
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experience what that that feels like in your
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body to smell the thing to see this thing to
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touch the thing to taste the thing because it's
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all right there for you all the time they're
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with you no matter where you go you don't need
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anything so i would say that's really the simplest
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thing is just just pause and enjoy the an experience
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through your senses So something to do for like
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a week Not in depth is something they can touch
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on here and there throughout the week Every day
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for the next seven days I think I want to go
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with what I just said actually which is talking
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about the senses. I'd say choose one of your
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senses so you So you can keep it easy, right?
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Like I'm going to, I like to generally like stick
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with like touch and feel. So like, I feel the
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wind, I feel the sun on my skin, I feel sweat.
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Choose a sense, one of your senses. Tasting is
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always hard because you don't always have food
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around you, but choose one of your senses and
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just pause and just really sit in that experience
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as long as you can. just to just feel for a moment
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to get out of your head to be in your body and
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it's like a way to pause and ground yourself
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into the here and the now which is a huge thing
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for me is like being in the here and the now
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is the only thing that ever exists we never get
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to the future in the sense of like my body never
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goes there my body is done being in the past
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could never go there this is all that exists
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is like what's happening right here right now
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so That's that's one way to be in the here and
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now is to experience what is happening right
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here right now And I love that through the senses.
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So maybe that's Yeah, that's I think that's a
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good one because it's again you always have them
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with you The first thing that I saw arise inside
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me was like, you're not alone. I think all of
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us feel disconnected. All of us are sensing that
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experience of not being grounded. And because
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of that, you're not alone. But because of that
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also makes you able to connect with other people
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because we're all experiencing same disconnection.
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So it's this weird experience that like, yeah,
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I feel that too. let's talk about that as a way
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to connect maybe even right so maybe that idea
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is recognizing yeah that you're not you're not
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alone we're all feeling it and um i'm sure there's
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somebody there out there who's willing to have
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the conversation with you to talk about like
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yeah i feel that too let's actually use that
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as a way to connect kind of I don't know why
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that happened, I just meant to hit stop recording
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and -