A reminder for you today. 🤍 I get alot of clients who say they are afraid or nervous to keep going or start because of the fear of feeling those big feelings. If you are living with constant anxiety, feeling stuck, or cycling through fight or flight, your body is not broken. It is doing exactly what it learned to do to keep you safe. But safety was never meant to be a permanent state of high alert. That is why the somatic work matters. The somatic experiences, the movements, the daily workshops and videos -- they are not just exercises. They are building something. They are building your capacity to finally give yourself permission to feel what you have never allowed yourself to feel. And that is the most important part of your healing journey. The more you continue doing the somatic work, the more you sit with the anxiety instead of running from it, the more you work through the fear and the worry, the more you stop letting fear be in the driver's seat -- the more you will slowly learn to just sit down. Or lay down. Without that adrenaline and cortisol screaming at you that you need to be doing something, staying busy, staying moving, staying numb. Here is what I also need you to hear: feeling safety again is not about it always being calm. It is about allowing yourself to move through the messy, ugly feelings and honoring them. Giving them the space they deserve to finally be felt. And with that comes the part a lot of programs won't tell you about. They make it sound easy to sit with painful emotions. And it is not. Because when you open that door, what comes through is not just a quiet release. It is grief. The grief of friendships lost. Of relationships that broke you. Of people who are no longer here. It is fear -- of the anxiety itself, of being the one who doesn't fit, of being misunderstood. It is health anxiety, insomnia, dissociation. It is the freeze response that has shut everything down so completely that you can't even access what you feel anymore. It is the fight or flight response that has made everything feel so loud and so sharp that there is no middle ground.

Good morning, healers. 🌿 Something I'm learning along the way, and want to pass along to you. Healing doesn't always look like healing. It doesn't always feel peaceful or linear or obvious. Sometimes it looks like a mess. And that's actually the sign. Here are some unique ways your body and nervous system are telling you that you are healing: You're more emotional, not less. Crying over a commercial. Tearing up at something your child or your pet did. Feeling a wave of emotion come out of nowhere. That's not weakness, that's your nervous system releasing what it's been holding. Let it move. You're getting frustrated. Frustration in the healing process is actually a sign that you're working at something. You're engaging. You care. It's the apathy that signals shutdown, the frustration means you're alive in it. You're exhausted, not fatigued. Exhausted. There's a difference. Fatigue is chronic depletion. Exhaustion in healing is your body saying: I am doing deep work and I need rest to integrate it. If you're sleeping longer, crashing earlier, or waking up at 4:30 AM after a full night, that's not burnout. That's your muscles releasing, your nervous system learning safety for maybe the first time. Honor it. You've stopped obsessing over the timeline. This one is big. I did it myself, obsessing over why isn't this going faster, why am I still here? And all that did was keep me ungrounded and stuck in my head. The moment you can just be in the process without needing it to be over, that's a shift. That's healing. Your triggers are smaller, or you notice them faster. You might not react the same way you used to. Or you catch yourself mid-spiral. That gap between stimulus and response? It's growing. You might not even realize it yet. But it's happening. You want more solitude, or more connection. Both can be signs. Some people in healing start craving quiet, nature, stillness. Others feel a pull back toward people after isolating. Pay attention to what your body is moving toward, not just what it's running from.

Hi friend's, take a look at the attached video on simple effective ways to do vagal toning. Understand that this is transitioning the sympathetic nervous system into a parasympathetic state. You may feel residual effects as you do vagal toning if your nervous system is stuck in a state of anxiety, anxiousness or fight or flight. You should feel no pain when trying these moves, try one today and grt comfortable with the transition, however you may feel waves of the body relaxing, crying, warmth, trembles. Keep yourself grounded and drink water.

Hello, friends. I want to be transparent with you, because this work is not something I chose. It chose me. And because of that, I owe you honesty. You may have noticed that I have not posted new content every day as I intend to. I want you to know why. First, a note about the curriculum you are working through: you may be wondering why so much of the early movement, breathwork, and video content is beginner-friendly and gentle. The answer is intentional. The nervous system cannot be rushed. It needs to be carefully, gently met, comforted before it is asked to move into release. As you show up consistently every day, your body and your nervous system will begin to feel safe enough to go a little deeper, and then a little deeper still. That is how this work is designed. That is how healing actually moves. Now for the transparent part. As I always do before I teach anything, I practice it myself first. I created a deep rooted somatic meditation called The Retrieval. Although feelings, emotions, and tears can arise during the meditation for just a couple of minutes, on the seventh day of working through this deep rooted healing, I had no idea what was going to arise. What followed were days of involuntary trembling and shaking, sometimes lasting ten to forty minutes at a time. Uncontrollable sobbing in random waves. Hot and cold sensations moving through my body. I was seen by my doctor more than once to rule out anything medical. The result: a completely clean bill of health from head to toe. What was happening was not medical. It was a release, one my body, my heart, my tissues, and my muscles had needed for years. Because I go deep in this work. Because I show up for myself every day without exception. Because I refused to give up, no matter how confusing or painful the releasing became. My body decided it was time. I went deep with the somatic work and the meditation I built, and something much larger than my conscious mind responded. Humanly, I was not prepared for the magnitude of it. But spiritually, energetically, physically, emotionally, and mentally, I was ready. My body had already been given permission to release years ago. It simply waited until I went deep enough to meet it there.

So exciting!!! Please see the attached application for those of you who are interested in signing up for the personal somatic healing certificate through my new school program. the Wounded Healers Academy of Holistic Healing Arts. ❤️ Please review, fill out, sign and send back to me via email @shirlann206@gmail.com or via inbox through the skool com inbox.