Realization that something isn’t right feels like finding yourself in the middle of a thicket of thorn bushes. Maybe you headed in for some tasty raspberries. Suddenly you realize you’re in the middle of the patch and you’re full of scratches. If you move you get scratched some more so maybe you just stand still for a bit while you figure out what’s going on. Carefully, you assess your situation. It’s not possible to stay there. What now??
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We think our memories are about the past. However, our brain and nervous system use this information to evaluate and assess our present. Those memories also influence our current beliefs and ideas, plus form our thoughts about future outcomes and possibilities / limits.
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Do you struggle to keep up the pace? Here's what helped me
Many who connect with me feel weighed down and find it challenging to keep up with current responsibilities. Do you sometimes feel that way? It can feel like we're carrying a heavy backpack and trying to keep up the pace. Here's what helped me unload some of the heaviness in my figurative backpack
Do you have difficult memories? Have you put them in a box in your mind and try to keep the lid closed? What if you had a way to let go of the emotional attachment and inner story connected to those memories? How free would you feel?
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Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed, numb, depleted maybe even deep sadness and grief? Is feeling anxious, panicked, worried part of your daily life? Do you have digestive issues, shallow breathing, immune system issues? Maybe you often feel sluggish or chronically tired despite sleeping long hours? Do you feel so wired up and stuck in constant “busyness” running here and there, always doing, never a break in the day. Are you always doing for others until you’re exhausted and still feeling like you’re not enough?
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Life in this system with this level of stress on a daily basis is rough. Yet we humans are resilient, can often not only survive but thrive. Sometimes we don’t hear our amazing nervous system sounding the alarm until it’s elevated to a very loud level. Even then we may not know what to do in response to the alarm, we have no plan. I can help you get your toolbox prepared so when your amazing nervous system sounds an alert you hear it at a lower level AND you know what to do in response to the alert.
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Are we prisoners of our past or do we have a choice? I offer you these thoughts to ponder, to help you in your healing journey along with several tools for you.
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Do you know wounded people? This picture is my neurotic cat who had suffered all her life. Although she had lived safely with me shortly after her birth and was even bottle fed, something—whether events in her first few days of life or the trauma of previous generations—was stuck in her terrified little body. Sometimes people get locked in fear, always stuck on high alert, sometimes completely shut down.
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AFT dissolves our emotional attachment to painful memories or anxious feelings about future events. During a session, we step through your memories and I guide you to reconsolidate them. This means you look at that memory and the emotions fused to it, adjust your emotions attached to it and consolidate (or bring together) your memory in a whole new way. It is rewriting neural pathways at the very core of your being.
That memory no longer means much and doesn't occupy our thoughts or interfere with our life. The memory isn't always forgotten completely. We do not forget our experience. Our beliefs and the story attached to that memory are gone.
