The amount of time and patience it takes to heal the body cannot be understated. Pushing our own personal boundaries to create a larger capacity to be witnessed and seen, can feel counterintuitive at times. However, if we can dig deep to understand how the nervous system attempts to protect us, even when it doesn’t feel like it, we can come to a place of deep compassion for ourselves and others to allow our bodies to feel safe again.  

In today’s episode, we sit down with somatic practitioner, podcast host, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation, Luis Mojica, to discuss what it means to heal the body to live authentically rather than in a trauma response.

In this conversation, we unravel the complexities of somatic healing and how inflammation shows up in the body as a protective response. We also discuss how shame is actually stress and how that relates to our health, even in the most “optimal” health conditions, and how boundaries are the key to creating more connection with the self and others, and much more.   

Healing is not linear, sometimes it feels as if things are getting worse before they get better, however when we are trying to create safety in the body after years of dissociation, or being in our F responses, it takes consistent effort along with a healthy dose of faith and hope that things can and will become easier the more we believe that healing is possible.  Join us to explore these topics and much more!   

Topics discussed in this episode:
Understanding your capacity in somatic healing
Why embodiment does not mean peace
Emotional neglect associated with childhood body boundary violation
How trauma states cause inflammation in the body
Inflammation is the body protecting itself
The connection between somatics and nutrition
Inflammatory response from prolonged stress from shame
The deep healing that comes from being witnessed and witnessing others
Fawning vs. Boundaries Supporting constriction in somatic healing
Patience that is required in healing the body

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