Sick and Seeking
Sick and Seeking is hosted by Leslie Field who, after a diagnosis in her late teens of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), has been on a 22-year journey of healing and self-discovery.
In this podcast, Leslie invites you to join her for intimate, honest and heartfelt conversations with others who are also on their own healing journeys as they live with and manage the long-term effects of “dis-ease” in the body.
Listen to the stories of courageous people who, in the face of an uncertain medical future, are on a quest to go deeper into their bodies, beyond symptom and diagnosis—or in some cases no diagnosis—to reach a place of intuitive knowing, healing and transformation.
This podcast is, above all, an exploration in healing and examines a variety of modalities and knowledge from conventional medicine to holistic and complementary therapies that bring a spiritual, psychological and mystical perspective to bodily healing in our modern culture.
Sick and Seeking
E8 S2 | Somatic Practitioner Emma Gordon Shares How Regulating the Nervous System is the Key to Healing Trauma Held in the Body
Welcome to Episode 8, Season 2 of the Sick and Seeking Podcast
On this episode I speak with somatic practitioner Emma Gordon, of Body As Compass.
Conversation Highlights:
- Emma’s personal journey healing a traumatic past
- The body is always operating from a place of wisdom and what’s best for survival
- A starting place to befriend the body: self-compassion
- Getting the mind and body to work together instead of against one another
- Healing trauma from a place of safety, so finding safety in the outside environment before connecting to the body
- What is the nervous system, why it matters, and how it can become dysregulated
- How neuroaffective touch is an approach that can help people who have trauma patterns stuck in their body
- Human touch is essential to people’s overall wellbeing
- The negative feedback loops that occur with trauma
- Stepping into joy and pleasure to heal the body and build resilience
Quote:
"You know, you can't think your way through trauma, and you can't think your way into regulating your nervous system. And so I think there's a lot of shame for people around being traumatized, and trauma in and of itself creates shame, and then people have shame around having shame, and it becomes this terrible feedback loop for people. But it's not a conscious decision. We can't choose for our nervous system to be in a different place." - Emma Gordon
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