🌱 This internal response involves behavioural, cognitive, neurological, postural and breathing adaptations.

New mental health paradigms help us understand that our systems hold the wisdom needed to create new patterns and bring about healing.

#CompassionateInquiry #PolyvagalTheory #Trauma

🌱 We tell stories about ourselves, about others and about the world

We respond emotionally to the stories we tell about our experiences. To rewrite our stories, we need to go to the body.

#WishpathHealing #Trauma #Story #PostTraumaticGrowth #Somatic #InnerWitness #Awareness #Interoception

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

❤️ My name is Meredith Brown

I am a Polyvagal-Informed Registered Psychotherapist, yoga teacher, SSP provider & shiatsu practitioner.

#WishpathHealing #SomaticExperiencingTherapy #PostTraumaticGrowth #CompassionateInquiry #MotherhoodAsASpiritualPractice
#SafeandSoundPotocol #PolyvagalTheory

🌟 Notice when you say or think,

“I have to”

Is it true?

There are so many ways we override our bodies’ calls for rest.

Many of these overriding patterns are driven by systems we have internalized that are not parts of the natural world.

#Rest #Overriding #MovingSlowly #Authenticity #Healing

💗 Bodies communicate through sensation. Invitation to drop out of story and feel.

#BottomUp #SomaticTherapies #Sensation #WishpathHealing