I just got back from a three-day retreat in Palm Springs, with Danny Morel. He does these events called Awaken.
And I will tell you, it opened up my heart and my capacity to be with a lot of things in a new way.
That amongst a lot of work I've been doing internally to:
* befriend
* heal
* and better understand my nervous system.
Now I'm finally at this place of:
* Let me be.
* Let me feel.
* Let me embody.
And this is why I've been bringing you guys a lot of strategies with emotional regulation like my NEW toolkit freebie to help you keep track and stay organized with the different high payoff tools for your nervous system.
Having strategies that ground me into my body, connect my body to my mind.
As people with ADHD, many of us have complex trauma. We struggle with emotional regulation and we're highly sensitive. We feel things really deeply and so no wonder we try to run away from our feelings…. Cause it hurts. It's intense. We've been told it’s too much.
So it makes so much sense why we’d be running from it, hiding from it, looking for ways to suppress. But I think that there comes a point in our life where we're desperately longing to feel.
I'm starting to create more space in my nervous system to be with myself. I'm starting to create more space around those moments where I’m dysregulated or triggered.
Tearing all of those things off to just be with yourself is very vulnerable. But I really want you to think of it as this entry point into creating enough space to be in your body. To be with whatever's there. To stop running from it. And to not judge it.
Mothers are the root. So healing our own nervous systems as primary caregivers, as mothers, as women who, I'm just going to say it, the vast majority of us have complex trauma- especially if we're neurodivergent.
Ultimately, allows us to hold space so we can co-regulate and support our kids.
That is empowerment. We are in control. We create our realities. We create our experiences. It always comes back to us.
I would love to hear if you have any thoughts, feelings, or if you can relate over on Substack?
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