Tag: Authentic Self
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Anxiety: A Messenger from Your Authentic Self
It shows up as racing thoughts, sleepless nights, a pounding heart, or that ever-present knot in the stomach. It’s uncomfortable, persistent, and incredibly inconvenient. We as a society try to fix, silence, or medicated it away?! Anxiety. It has a pervasive presence throughout American society. But what if you were to flip the script on…
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Reclaiming My Gut: Overcoming People-Pleasing
“What are you purging?” It was an ominous question posed by my therapist, a response to my dry heaving at the tail end of my therapy session. My body is no stranger to dry heaving during one of my Somatic Experiencing therapy sessions. As my therapist says, “It’s the toxic energy leaving your body.” With…