I developed a lot more support to help this training flow. Number one, the First demo is up and recorded for you to watch now. Once registered you can access it. I’m looking forward to sharing this work with you once you register for the class. You can access the demo as soon as you register to get ready! The registration deadline is February 8, so we can hold a seat for you! Feel welcome to reach out to talk to me about any questions, and I look forward to seeing you all at this month's upcoming CEU. Register here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/HQSLT6EWFLL46

I just watched a movie on Netflix about Aretha Franklin called "Respect" All the feelings. My eyes poured down tears multiple times. At one point Aretha is portrayed breaking down during rehearsal before recording her timeless gospel record and saying in confidence to a friend "I can't break down like that in front of the cameras tomorrow. You don't understand. I have a demon and it's SO strong!" Her friend responded," Aretha you don't have a demon. You just have deep pain that you have been running from for SO so long! You are in church. You are in a safe place. The Spirit is waiting. This is what we are here for." And she sang her heart and created something that has blessed so many people. This is what it feels like to me to find a path for reconnecting to the love of Jesus after religious trauma through Somatic Therapy. I have a safe place. I feel hope and purpose coming back into me.

You can now access the concepts class replays. They are held weekly on Wed from 10:45 am - 11:45 am, replays will be found in the app under Somatic Massage for the Jaw and Occiput. I will be editing the actual replay of the live class and adding in the quizzes to complete each concept. I realized after the live class that we needed to break down these concepts and practices over a longer period of time so that you can have time to integrate, practice, ask questions, and review in ways that suit your nervous system. This also opens up this work to make more room for people to do half of the work online weekly and the other have live, one day in person as FSM. It keeps us connected throughout and builds our community. If you would like to attend live Wed's from 10:45 am -11:45 am you can do so at this link. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8647501073411425368 If you are unable to attend live, you can text or email me questions or your successes and I'll add it in. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Looking forward to continuing on this journey will you all.

Today I had a very full day. It included kids school activities, baking cookies for relatives, packing and leaving on a trip. There was necessary communication with someone who has a difficult history with me that has often caused a negative physical response in my body just to know that I will see them. It wasn't impossibly draining to be with this person. One kid told me last minute that they weren't going. Along the way I took note that things are a lot different in my brain that they were a few short months ago. I remember what it was like for my brain to shut down at just one of a number of these challenges. Its so different now. I had the confidence and clarity, enough to handle a navigation problem while driving, something that would have previously been dangerous or impossible. I made some key decisions without getting paralysis. I just slowed down the process a bit. Yes I really was once that stressed about so many things . Yes this really is changing my life. But this isn't a new me that won at therapy by finally powering through or something. 😂 It's more like the real me that was always there. I just have access to the best in me again, and I don't have to live with the progressively debilitating weight of continual mental torture. I still have problems. I still find new areas of me that need to come home within my being for support. But that support is always there waiting for me. Jesus was there the entire time when I felt disconnected from myself and from the Divine. I am learning to reconnect. I am learning experiencially that there is no separation.

Adrienne often talks about letting things that arise in the felt sense come home. Whatever inner resistance is not to be judged but to be welcomed, even when it's a shadow self that we don't like to think fully represents who we are. I watched this short video today and the speaker Juan Galan does an excellent job putting it into words. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16JKye7VBH/