This episode highlights my recent session with a somatic experiencing (SE) practitioner. I went there to explore some of my unfavourable responses to my recent breakup, especially feelings of helplessness that overwhelm my body when I think of him moving on.

I am still having a hard time expressing what really happened during that 1 hour SE session, but I hope this informs you a bit, or at the very lease offers some entertainment.

It feels like SE has reset my nervous system, and I feel like I am actually operating from a parasympathetic dominant nervous system now. This is after spending most of my life with unknowing underlying low levels of self-preservation mode (fight or flight, sympathetic, etc). 

I hope you enjoy the podcast !

Connect with me at [email protected] or on IG @CamilleJulia

Resources to learn more:

The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma By: Bessel Van Der Kolk

Healing Trauma Restoring the Wisdom of the Body By: Peter A. Levine

Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma By: Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick

SE Australia

Peter Levine explains what SE is

Books I mentioned:

- Attached The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love.  By: Rachel Heller, Amir Levine

- Loving Bravely Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want By: Alexandra H. Solomon

- Trauma And Memory Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory By: Peter A. Levine

- The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma By: Bessel Van Der Kolk

- Loving What Is Four Questions that Can Change Your Life By: Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell

Course I'm doing:

Modalities:

Somatic Experiencing (SE) developed by Peter Levine

- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) 

Intro song by Mettā Man 

To submit any questions or to connect: [email protected]

A few things mentioned in today's ramble:

- Why I Don’t Agree That “Men Shouldn’t Be Making Laws About Women’s Bodies” article

- the Free Birth Society (check out their podcast too, so epic)

- Past life regression meditation with Bryan Weiss

Book I'm Currently Loving/ Learning From:

- Intimate Communion by David Deida

- Enlightened Sex by David Deida

- Keys to the Kingdom by Allison Armstrong

- Queen's Code by Allison Armstrong

- Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

- I Need Your Love is that True by Byron Katie

- Trauma and the Soul by Donald Kalsched

- Tantra by Osho

- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich

Goodbye Facebook and Instagram!

A small life update from me, and the Houdini I just pulled with social media. 

Feel free to reach out at [email protected] 

A mish-mash of questions on work, life, regret, and being. Featuring a rather long intro life update, on how I lost my drivers license, a recent existential crisis, and more.

Mentioned Resources:

- My Experience as a Freelance Writing Digital Nomad article

- Shadow Work 101: What Is Your Shadow and How To "Integrate" It article

- Byron Katie "The Work"

- Ask Bhagwan App for Osho talks

- Book I read the zen story from: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

-  Ask yourself: "Who Am I?"

In this episode Cam discussing the fleeting nature of our identity, and the many ways in which romantic relationships can serve us a big dose of our shadow; and the opportunity to observe, create space, integrate, stop identifying, and let go. 

Some things mentioned in this episode:

Byron Katie's "The Work" and her 3 books: "Loving What Is", "A Thousand Names for Joy", and "I Need Your Love, Is that True?"

- Osho's books: "Tantra The Supreme Understanding" and "The Book of Secrets"

- Lacy Phillips "To Be Magnetic, The Pathway"

Intro/ outro song by Mettā Man

This episode explores some of Cam's experiences with meditation, her current practice/ take on why we meditate, thoughts about spiritual bypassing, equanimity, triggers, and shadow work.

Relevant article:

- 10 Day Silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat: My Experience(s)

Today's episode is all things women. Cam chats about periods, birth control, body literacy, hormone health, self-worth, and more!  A few of the resources mentioned in today's episode:

Click the link below for article on: 

- Charting your menstrual cycle

- High quality sleep

- Sprout, soak, ferment your foods

- Regenerative agriculture/ organic food/ questions to ask your food providers

- Caffeine

- The healing power of nudity

- Finding an HRHP to work with at Justisse

& and big THANK YOU to Mettā Man aka Pesche Bechter for the new high vibes BFH podcast intro tune. Love.

In today's episode, Cam talks all things identity with Geraldine Matus. Apart from being an all-round Jedi and total badass, Geraldine is a Lay Midwife, HRHPE, PhD, and is the founder of the Justisse Method, a fertility awareness based method (FABM). She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Depth Psychology With Emphasis In Psychotherapy. She is my mentor, and my dear friend.

To connect with Geraldine or work with her 1 on 1, visit https://www.worldsgeographyoflove.com

Song mentioned: Leonard Cohen's The Guests https://youtu.be/ejFGVrwN00U