On todays episode, I dive into another way of connecting my listeners to trauma. I define and clarify what it actually means when I'M using this word. Trauma fundamentally has everything to do with our bodies, with our nervous systems, and the current ways of how we are experiencing ourselves. We live in a toxic culture where we are conditioned to abandon the needs of our body and put emphasis on our cognitive functions. While the mind plays an important role in our survival and well being, it can also limit us when we only try to approach knowing ourselves from the mind. We are multidimension beings so healing and understanding our needs, also needs to be multidimensional. Today I discuss how to cultivate an awareness of our bodies. Healing and developing a trauma-informed perspective is about holding space for a conscious, felt experience of ourselves. When we start to hold space to have new experiences of ourselves, experiences in which we are cultivating safety our bodies , we begin to access our personal power. We start to become an active participant in the way we experience ourselves through out the day and this is what will create pause and space to start responding to life differently. We will begin to access opportunities to make conscious choices for ourselves and our needs that are not rigid or forced but in alignment with our current nature. Its about meeting ourselves where we are at and building from there. As we start this process we can see that we are not our behaviors but our behaviors are a reflection of our awareness of self.