This week I’m talking about pleasure and how experiencing the expansive energy of pleasure in our body can be a pathway through pain. When we have trauma and stress stored in our body it has a very constrictive quality to it. You would know this be either a tight jaw or pelvis, or maybe tension in the shoulders and the back between your shoulder blades.

In this episode I talk about:

- How it can be tricky when we start doing somatic healing work at first because we might be stuck in a constant state of constriction so to feel anything other than this can make us feel unsafe,

- The different survival responses in our nervous system and what they are,

- How some food and drinks can actually mimic the constricted state we are in,

- How we all learn to push through the boundaries of our body and come to ignore its messages to us all the time,

- How pleasure expands our capacity in our body and that gives us more choice and breadth in our nervous system and how this improves our ability to be with our emotions,

- Why micro doing on pleasure is more effective at slowly building your orientation toward it,

- What some pleasure practices that are simple, you could start with.

At the end I mention my free Feminine Embodiment course and my ReConnect course. Reconnect is on sale all through December 2022 for AU$149.50. Changing rhythms for Mammas is also on sale for $39.50 available on my website www.kelliestirling.com