Yoga in the Therapy Room: Tips for integrating trauma informed yoga

Have you heard of neuro-linguistic programming? What is a quick NLP mindset strategy you can use to overcome anxiety? How does one overcome limiting beliefs?

Vassil is a Transformation Life Coach. His holistic skillset includes being a Master NLP Practitioner, Master TIME Techniques Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, EFT Practitioner, and Meditation Teacher.

Vassil aims to help people break through and experience massive transformations in all areas of life such as Health (physical+emotional+mental), Career, Relationships, and Personal Development.

He specializes in helping people step into massive action, eliminate bad habits and regain control of their power. His approach explores stepping into the higher self and tapping into the flow state.

Visit Vassil's website. Connect with him on Instagram, Youtube, and LinkedIn.

• What is NLP?
• Coaching versus therapy
• Thoughts and body

NLP can simply be defined in two ways; understanding how the brain works, and the science of excellence.

NLP helps people deal with life's opportunities and challenges. The strategies taught in NLP can be used in treating mental health issues because it focuses on what causes the problems that people deal with, and what is obstructing their thought processes.

The tools provided by NLP help people move away from their ego and allow them to adopt other perspectives to their life which helps them to approach their problems in different, more constructive ways.

Therapy requires many years of schooling, and it works under strict sets of regulations and laws, whereas coaching is more open-ended, and not bound to the same level of regulation.

With coaching, you still need to be aware of what is beneficial for the client. If the client is dealing with depression and anxiety, coaching may not help, and they need to be referred out to a therapist.

Clients can get the most out of coaching if their goals are to overcome their fears, change their life, and start building productive and healthy habits. Therapy and coaching can work together: coaching can elevate the understandings achieved in therapy.

Research has shown that negative thoughts create negative responses in the body. A negative thought is processed for seven seconds in the brain before the body releases hormones, such as cortisol, in response to the stress-inducing idea.

In this state, we are not our best, and we cannot perform and live our lives in ways that allow us to grow and mature.

Your mind may hold onto limiting beliefs because it is trying to protect you from the hurt you may have experienced in the past. Releasing them is the key to helping you move forward.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

How much do you know about tarot cards? Are you interested in bringing tarot into therapy for your clients? How do tarot cards compliment CBT?

Paula is a former educator and classically trained musician. She left teaching due to illness which led her to study yoga and Ayurveda for the past 15 years. During that time she returned to her love of the metaphysical, which led to the birth of Open Key Tarot.

Recently, she received her Masters in Counseling and is working towards removing the stigma and taboo of Holistic modalities in counseling. She is passionate about ethically enhancing traditional theoretical modalities (CBT, etc.) with archetypal tools like Tarot.

Connect with Paula on Facebook and Instagram. Visit the Open Key Tarot website.

• How can tarot cards help therapists with clients
• Using tarot with CBT
• Introducing a client to tarot cards

Tarot cards can be beneficial for clients who are stable and do not struggle with psychosis. They are grounding tools, and when a patient is feeling more grounded, they can receive more benefits from it.

Although, tarot cards do need to be tied to a theoretical orientation.

You can use the cards as conversation starters to get to the deeper meanings and findings behind a client's thought processes.

Tarot cards can act as conversation starters, and they encourage clients to think about the deeper meanings behind what they feel when they interact with a card.

Therefore, tarot cards can be used alongside CBT as a mental health technique to get a client talking and interacting with their thoughts.

First, spend a few sessions with the client to get to know them better before introducing tarot.

Once you think that they may be open to them, ask them "how would you feel about this? Would this be something that you are interested in doing?"

Demystify them for your clients. Let them know that there is no magic involved, no spells; just conversation starters and something that you can use in-session to prompt some deeper discussions.

Bring both skepticism and an open mind to the table. It is okay to dip a toe in and explore.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

How is movement scientifically proven to assist emotional processing? What can clinicians do to help their patients commit to forming healthy habits? Can you integrate the principles of movement, sleep, and nutrition into your counseling practice for treatment?

Katy works with clients to manage anxiety and trauma responses through the lens of Holistic Mental Health. She is a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Practitioner (CMHIMP). Katy utilizes physical health and lifestyle methods, like nutrition, movement, and sleep, to help clients manage their mental health symptoms.

Katy works in private practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the north Indianapolis/Carmel area. Katy lives in Indianapolis and is married with three children.

Visit her website, Beacon of Change. Email her at [email protected], or contact her practice at 317-530-3050

• Movement for mental health
• Forming healthy habits
• Sleep for mental health
• Nutrition for mental health

Bilateral movements such as swimming, walking, cycling, and running all help clients process their emotions.

This is because the constant alternating repetition of movement helps their brain to move through the issue and complete the emotional cycle.

When the body is stuck, so is the mind. Move the body to help the mind find new perspectives and ways of interacting with a situation or problem to solve.

Once a client has practiced a new activity three times a week for three weeks, that is when the new habit starts to be formed.

Getting a client to carve out that time to commit to trying something new three times a week will make it easier for them to assimilate this new habit into their lifestyle.

Keep in mind that it is important to validate their emotions as committing to a new routine may be difficult for them in the beginning.

A patient must decide for themselves that their sleep, health, and movement are worth the effort to take care of.

Often teaching a patient about the importance and benefits of getting good consecutive sleep is enough to motivate them to try correcting their sleep schedule, because they desire those benefits.

There are benefits to keeping a food diary. This is not to have people keep count of their calories, but instead to keep track of what they eat, how often they eat it, and when they eat it.

These insights can be greatly helpful to discerning how the client copes with stress or anxiety throughout the day when it comes to food.

It is also beneficial to see which food groups of nutrients they are missing out on because properly nourishing the body is a foundation of mental and emotional health.

Be sure to have a disclaimer that states that you are not a doctor and nutritionist, and refer your patients out to them if your patients are asking about nutrition specifics.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

What are some of the skills and abilities of empathic people? How can empaths learn to protect their energy and harness their empathy? Why are nature and water essential to self-care for an empath?

Sarah Granahan is the Founder of Color My Spirit, LLC - an organization she created in 2012 to offer inspiration, motivation & self-healing to people. Sarah is an Energy & Intuitive Coach with training as a Holy Fire® Reiki Master/Teacher (RMT), Healing Touch Practitioner Apprentice (HTP-A), Hypnotherapist, Integrative Health Coach, and Healy Practitioner. Her gifting includes being an Intuitive Empath, Shaman, Medium, Animal & Child Messages & Energy Worker, and Wellness Coach.

Sarah treats people with sleep disturbances, anxiety, pain, grief, wound healing, fatigue, or side effects from medication and chemotherapy. She also offers sessions for people who want to explore their shadows and clear old energy to support their general well-being. In 2020, Sarah expanded her practice and opened Color My Spirit Wellness - a place where alternative & holistic practitioners can gather to treat clients on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels to encourage alignment and balance.

Visit her website. Connect on Facebook, Twitter, or subscribe to her Youtube channel. Alternatively, give her practice a call at 919-803-8085 or email her at [email protected].

• What is an Empath?
• Some top self-care tips for empaths
• Intention is important

An empath will not only feel the emotions of the people around them, but they may take it on as their own and carry the emotional weight that does not belong to them.

It can become difficult for them to distinguish between what their emotions are and the emotions that they feel that belong to or come from other people.

However, being an empath is a gift, and it is something to be celebrated.

Some signs of having the empathic ability:

• Feeling deeply connected to being outside and in nature
• Having the feeling of carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
• Crying easily
• Being worried and concerned about your loved ones
• Treating pets like family
• Being more compassionate and caring for your loved ones than most people around you
• Getting tired easily from spending time with energetically demanding people
• Becoming emotional when watching movies and tv shows
• Mimicking and picking up on other people's illnesses and physical pains

1. Positive self-talk is essential.
2. Eating lots of fruits and vegetables and drinking lots of water.
3. Taking care to get enough quality sleep and time resting.
4. Spending time in nature to ground energy and decompress from people.
5. Setting healthy boundaries, pulling back from people-pleasing, and learning how to say no.
6. Practice journaling to let go.
7. Planning for emotional overload. If you have had a busy time, plan some space for yourself at the end to replenish yourself.
8. Practice distinguishing between your emotions and energy and those of other people.
9. Work with visualizing techniques. Imagine the person you want to become and the life you want to lead, and take small steps every day towards those goals.

If these ideas are new to you, or you are struggling with implementing them, start simple and focus on intention.

It is your intention to get better, reclaim your energy, and replenish yourself. You intend to learn how to protect your energy, set healthy boundaries, and put yourself first which will teach those around you to do the same.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

How can medical professionals turn unhealthy competition into healthy collaboration? What is the significance of emotional intelligence to leadership and stress management? Which frameworks can therapists use to help them overcome self-doubt and negative self-talk?

Dr. Nina Ahuja is a surgeon, award-winning medical educator, senior academic leader, certified emotional intelligence facilitator, founder of Docs in Leadership, an organization established to promote and deliver leadership education to health professionals, and author of the bestselling book "Stress in Medicine: Lessons Learned Through My Years as a surgeon, from Med School to Residency, and Beyond". She is an advocate for emotionally intelligent leadership, mental health, wellness, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Visit her website. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

• Dr. Ahuja's ADMIT framework
• Benefits of frameworks for therapists
• The importance of emotional intelligence

ADMIT is an acronym that stands for five phases of experience which are common sources of stress:

• A: adapting to new ways
• D: doing the work
• M: measuring success
• I: introspection
• T: transformation

You can use the ADMIT framework when you are feeling overwhelmed to help you understand which phase of experience in stress you are currently struggling with. Once you have identified which phase, you can dive deeper into it.

The ADMIT framework helps to uncover the psychological barriers around what we do and what we do not do. It is a tool that you can use to increase:

• Emotional intelligence
• Awareness around our reactions to situations

You can couple the ADMIT framework with the Smart Goals framework so that you can uncover those underlying stressors and reasons, and create actionable change to implement a shift that is aligned with your goals.

Combine the ADMIT framework for understanding your stressors better with the Smart Goals framework to make meaningful change in your personal life, and to move through any difficulties in your professional one.

Use the framework to pull yourself out of the rabbit hole of comparing yourself to other medical professionals.

As much as success in the medical field is objective, it needs to be met with personal strength and growth as well. Nurture a healthy internal dialogue to reframe how you view yourself to others because your journey is different from someone else's journey.

Emotional intelligence is the foundation of being able to cultivate positive and healthy relationships.

It is about being aware of your emotional response and providing yourself with the ability to choose how to react in any given moment, versus being at the mercy of your unchecked emotions.

Your emotional intelligence is what you depend on when you are reacting and responding to your colleagues, your family, and strangers. You exponentially broaden your capacity to create a positive impact in the world when you work on expanding your emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is important for:

• Leadership, because it encourages empathy
• Managing stress, because it allows you to shift emotional responses to situations

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

What does your self-talk sound like? How do you start to believe positive affirmations from not believing in them at all? Can taking baby steps lead to genuine momentum and bring about real change?

Elizabeth Meyer is a caring, warm, and intuitive Coach and Psychotherapist. She specializes in working with women who are seeking personal growth, healing, and transformation. She helps women shift their mindset, removing self-limiting beliefs and other internal blocks to success so that women can dream big and live the life of their dreams!

Elizabeth has been a licensed psychotherapist for 25 years receiving her BS in Psychology from Grinnell College and her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Certified Personal and Professional Coach, having received her certification from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) over 16 years ago.

Connect on Facebook or visit her website. Email her at [email protected] or phone her practice at 508-909-4109.

• How to overcome self-limiting beliefs
• The power of baby steps
• Getting the momentum going

Normalize them: the first step to overcoming something is to accept that they exist. You can accept their existence without believing what they say.

Learn and adapt: Almost everything is "figureoutable". There are things that you can learn to help you make meaningful changes in your life and mindset.

There are things that we can learn. We can learn to do specific tasks. If there are special techniques, we can learn them. If there are mindset skills, we can learn them. We just have to apply ourselves. (Elizabeth Meyer)

Self-belief: when you make changes in your mindset, you may not believe them immediately because you have spent so long believing the opposite. Work on building the structure for the creation and incubation of positive thoughts, and they will come.

If it feels too strange or ingenuine, remind yourself that you are learning and that it is a work in progress.

Fear and nervousness are normal. They are emotions that are telling you that this is something near to the edge of your comfort zone and that you are close to expanding yourself. Do not run away from the fear, because you can still take small actions despite it.

The shifts that you make do not need to be grand and scalable all the time. You can make small waves and movements. A small step is better than no step at all.

Each baby step not only helps you to make progress, but it helps you to slowly build up momentum.

Over time, your small actions will turn into habits, and your new jobs will become daily routines, and before you know it your venture has become a part of your lifestyle and schedule.

It all starts with a movement, and even the smallest movement done a little bit every day or week is enough to get the ball rolling. The most difficult part is starting alone, so pick something easy, commit to your growth, and take your first baby step.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

What is an energetic boundary? Why is building your self-awareness an integral part of maintaining your energetic boundaries? Can energy be like water?

With three certificates in energy healing and Level 2 Reiki certified, Lisa has gained extensive training in the mind-body connection. She also has the traditional training of a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and offers clients a holistic approach during sessions.

Dedicated to her private practice and work in her community, Lisa sees patients in her Pasadena, California office, as well as virtually in online therapy or phone therapy. She has a keen interest in helping those who struggle with issues related to being a highly sensitive person, as well as parents and individuals navigating depression, anxiety, stress, or trauma.

With over 20 years of education, training, and life experience, Lisa is well-equipped to help others in their healing and personal growth.

Connect on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Sign up for her free 8-week email and listen to her podcast here, or visit her website here.

Email Lisa at [email protected] or call her for an initial consult at 626.319.5076.

• How to set energetic boundaries
• Build your self-awareness
• How to get into your body
• Lisa's advice to listeners

The first step to learning how to set energetic boundaries for yourself is to:

Know how to ground yourself:

You can ground yourself into the Earth as a meditation, and feel yourself be secure and connected with the earth, sending energetic roots into the soul that connects you with nature.

Get to know what your energy feels like:

Once you are comfortable and aware of how it feels to be within your own energy space and to feel what your energy feels like, you can more easily recognize if you are holding onto or are carrying energy that does not belong to you.

By being grounded within your body and being comfortable and aware of your energetic boundary, you can more easily pick up if somebody is – intentionally or not – overstepping it.

Getting to know what your energy feels like to you is an integral part of building your self-awareness.

Make intentional time to understand what it is that you need to feel at peace and grounded. This is also where self-care becomes important.

Consider:

• Taking a little time every day for self-reflection, such as writing in a journal,
• Meditating
• Moving your body and exercising.

Imagine that the energy flowing through you is like how water flows through a river. Each day you can ask yourself:

• Is there a part of me that feels stuck today?
• Where does it feel stuck?
• How can I get that energy to move and flow through me and beyond me?

To become connected to and grounded within your body, you need to slow down. The mind works quickly and is loud, whereas the body is quiet and slow.

With the body you can use the art of inquiry: when you feel sensations in the body, such as feeling a weight or emptiness in the stomach, or sadness in your heart, you can ask questions.

Imagine giving those sensations a color or a description to make them more tangible and therefore easier to heal. Do not bring judgments into this space.

The first step is the hardest, but the second and third and the rest are always a little easier.

If you are considering it, do not be nervous about being a part of group therapy, because it can offer a different kind but equally valuable therapeutic experience.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

Have you heard of muscle response testing? How can you use muscle response testing to do deep trauma healing work with your clients? What are some self-care tips that you can utilize at work?

Growing up in Germany, Angela lived on the outer skirts of a small town in Bavaria, where using holistic remedies was just a daily way of living.

After moving to the US at age 24, she slow and steadily pursued her passion to learn more about herbal tinctures and holistic remedies, mainly for her own family.

In the mid-nineties, the path to her healing practice expanded while studying the gentle art of Healing Touch, EFT, Touch for Health, and eventually Emotion Code.

In addition, Angela's deep-rooted love for herbal medicine has also lead her to become a certified Aromatherapist, which she specializes in for over a decade, to support and balance client's emotional ups and downs, safe and naturally.

Angela is the mother of 3 children and 7 grandchildren, that continued on the same Holistic Path that she instilled in them.

Visit her website. Connect on Facebook and Instagram.

Download the free e-book: How to Move Forward with Ease

• What is muscle response testing?
• Conscious and subconscious mind
• Angela's self-care tips for therapists

I take the tip of my pointer finger and the tip of my thumb, and I put it together as a ring on both hands. I open the ring on my right hand and lock it into my left-hand ring.

The ring in ring method is when you:

• Connect the tip of your pointer finger with the tip of your thumb, creating a ring.
• Create a ring on both hands.
• Open a pointer finger and interlock it with its thumb through the other ring, so that your rings on both hands are interlocked with one another on each side.
• If you ask a question and the ring breaks, the answer is no.
• If you ask a question and the ring remains in place, the answer is yes.

You can use the ring method to find if there is still trauma in the body from past experiences that have not been resolved.

Some people may have suppressed their feelings and thoughts so deep that their conscious mind and their subconscious minds are not able to hear one another.

In this case, using muscle response testing can help you to get your clients to find the place in their memory or trauma that they have missed that is still being triggered, and work through it.

• Breathing deeply with your hand on your forehead,
• Sitting quietly with your hand on your heart and taking intentional deep breaths,
• Take a walk around the block on your break to calm your mind from work and to revitalize your energy,
• Place a diffuser in your office for using essential oils.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

How can therapists combine mindfulness with equity? Can mindfulness be made more accessible? What are your most effective mindfulness techniques as a therapist?

Yunieska Krug and has a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Boston University. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Yunieska is also licensed as a Masters Level Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor in New Hampshire.

She has extensive experience working in various settings with diverse populations. Yunieska holds certifications in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectal Behavioral Therapy, and Mental Health with aging populations.

Yunieska's clinical specialties include treating Trauma, Anxiety disorders, Depression, Adjustment issues, Life coaching, Interpersonal conflict resolution, Relationship loss, Multi-cultural issues, Dual-diagnosis, and Substance use disorders. Her treatment approach is empathic, empowering, and patient-centered. Additionally, she is able to speak Spanish fluently.

Visit her website.

• Mindfulness strategies for therapists
• Equity and mindfulness
• Mindfulness advice

• Guided mediation
• Subtle yoga course
• Aromatherapy
• Reiki

Having a daily mindfulness practice that is dedicated to yourself and your wellbeing will enable you to give great therapy while maintaining your peace at the same time as you guide people through their treatment.

Mindfulness should not be exclusionary or be kept away from people who cannot afford to pay for full services.

Teaching people mindfulness tactics and techniques in their counseling, especially people who do not have the time or financial resources to pay for a full course, is a good way to make sure that mindfulness is accessible for everyone.

If you have the capacity and the resources at your practice, consider offering free sessions or videos to people who could greatly benefit from valuable mindfulness information.

Do not be hyper-focused on the journey and trying to control outcomes. Embrace contrast in your life to give yourself the emotional freedom to move forward with intention.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)

What are some holistic strategies that can treat eating disorders? How do mindfulness and breathwork come together to strengthen the benefits of intuitive eating? Can you bring aromatherapy principles into eating disorder treatment?

Rebecca Capps is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist committed to helping clients feel good about their body and happy in life—without food guilt or dieting. She named her practice Mind-Body Thrive because she takes a holistic approach and believes that in order to thrive, one must consider both the mind and body. Rebecca lives near the beach in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband and 1-year-old son, Rowan.

Visit her website. Connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Take this free eating personality quiz to learn about what your eating style says about you.

Get the free guide of Self-Love Meditation.

Sign up for the 30 days Intuitive Eating Program.

• Intuitive eating as a treatment for eating disorders
• Mindfulness and breathwork for eating
• Benefits of aromatherapy

Intuitive eating is a powerful tool that people who have suffered from eating disorders before can use to overcome the intense restriction that they feel over their food and their body.

After a long period of time stuck in an eating disorder, people become detached from their hunger cues and can no longer identify – or trust – their body when it is telling them what they need.

In this instance, intuitive eating is listening to what your body wants and learning to honor those cravings until the intensity wears off and you begin to seek out nutritious food instead of the food that you used to restrict from. In this, mindfulness is necessary.

Intuitive eating helps people to get out of a cerebral realm and focus their attention on what their body is asking for, instead of what they think it should be asking for.

Mindfulness is an integral part of intuitive eating. You can combine mindfulness and basic breathwork to ground the body away from stress, out of past trauma or memory, and into the present moment.

From this place of presence, awareness, and a sense of calm, once you have removed yourself out of yesterday's stressful emotions or this morning's difficult situation, you can connect to what it is that your body needs instead of eating what your emotions feel like eating.

It is possible to use aromatherapy as a paired healing modality to treat eating disorders alongside doing breathwork. Different oils instill different beneficial feelings in patients, such as:

• Geranium: instills self-trust,
• Rose: opens the heart chakra,
• Patchouli: helps with self-confidence,
• Bergamot: calms a person from anxiety and stress.

Consider having a multi-disciplinary treatment plan, so that you are aware of how you can use different modalities and how they work together, instead of focusing only on one.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)