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Hi, I'm Alyssa, aka Your Wellness Bestie!
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What are somatic practices?
Unlike talk therapy or mindset coaching, somatic practices guide clients to sensations in their own bodies where mind-body work can be done. This is where true and lasting transformation occurs.
If you feel like you've been doing all the work but you're feeling stuck or experiencing patterns or blocks still - IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT and NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU!
I've been on my own healing journey for years. I've walked on fire at Tony Robbin's UPW event, I've read all the books, worked with the mindset coaches, done talk therapy - all the things. But was still frustrated and going through cycles of being stuck and repeating life lessons. Relatable I know!
It seems like every day there is a new manifestation or mindset coach popping up on the internet preaching "think positive thoughts" or "be grateful and it will happen for you". While some of these women are legit and offer some great tools, most of what I was seeing out there was mindset work laced with toxic positivity and quite a bit of shaming others for "not wanting it bad enough" as the reason they were stuck. Which is 1000% not the reason you're not where you want to be by the way, I promise.
Mindset work is great and necessary as a starting point. But that's all it is, a starting point. It gets you thinking and self aware and you start to make small changes and see small results. The problem with mindset work is that all the work is done in our mind and brain, not in our entire body and in our emotions. Our bodies hold trauma from past lives, from the day of our birth, and from things we can't remember from childhood. Patterns and stories that aren't our get stored physically in our body as well. We have feelings shoved so far deep into our subconscious that we don't even know that they're there, let alone what they are or how to process them. All of this is deep in our subconscious and mindset work doesn't touch any of it.
This is why no matter how many coaches or therapists you hire, no matter how many books you read or workshops you attend - you're still feeling stuck or experiencing blocks. It wasn't until I went through an intensive 10 month coaching certification program that I was able to start healing my own self at this level to then learn to guide others through their own healing journey and do the same.
Unlike talk therapy or mindset coaching, somatic practices guide clients to sensations in their own bodies where mind-body work can be done. This is where true and lasting transformation occurs.
If you feel like you've been doing all the work but you're feeling stuck or experiencing patterns or blocks still - IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT and NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU!
I've been on my own healing journey for years. I've walked on fire at Tony Robbin's UPW event, I've read all the books, worked with the mindset coaches, done talk therapy - all the things. But was still frustrated and going through cycles of being stuck and repeating life lessons. Relatable I know!
It seems like every day there is a new manifestation or mindset coach popping up on the internet preaching "think positive thoughts" or "be grateful and it will happen for you". While some of these women are legit and offer some great tools, most of what I was seeing out there was mindset work laced with toxic positivity and quite a bit of shaming others for "not wanting it bad enough" as the reason they were stuck. Which is 1000% not the reason you're not where you want to be by the way, I promise.
Mindset work is great and necessary as a starting point. But that's all it is, a starting point. It gets you thinking and self aware and you start to make small changes and see small results. The problem with mindset work is that all the work is done in our mind and brain, not in our entire body and in our emotions. Our bodies hold trauma from past lives, from the day of our birth, and from things we can't remember from childhood. Patterns and stories that aren't our get stored physically in our body as well. We have feelings shoved so far deep into our subconscious that we don't even know that they're there, let alone what they are or how to process them. All of this is deep in our subconscious and mindset work doesn't touch any of it.
This is why no matter how many coaches or therapists you hire, no matter how many books you read or workshops you attend - you're still feeling stuck or experiencing blocks. It wasn't until I went through an intensive 10 month coaching certification program that I was able to start healing my own self at this level to then learn to guide others through their own healing journey and do the same.
