I thought I wanted peace but I was trained for stress, and my training was dictating my experience.
I mixed my life flawlessly, as women historically have:
1. stir in everything and everyone else
2. let myself sink to the bottom
3. drizzle a steady stream of body-numbing distractions
And it was fine, until it started costing me. After peak substance addiction broke me down, I sought help and came to understand why and where it came from... but I still carried the feelings around. I was still frustrated and lonely and lashing out. I locked into a cycle of fixing myself. "Self-care" justified earning relief through more coping behaviors. If I ate too much, I exercised harder. If I was productive that day, I drank a bottle of wine that night. If I scrolled for too long, I would make up for it and give my kids a treat. I thought I wanted peace, but I had been conditioned to seek stress. I was still trying to escape the world, my reality and myself.
Through all of this, my body was with me.
And what my mind couldn't figure out, my body felt.
Each day, I now take steps to return to feeling. I follow a program while tolerating being witnessed in struggle. Now, when I crave change I stay with myself and follow through. And that's what delivered the shifting: I stopped managing my life. I started feeling it.
This is the work that I am trained to do now. I mentor women wrestling inside the pull of quick gratifications that leave them wanting. I dance with women who sense their worth but are consumed by routines that don’t reflect it. I sit with women who feel surges to rally and recover that worth. This practice ushers in a super-women experience back into relationship with our body. This devotion and focus is power.
This is the work of returning to your body and your true priorities.
If it speaks to you, I encourage you to reach out.
HI, I'M DANIELLE.
I BELIEVE WE'RE DONE FIXATING
ON THINKING OUR WAY THROUGH THIS...
I believe women are done living from the mind only.
That singular way is unnatural and it's holding us hostage.
We want to show up to dinners, meet deadlines, do the drop-offs without feeling handcuffed to whatever external thing (or person) is getting us through and regulating our mood.
I believe that we need to get back into our bodies to do this.
We can’t just contemplate it. We can’t feel freedom in theoretical logic. Somatic Recovery lessens the control of the endless consumption vortex. You learn to expand beyond that attention grabbing abyss. You recover feeling in your heart. You strengthen what turns you on so your inner world shapes your life around that magic.
In this next era, it's the super-woman with direct access to body-based connection and a deep inner spirit that will have the most outward and sustainable success... a win so wildly one-of-a-kind and efficient... a celebration with ripples lasting for generations to come.
PRACTITIONER ROLES, ACCREDITATION & LIFE EXPERIENCE
Licensed SOEA Feminine Embodiment Coach, School of Embodied Arts
Member, International Institute for Complementary Therapists
Somatic Movement Facilitator, London-Based