One of the things I’ve been seeing a lot more clearly recently is the place where there’s so much programming at various levels of our society, telling us that natural processes and healthy human functioning is a disease or a disorder.
This is incredibly dangerous programming if it sticks. When it’s sticks, it becomes a belief. More specifically it’s a limiting belief that a person starts to live by and take on as true about who they are.
When someone feels anxious, it is often times because they need to make a change and move away from something that is occurring. This is a signal that something is not right and it is also access to energy needed to grow and shift the situation back to a place where we regain homeostasis. And quite often when someone is at the other end of the spectrum or told they are depressed, it’s because they pushed through far too many things that they did not have the capacity for nad depleted themselves. Likely they were never shown or taught how to rest, slow down or turn inward to take care of themselves with necessary recovery.
Instead of learning this when these ups or downs in energy show up in our nervous system and become signals going to our brain as the conscious experience, many were instead taught or told that’s bad or wrong. "You have a disease and you need to be treated." Then the entire foundation of how a person may view their mental health is built off of that faulty foundation.
This is not to say that there are not times when these crossed wires becomes so intense that they’re really is a mental health issue that needs time, attention and resources. There is a time and a place for actual clinical diagnosis and treatment. These are not the cases I am talking about here. The significant increase in mental health issues in a short amount of time is pointing to something else occurring as well.
Mental illness also is a self fulfilling cycle because it convinces you to focus even more on the mind. The mind is the “problem” oh wait but put attention there and over analyze it. Huh???? When the antidote is almost always put more attention on rebalancing the mind with the body. The body needs more attention. The nervous system is running through both your mind and your body so connecting them to hold the balance through the whole nervous system often brings the return to wellness. However when your attention sucks up into your noggin you can become dangerously cut off from yourself and unable to actually exist in your body. This worsens everything, and your perception of life, reality and being present all can shift even farther out of balance.
Much of my work is aimed at the many areas we can relearn and reframe common and appropriate human experiences that may have been labeled as diseases and disorders.
The first topic I am talking on is basically in a nutshell ANXIETY. But we will be talking about this through a very different lens. We are not talking about the diagnosis of anxiety. We will be talking about and exploring what it means to experience the sensations, patterns, and heightened energy that has been commonly rolled into the umbrella we refer to as feeling anxious. That increase in nervous system activity....heart rate up, racing thoughts, can't sleep, tapping, etc.
I chose this topic first because in my 9 year career when I was practicing in psychiatry, this was the most prevalent. It is the one that plagued many and was also linked to so many crossed wires in perception. There is room for a lot of impact here in helping people understand themselves rather than jumping to something being wrong. And best of all we as humans are all connected and assessing the people around us. It is like emotional contagion BUT working in a healing direction. The more people there are walking around not freaking out about having normal human experiences in their nervous system the more others begin to feel that this is ok for them as well.
There is a bit of nuance to some of this discussion and that is why I hold programs and 1:1 sessions to provide context and guidance while exploring this for yourself. It is time to start having these conversations and clearing up what is starting to be dangerously out of balance.
(If you want to join me for my 5 month program 'When the Body Talks' we begin on January 13th, 2024. Anyone who feels interested in what I said above please reach out and lets at least discuss a bit further.)

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