Our Bodies : for us or against us?

Many of us have experienced chronic pain and illness, insomnia, endless digestive distress, etc. Whether it's shaman sickness, an upgrade, the full moon, a part of being nuerodivergent or highly sensitive or because of the state of the world, we may never know, but it sure does suck either way!

The SSP supports us with coming back into relational and sensory safety through connecting us with our vagus nerve and exteroception, the things outside of our body, which has been shown to lessen chronic pain / illness as a secondary benefit, but I am thrilled to share that the creators of the SSP have introduced a new playlist (RRP - rest and restore protocol) that targets the body and it's ability to access the safe parasympathetic rest/digest dorsal vagal state for restoration of bodily functions through enteroception (connection with how the internal body is doing)!

The RRP can :

• improve sleep
• increase healthy digestion
• reduce pain
• decrease disassociation
• lower anxiety
• promotes health, growth and restoration

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I am one of the providers who will be trialing the RRP for Unyte as they fine tune the protocol and delivery and am so excited to be able to offer it as a great way to kick off the new year.

It is VERY different from the SSP in that there is a much lower financial and time investment as the RRP can be listened to alone for much of the protocol. The delivery will be largely independent as follows:

• 2 sessions with me at the beginning and end of the experience
• clients will listen independently up to 30 min/day with at least 1 day between listening (there are 10 tracks of 30 min each)
• listening is done laying down with eyes closed, it is ok to fall asleep!
• clients will fill out a daily log and receive email coaching each week to monitor progress

How do I know if I should do the RRP vs the SSP?

Basically we are looking at interoception (RRP) vs exteroception (SSP)

Interoception = The perception of the body's internal state, such as breathing, heartbeat, and other visceral sensations. Interoception can also include the awareness of physical sensations like pain, temperature, and muscle tightness, as well as the sensations that accompany emotions.

Exteroception = The perception of external stimuli via our senses. This includes everything we perceive through our senses from the outside world, including social cues such as nonverbal language, body language, facial expression, tone of voice, etc.

The RRP focuses on supporting interoception (helpful for those with sleep or digestive disturbance, chronic pain or illness, etc.)

The SSP focuses on supporting exteroception (helpful for those with social and sensory difficulties). Both support the vagus nerve that is designed to support a flexibility of both intero and exteroception, so we may end up benefitting from both, but we can determine where to start based on where our most prominent needs are.

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Email me or set up an inquiry call to find out if it is a good fit for you. *Unfortunately, the RRP is also not recommended for people with active ringing in the ears, so if that is your experience, we can do nervous system coaching instead.

Cult proofing

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I am the ideal cult recruit, having been raised in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity in the 80s/90s, I just was primed to seek an external authority and to apologize for my existence as a baseline.

Give me a charismatic person with a platform promising to "make me better" and I've already paid and signed my life away, lol. But seriously, it has been a long (and continuing) journey to develop a sense of internal authority where I have caught myself back in cult-like experiences over and over throughout my recovery journey.

Over the past 5 years, a small trickle of people have begun talking about the experience of evangelical Christianity as a cult and it has been extremely validating (and triggering) for me. From Educated, to Shiny Happy People, to Unorthodox (which is about coming out of Orthodox Judaism), Pure and now A Well Trained Wife, I have slowly realized and accepted that my well meaning parents were doing their best and that early training based in the concept of original sin is going to take some committed longterm deconditioning.

Of all the therapy, EMDR, Parts Work/IFS, DBT, SSP, nervous system work, etc that I've done, I've come back to one skill that makes the most significant difference for me on a daily basis and that has helped me to stay relatively cult proof : asking questions of myself and others everyday. Asking "why?" (i.e., "why did I wake up at this time, why am I going to the bathroom, why am I wearing these clothes, why did I drink this tea, why am I spending time with this person or responding to this email, etc?") and "how do I feel physically?" These two questions, offered multiple times a day, have slowly led me towards building an internal authority that can be differentiated from an external authority.

External authorities depend on blanket dualities, good/bad, right/wrong, healthy/unhealthy, abled/disabled, etc. Whereas internal authority is ever changing, expanding, mutating, transitioning and existing beyond the binary.

Society, as it is today, is dependent upon our dependence on external authorities. Moving away from dependence on external authority is not for the faint at heart, it will impact your ability to fulfill social, work, parenting and partnering demands. And there will be push back.

But while it may erode your ability to fulfill the demands of these systems, it will begin to restore and grow your capacity to create, imagine, dream and design a reality where you can be a source to self and all that comes outside of you can be just a bonus, a delight, a joy, instead of a survival need.

And just to balance things out...a little rant

This time of year can be so focused on being happy and healthy, of "doing things right" or "being better" or "getting healthy" and even though my work is technically in the "wellness" category (have you ever noticed that I use a really high amount of quotation marks, I wonder what that is about), I really feel like it is all just too much pressure when we really have no fucking clue what this game is about.....I mean, maybe the point of the game is to be as exploratory as possible about every experience and being "unhealthy" gets extra points, we don't know! I recently heard someone say, "there is no antidote for the human experience," it just includes pain and loss no matter how hard we try or how often we meditate. So, next time that spiritual overachiever or wellness dictator pops in, thank them for their well meaning intention and then share a bag of Doritos with them, or not, because we can't fuck it up, we die either way and I'm pretty sure there is no hell, but if there is one, I might as well have a good time here so that I don't choose hell now and hell then!

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Laughter is the best medicine!

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omg, ridiculous!

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And nature is good medicine too <3

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Some winter love <3

Interested in learning more about the SSP, RRP, the Work or just talking about ET's, esoteric ideas or anything else? book a free inquiry call here!

I've had fewer inquiry calls this past month so spread the word to your friends and family who may be interested!

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love you! xo, z
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