Connect with Supportive Comfort

Somatic Personal Practice

Connect With Supportive Comfort

Touch yourself gently saying, “I’m sorry you are hurting. I’m sorry you’ve been hurt so much. I am here for you. You can cry or scream or sleep. Or we can go for a walk or eat cookies or I can hold you. Whatever you want to do, I am here for you. I am here with you.”

Notice what happens with your body, breath, thoughts and feelings.

When I did this today, I felt myself soften. I heard, “I really want to sleep!” Of course, that’s in part because I’m a bit sick right now. But let me turn away from my thoughts and just feel the desire to sleep and rest. And feel the softness together with the desire to sleep and rest. ❤️

Connect With Protective Support

Somatic Personal Practice

Connect With Protective Support

Gently touch your face, arm, hand, head or heart.

Say to yourself: “I wish for you to be safe, protected and taken care of. I will always love you.”

Hear the words and feel the touch inside yourself as if they were coming from a beloved elder.

Notice the effect on your breath, body, energies and emotions.

I have tried this practice several times in the past 24 hours.

Sometimes it lands deeply, and I feel warmth, I feel loved and hopeful.

Sometimes I hear the words and don’t feel any emotion. Yet even in those instances, I notice that my breath still deepens and my energy softens upon hearing these words.

Happy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays!

May you remember who you are.

May you remember that you are beloved.

May you find a firm connection to your courage, your grace, your gratitude, and your peace. Even when chaos rains and reigns within and without.

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Slowing in the Intensity

Self Practice Supports Us!

When there is intensity in my body
(or even when there isn’t):

“I am slowing down.
I am noticing my breath.
I am feeling my feet.
I am simply making space for whatever is in this body
right now that wants to be felt.”

“I am open to less constriction and contraction.
I am open to a greater flow of life force energy,
blood, lymph, nervous system information
and connection throughout my body.”

“I am willing to feel and hold discomfort in the process of softening, opening, and moving toward healing.”

I am open to the possibility

Self Practice Supports Us!

Try this:

“I am open to the possibility that what I want so much but feels so daunting can actually happen, not necessarily exactly how I might have imagined it happening.

I invite all the layers of my body and mind to soften toward that possibility.”

You are forgiven for the things you do to manage your anxiety and overwhelm

Self Practice Supports Us!

You are forgiven for the things you do to manage your anxiety and overwhelm.

Can you slow down and allow that compassion and forgiveness?

Forgiveness and compassion actually make it more possible to not indulge in our addictions and compulsions.

Because when we feel shame and guilt, it ramps up the very pressure that drives us toward our addictions.

Compassion facilitates breath, space, and room to be, which allow for more capacity to make choices that help us.

You are loved. You are forgiven. You are important.

Remnants

Self Practice Supports Us!

Due to remnants of past trauma,

my body feels that something is terribly wrong.

I look around my life to find the threat.

Circumstances feel like Problems.

Challenges feel like Emergencies.

I am learning to disbelieve my feelings of threat in the absence of compelling evidence.

I am open to experience:

“Everything is OK Enough”

Space to Just Be

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I need space to be, to just be, where I am not receiving messages from others telling me that I’m wrong about what I feel, or wrong about what I need, or wrong about what I know about myself, or just generally wrong.

It is difficult enough to clear the internal messages on that channel, without reinforcement of those destructive messages from those around us.

It is ok to deliberately look for those safe spaces and to deliberately avoid places and people who give us invalidating messages.

This is not about denying my/our need for continued insight, growth and improvement. It’s about creating the space that makes those improvements possible.

The cry of Developmental Trauma in surviving adults

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Underneath the layers of survival, the cry of Developmental Trauma in surviving adults may be this:

 “Please sit with me, care for me and be with me. I’m hurting and in need. It’s been so painful and unsafe that I haven’t even been able to feel and remember how bad it was.”

It’s tricky. 

Each of us needs the other to be profoundly gentle and understanding, while we ourselves are often clumsy or lost.

So we fall down a lot but keep choosing again to bring tenderness and forgiveness to ourselves and the people in our lives.