How Somatics Secure Sobriety
- Brainz Magazine
- Jun 20, 2024
- 2 min read
Written by Colleen Faltot, Energetic Weight Loss Coach
I've guided countless individuals to sustainable weight loss by empowering them to master their emotions, fostering an unyielding mindset and a healthy body.
We’re all addicted to something. Addiction is literally a person’s attempt to regulate their nervous system your phones, negative thinking, shopping, food, substances, etc.
None of it is a choice of moral failing. it’s all a symptom not the root issue.
Some addictions obviously negatively impact someone’s life in a much deeper way than others of course.
But until you heal the root issue you’ll bounce around from one dopamine hit to another one The root of all addictive patterns is your nervous system.
This is where somatics come in.
It allows you to build your confidence from the inside out focusing on your nervous system / physical body first.
Then tapping into your subconscious mind when your nervous system is regulated to rewire belief patterns that aren’t serving you.
Movement, breathwork and music (I take this to all things you read or listen to) Is either going to heal or hurt your nervous system.
Not moving or HIIT training heightens your nervous system.
LISS (low intensity steady state cardio) and low impact strength training down regulates your nervous system and signals to your body its “safe”.
Shallow, constricted breathing is heightening your fight or flight nervous system response And full body low inhale, low exhale breathing is helping your nervous system.
Listening to / reading things that are intense and loud heighten your nervous system.
Chill beats, healing frequencies, etc down regulate your nervous system and signal to your subconscious energy it’s safe.
Everything we’re doing is either helping us or hurting us.
That’s not to say we should be super clean / healthy focused 24/7.
Because that just perpetuates suppressed emotions and leads to binge / restrict cycles most of the time.
To really heal the root of your addiction whatever it is.
You need to focus on your nervous system, depending on the addiction of course at time you need to focus on that first, being someone who has to go to rehab for alcohol but we need to look at that as a symptom to be able to get to the root.
When you learn how to feel safe first in your physical body, 80% of the work Then in your energetic body, 20% of the work.
You’re able to find the sobriety you’re looking for Somatic sobriety is the only path to true freedom.
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Colleen Faltot, Energetic Weight Loss Coach
I've guided countless individuals to sustainable weight loss by empowering them to master their emotions, fostering an unyielding mindset and a healthy body. As a woman in recovery from alcoholism, an eating disorder, codependency, and anxiety, I leverage a proven methodology to address root wounds, transforming pain into purpose through somatic healing and subconscious rewiring.
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