Meredith Ellis - IFS & Somatic Trauma TherapistLicensed Professional Counselor, LPC, MEd

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Do you ever get this feeling like you don't belong? Like everyone else is able to just enjoy a nice day while you are inexplicably a category 5 hurricane inside? It's exhausting trying so hard to look "okay" when your body always feels like it's fleeing or fighting a bear. Listen, I know. I've been there. You are not broken, bad, or defective. At some point, your body learned it needed to protect you from life, and this is the best way it knows how. Unfortunately, because it thinks you're under threat and need protection, your body offers help in the forms of intensity, panic, and collapse- keeping you stuck in a survival loop. View 6 Photos The good news is, our nervous systems CAN be shifted out of reactivity and into confident presence. Old emotional wounds your warrior body is now treating like landmines can heal into fertile soil for transformation. Beyond survival lies the un-lived life you’ve been missing—one of connection, joy, possibility, and the freedom to finally be yourself.

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