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Emotional healing is a journey that unfolds in layers, seasons, and cycles. It’s not a straight path but a continual process of tending to ourselves, growing, and recalibrating.
The Levels of Emotional Healing provide a roadmap, helping us understand what’s needed at each stage whether it’s creating safety in the body, processing deep emotions, or embracing lasting change.
Wherever you are in your journey, know that we're cheering you on and every effort counts.
Let’s dive in.
Levels of Emotional Healing:
Getting the body safe.
This involves getting enough good sleep, good nutrition, plenty of water, movement, breath, and optimal temperature balance, in safe spaces. These basics have a powerful influence on our mood, resilience, and cognition. If you aren't getting enough of these needs met, you can't get further...
Getting the body regulated.
This is all about using the body to convince the nervous system and Survival Brain that no predator needs to be expected. It relies on parasympathetic nervous system activation, neurochemical maintenance, and/or "prediction error" correction. If you can't meet these needs, then emotional work can be traumatizing...
Tending surface emotion.
When feelings come up and we're safe enough to express them – then we consciously Notice them, we Name them, and we stay in Touch with the experience of them. This helps process emotion, and teach our nervous system that we’re safe to engage with emotion. If you can't sit with the feeling, you can't access the healing...
Releasing historical emotion.
This is where feelings are friends, and we go gently looking for how we can help our friends out. It involves deeper release, deeper integration, and deeper rewiring of our "neural habits" regarding emotional processing. If you can process and release historical emotion, you can heal from trauma…
Surrendering to change.
This is about living differently than we did before, taking better care of ourselves, allowing relationships and circumstances to evolve with us, continuing to choose our own healing, while avoiding complacency. If you can make healing a practice, you can create permanent change…
Being the change/changed/changing.
This is about both allowing our self to be who we really are, and to become who we're here to become, while staying more focused on being in the journey than arriving. It asks that we keep doing everything we've been doing (above), while being fully open to all we can do now. If you can truly see your self, you can do anything…
Each of these are cyclical, seasonal, perpetual. We need them all to really heal. And we never finish. If you can get used to that, you'll do extremely well here.
And if you find that you need support along the way, our global team of compassionate coaches is here to navigate these waters with you. One of these beautiful people could be your personal emotional healing champion.
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Sending you love.
With care,
Nathan and Natalie