Balance Body Healing Massage

11/30/2025

Practical Tools for Clinicians and Helpers. A live event with David Kessler.

11/28/2025

11/22/2025

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn aren’t choices, they’re survival responses.
We don't consciously choose how we respond.
These instincts are automatic survival responses wired into our brains. Understanding this can help us be kinder to ourselves when coping with trauma.

11/20/2025

For me , happiness is a practice ❤️Happiness as a choice doesn’t mean you force yourself to be cheerful.🩷 feelings a real . And ..

It means I can choose:
• where to place my attention,
• how to respond to what life brings,
• what stories I tell myself,
• what energy I cultivate,
• and who I allow close.

It’s not a mood.
It’s a practice.

It’s choosing:
• regulation over reaction
• gratitude over spiraling
• alignment over people-pleasing
• honesty over tension
• rest over resentment
• connection over avoidance
• intention over autopilot🩷

11/19/2025

Fawning is a hybrid response, activating the sympathetic (hyperarousal) and parasympathetic (hypoarousal) branches of the autonomic nervous system at the same time.

• The hyperarousal aspect of fawning has us instinctively managing the moods and states of those “in charge.” We lean into the very relationships that are causing us harm, appeasing our perpetrators while taking personal responsibility for all relational difficulties. Fawning can be incredibly active.

• But at the same time, we are detaching from ourselves. The hypoarousal of fawning numbs our connection to self, our broader sense of agency, and often, our ability to feel the effects of the abuse at all.

We are threading a fine needle when we fawn, neither risking greater harm through fight or flight, nor shutting down completely. This highly adaptive response is moving beyond playing dead to playing LIFE. We are playing pretend, and we don’t even know it. We are playing house, playing the game (to survive or escape our situation), playing a part—sometimes as many parts as there are people in our lives.

🌟Click the link in my bio to get a Free PDF on the Fawning Trauma Response and to order FAWNING: Why the need to please makes us lose ourselves – and how to find our way back. AVAILABLE NOW 🤗

11/13/2025

Trying to explain , that we learn our gait( walking patterns ) from our family .. 🩷 this is it folks

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQSSQCikmCg/?igsh=MWQ3M2FndW93ZmN4Zg==

11/10/2025

This is why we treat your hips for low back pain :)

11/04/2025

This would be good !

11/02/2025

I’ll be bringing you some yoga classes soon ! 😉

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10/29/2025

Happy Tuesday! online booing is now open for next year! Yay !! So if there is a day and time you like better pop in there....
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