Cultivated Change

Cultivated Change Primal Health Coach
Helping people reclaim fundamental health

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A lot of my posts over this year have touched on nervous system regulation, survival stress, and traumatic/peri-traumati...
06/12/2024

A lot of my posts over this year have touched on nervous system regulation, survival stress, and traumatic/peri-traumatic experiences that I uncovered.

This was the course I was going through to learn how to regulate my nervous system, complete incomplete survival cycles, and cue into my posture, emotions, facial movements, and all the small yet overwhelming ways my body was telling me where I needed to focus my awareness on.

The first month of this class EXTREMELY triggering in of itself, simply learning how our childhood bodies adapted to the nervous systems and communication of our parents, families, and friends to get our needs met and keep us safe.

Going through this at the same time as therapy (and an embodied intimacy 10 week course) had my body trembling at least half of the week as I opened the floodgates of my stored childhood (which I count till 33) emotions and incomplete survival response systems.

For someone who didn't really know how to express their internal world or say NO, this meant feeling all of that unprocessed anger, grief (like, bottomless pit), frustration, bitterness, confusion, and every other emotion that I suppressed.

This course used Polyvagal theory, which I resonate with far more than just sympathetic/parasympathetic branches of the nervous system and accurately described my yo-yo between dorsal (shut down) and hyper activated via caffeine and stimulants. All to try to feel more alive.

Being in dorsal (think opossum feign for death) or fawning (people pleasing) feels a lot like apathy/depression, which I have been all too familiar with since 18 years old.

The thing I learned most from this course and from Alexandria Kenyon was to FEEL EVERYTHING. All emotions. I have a daily practice before bed where I journal and give my body permission to release and I usually cry for a couple of minutes. Not necessarily from something that happened that day, but from anything I couldn't or didn't process at the present time.

The book Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve is remarkably helpful for exercises or just series of rotations to touch or manipulate your nerves to help them come back to neutral if you don't want to go through an entire course...

I am still untangling my northern NH upbringing around money, survival, and scarcity.Growing up in a literal Game of Thr...
06/06/2024

I am still untangling my northern NH upbringing around money, survival, and scarcity.

Growing up in a literal Game of Thrones environment where Winter is Always Coming and people start chopping firewood in August bred scarcity into my psyche.

Always hoarding, preparing, and storing resources.

It was unconsciously engrained in me to conserve and never to throw things away, never let anything go. It wasn't until I left to learn how to farm in Hawaii that I was able to start deconstructing that mindset and start letting abundance in, because the environment allowed for it.

Even then, my ability to receive was still tied to my worth, how much I felt like I deserved something. Did I work for it? Did I grow my own food? Did I have sweat equity in it?

It's only really been in the last couple of years through some deep meditative rewiring and energetic training that I have been able to let go and let my charitable side out.

Probably the most impactful thing for cultivating a frequency of abundance was a 21 Day meditation and journaling practice hosted by a business mentor group. It was the first time I had started my day in a frequency of gratitude, abundance, and ease, consistently.

It was also the first time I got to write down and feel some of my core wounds of

unworthiness
deservingness
unlovableness

and pull up memories of my mother reinforcing those core beliefs.

During that 21 days was the most charitable I have ever felt, and I gave lots of money to friends that needed it, and lots of money (more than I had ever received by working) came back to me through a dropshipping enterprise I am a part of.

It was the first time I didn't have to live in survival in my adult life and paired how to heart, body, and mind felt.

It showed me what heart-brain coherence was and started crumbling the "if I don't trade hours for dollars I'll starve"

Every day I still have to be mindful of my language around it, and it certainly didn't shift overnight, but it only takes an awareness shift!

Thank you to for the introduction to the energetics of money. I am still untangling my northern NH upbringing around mo...
06/06/2024

Thank you to for the introduction to the energetics of money.

I am still untangling my northern NH upbringing around money, survival, and scarcity.

Growing up in a literal Game of Thrones environment where Winter is Always Coming and people start chopping firewood in August bred scarcity into my psyche.

Always hoarding, preparing, and storing resources.

It was unconsciously engrained in me to conserve and never to throw things away, never let anything go. It wasn't until I left to learn how to farm in Hawaii that I was able to start deconstructing that mindset and start letting abundance in, because the environment allowed for it.

Even then, my ability to receive was still tied to my worth, how much I felt like I deserved something. Did I work for it? Did I grow my own food? Did I have sweat equity in it?

It's only really been in the last couple of years through some deep meditative rewiring and energetic training that I have been able to let go and let my charitable side out.

Probably the most impactful thing for cultivating a frequency of abundance was a 21 Day meditation and journaling practice hosted by a business mentor group. It was the first time I had started my day in a frequency of gratitude, abundance, and ease, consistently.

It was also the first time I got to write down and feel some of my core wounds of

unworthiness
deservingness
unlovableness

and pull up memories of my mother reinforcing those core beliefs.

During that 21 days was the most charitable I have ever felt, and I gave lots of money to friends that needed it, and lots of money (more than I had ever received by working) came back to me through a dropshipping enterprise I am a part of.

It was the first time I didn't have to live in survival in my adult life and paired how to heart, body, and mind felt.

It showed me what heart-brain coherence was and started crumbling the "if I don't trade hours for dollars I'll starve"

It awakened me to leverage and to compounding interest of time.


The community of (at least) 7 beings that comprises the foundation of the masculine soul, arranged as I have come into c...
05/30/2024

The community of (at least) 7 beings that comprises the foundation of the masculine soul, arranged as I have come into contact from them in my life, inspired by Robert Bly in Iron John

The Wild Man: The spirit and protector of the natural world. Energizes cultivation of each type and arc of development. Initiates a boy to steal the key from underneath his mother's pillow (separate his energy from his mother's womb) and maintains self-awareness of the psyche for clear sight

The Lover: Passion, connectivity, appreciative consciousnes.Garden work. Eros: delight mixed with danger. Resonance. The track of the moon on the water.

The Magician/Mythologist: Wisdom and Insight - how to move from one stage to another. Deals with invisible energies in the world. If a man's emotional body is crippled in childhood, Magician may survive and develop the intellectual body to ascend and keep sane

The Trickster: Does not go with the flow, but reverses it as soon as he sees what direction it's flowing, so that the larger energy continues to move. Humbles/balances king energy

The King: Order and creation. When present, there is a sacred space free of chaos. Does not create order, where he is, there is order. Blesses + encourages creativity in the realm.

The Grief Man: The road of ashes, descent, and the crumbling, entropic nature of reality. Acceptance of the ugly facts of childhood, disorganization, abuse, abandonment, & lack of protection.

The Warrior: Strength, discipline, boundaries in service to a transcendent purpose - to the True King. Strategy, heat, electric energy, boundaries, adversarial. Informs & allows the body to endure hardship. Often wounded in childhood when parents' needs/emotions overwhelm our own.

Which do you feel like you were gifted with the knowledge of and which do you feel you have had to discover and nurture?

Protect your hormones and energy. Microplastics (down to 0.5 micron) are not only in thin plastic ware, they are in the ...
05/25/2024

Protect your hormones and energy. Microplastics (down to 0.5 micron) are not only in thin plastic ware, they are in the water (just check your water filter on your shower sometime. And those are the big ones.

Getting a water filter certified to remove microplastics and 85 other classes of contaminants in the only fullproof and often the cheapest option.

Remember, even glass bottled watet is just someone elses' tap water. Yes, spring water as well. The regulations around spring water are a lot like the regulations around fruit juice.

Message if you need help finding a good filter

Posted • A new study in published in Toxicological Sciences found microplastics are detected in human as well dog testicles. This is just two months after the NEJM reported plastics are found in carotid artery plaque, increasing risk of heart disease and stroke.

It’s time to be really intentional about avoiding exposure to all sources of thin plastic as well as disposable cups! 🙏🏽

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