Pam Nelson, LPC, TIYT/Therapeutic Yoga Services, LLC

04/18/2023

✨2 SPACES LEFT✨

EXALTED EASE: A Tulsa Trauma-Informed Yoga Program For Anxiety

✨The vision:✨
A safe space for people who struggle with anxiety to calm their anxious minds, soothe their exhausted bodies and renew their spirits with warm-hearted community.

The program consists of:
💓In-person, small group Trauma-Informed Yoga classes

💓In-person, small group Yoga Nidra meditation and movement

💓Online, guided group meditations

💓Self-regulation (anxiety reducing) skill building

💓FUN and community building: small group social events and support with those who share similar struggles…and strengths!

❤️Does your heart say, “YES”, when reading this? Classes start in May, but my sign-up list is already filling up! Visit https://therapeutic-yoga-services-llc.mykajabi.com/exalted-ease-1 for more info and to secure your spot!❤️

Peace to you! 💕-Pam

This program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offers Trauma-Informed Yoga for anxiety and meditation classes along with support and connection from a warm-hearted group of trauma survivors and those who struggle with anxiety. Led by Pam Nelson, licensed trauma therapist and assisted by Henry, the therapy dog!

06/15/2022

You are a blessing to our communities, and you deserve to rest. I’ve devoted much of my free time over the past week to creating a free gift just for you. ⭐️ Visit https://yogaforanxiety.ck.page/tipsforschoolstaff and I will send it your way!⭐️

I worked in/with the public school system for 16 years before opening my private therapy practice. I’ve seen firsthand the incredible amount of stress you are under. You have been in a state of survival for 10 months straight. Most teachers/staff go one of two routes: they are so exhausted by summertime, they collapse into a state of hypoarousal (shutdown, fatigued, and motivated, emotionally and/or physically numb and disconnected). Sometimes, once you are down, it is really hard to get back up. The entire summer goes by in a flash.

Or, the opposite: you have to stay so busy with your summer job, caring for children, etc., and you stay stuck in an escalated state. You have difficulty relaxing and resting at all. The summer ends and you were barely able to breathe.

Then, the cycle starts all over again.

In honor of all the teachers I know and love, I created this ✨✨free resource✨ ✨to help this summer feel different. Learn about nervous system dysregulation and easy tips you can immediately incorporate to help you get the balance between movement and rest you so desperately need…and deserve!

⬇️Tag a teacher/school staff member who deserves some love this summer!

Peace to you! 💕-Pam
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05/27/2022

I know it’s incredibly frustrating when your body/mind responds this way, but here’s the reality: You are a survivor. Getting anxious or shutting down to avoid danger and discomfort is how you’ve survived this long. Your mind, body, and spirit did an amazing job protecting you. The strength and resilience that enabled you to make it to adulthood can now be your fuel to consistently do the work it takes to create a new life, learning to live through love rather than fear.

✨Step One: Begin to develop a vocabulary for your emotions so you are able to name and validate the wounded parts of you (see previous posts).

✨Step Two: Learn to regulate your nervous system and soothe your anxious Inner Child. I created the Release, Relax, Redirect Method© as a simple way for you to begin. ⭐️⭐️ Go to https://yogaforanxiety.ck.page/359e451573 for a free mini-course to introduce yourself to this method. Includes videos with which you can follow along!⭐️⭐️

These two steps can be life-changing. They were for me! You deserve a joyful, wholehearted life - and, if you choose - you can start right now.

Peace to you! 💕 -Pam
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05/22/2022

Rewarding Henry for all the love he gives inside and outside the therapy room with some new smells to sniff! It’s such a beautiful day in Tulsa ☀️Anyone know what that last plant is? They were growing everywhere and I thought they were pretty.

How did you enjoy the day? Connect with us by sharing ⬇️⬇️

Peace to you! 💕

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05/17/2022

Imagine what it would have been like to have a loving adult attuned to your needs, always there to help you understand and manage the emotions you were feeling?

This is what you needed, this is what you deserved.

Suppressing or numbing your emotions, distracting yourself from them, or even caring for other people instead of yourself may have been the best way to survive your childhood. It is no longer serving you as an adult.

If you did not receive this emotional care in childhood, you can begin the process of reparenting your Inner Child with this simple but powerful act: Learning a vocabulary for your emotions.

Most of us use words like mad, sad, scared, happy… But that doesn’t really even begin to cover the vast range of emotions that human beings experience.

When you can pinpoint the word(s) that describe exactly what you are feeling, this validation of your experience is healing in itself. Pausing to allow your Inner Child to finally be heard is healing.

Just as sometimes you need a friend to listen and not necessarily jump in to fix things, your Inner Child sometimes just needs to be heard. Even just naming your emotion can significantly reduce the intensity of your distress.

Use an emotions wheel (see previous post) to begin familiarizing yourself with this new vocabulary. Then, when you feel distressed, take a moment to pause, attune to your Inner Child, and choose the word that best describes how you feel.

Do you have other ways you help yourself sort out what you are feeling? Please share below so others may benefit from your wisdom! ⬇️ ⬇️

Peace to you! 💕
-Pam

*This video is an excerpt from my online self-study called, “Soothe My Soul: Trauma-Informed Yoga & Education To Reparent Your Anxious Inner Child”. Link in bio

03/27/2021

🔈on! Inviting comfort and joy via all 5 senses is a lovely way to self-soothe! This technique is one component of a module in my Inner Child soothing course, and I’m practicing it as I’m deep in creation of the course’s Part #2.

I’m sunken into softness, feeling enveloped by my favorite leather chair.

When I glance up, I have a view of my beloved pink velvet couch with my favorite pillow I found at a street market in Thailand.

I rest my eyes from the computer screen by watching the birds and squirrels in my backyard (can you spot the little squirrel standing at attention?).

I listen to the birds chirp and the soft clanking sounds of my bamboo wind chimes.

I taste the coolness of the matcha/kale/fruit smoothie that is nourishing me and giving me stamina to create.

I smell the fresh Spring air floating in through the screen.

All these give me joy and contentment, keeping me well in body, mind, and spirit while creating.

What are your favorite ways to bring in joy through any or all of your 5 senses? How could you surround yourself with these comforts in the places in which you spend the most time?

I’d love to hear your creative ideas...please share!

Peace to you! -💕-Pam

P.S. Stay tuned for the launch of my Inner Child course! Email me pam@pamnelsontherapy.com if you'd like to be on a notification list when it’s ready.

02/15/2021

✨BEGINS THURSDAY! I am so excited to share this course after months of research and implementing the concepts in my own life! Classes are pre-recorded and emailed to you weekly for your convenience - watch them when the time is right for you. $83 investment for the entire first course (4 weeks of classes). Part 2 & 3 to follow! Register here: https://www.pamnelsontherapy.com/upcomingevents/

✨Is your Inner Child saying, “YES!”, to this course but your adult mind is worrying about an extremely tight budget? Email me at pam@pamnelsontherapy.com for info re: financial assistance.

Peace to you! 💕 - Pam

01/05/2021

✨New Year’s resolutions/reflections are impossible for you to form when you are freaking out. Download your free anxiety relief course so I can teach you my Release, Relax, Redirect Method ©. Soothe your system so you can find meaning in the chaos that was 2020! https://yogaforanxiety.ck.page/359e451573

💛Tag a friend and share the comfort! ⬇️

Peace to you! 💕

✨P.S. If you need a little more help grounding, try full length Therapeutic Yoga for Anxiety classes on my membership site! You can click here for more info: https://www.pamnelsontherapy.com/yoga-videos-login/?mepr-unauth-page=1115&redirect_to=%2Fyoga-videos

✨Or, join my weekly online Therapeutic Yoga For Anxiety Class! https://sunny-artisan-3352.ck.page/c0ff71ceab

01/01/2021

✨2020 was so hard. Let’s make 2021 the year we empower ourselves to learn tools to help relieve anxiety and access peace! I’m so excited to share this gift with you 💜 Click here and I’ll send you this introduction to my Release, Relax, Redirect Method© right away: https://yogaforanxiety.ck.page/359e451573

Peace to you! 💕

12/31/2020

✨Please, say it with me: I see the light at the end of the tunnel of darkness I felt in 2020. I will choose to summon up the power within me to soothe all my scared and wounded parts so that I may exude love for myself and others. I will make 2021 My Year of Empowerment✨

✨Sound like a lofty goal? I’d like to help. Watch for my announcement tomorrow...I’ve created a free resource to help you on this mission!

✨P.S. A big thank you to my partner for snapping this pic of me and patiently waiting while I tried to balance on rocks! 🤣

Happy NYE! Peace to you! 💕