I just got back from being on holidays. I want to tell you briefly about my holiday because it does have to do with brain retraining after all. Imagine getting together with 15 others who have also been actively working with healing their nervous systems. They have all been through tough experiences and challenging life happenings, whatever it was they went through that led them to choose nervous system healing. By taking the leap and choosing to do the hard work, they were able to rise up and find a better way. A way of hope, a way of healing, a way of change. This last week we held a reunion with a number of the people that were part of my coaching group the last year and a half. We had been meeting every week over zoom for an hour, doing a mixture of mood elevation, somatics, win sharing, and discussions on topics pertaining to healing where we would learn from each other. It was a very uplifting space where everyone was included with love. A place of belonging for this time in their healing. Many of us had not ever met in person and so we had anticipation amongst all the great excitement. Would we easily flow as friends in person?
The 3 days we were together were an experience I find hard to put into words. With this kind of nervous system work it’s not like talk therapy where we talk and talk about our symptoms and diagnosis. In fact, amongst our group, there are those who still, after a year of seeing each other do not know what everyone’s past story is. But there’s understanding because we all have been through tough things. Over the course of the 3 days, little stories would come out here and there that would put us in awe of the amount of healing that had really happened. A mother expressed preparing to say goodbye to her daughter a few years ago because she was so sick. That daughter was there this last week, life of the party with no sign of illness. There were those who had once been on a strict no gluten diet and now ate whatever they wanted. There were those who were nearly bed bound at one point in their life, now enjoying the beauty of a life of health. There were those who had nearly lost their life to covid and then suffered from long covid, now vibrant with life. There were those who had suffered debilitating anxiety to the point of never leaving their house, now able to travel. There were those who had suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction to the point of only focusing on survival now being physically active and enjoying an abundant life. There were those who at one point were simply failing to thrive, trying to get through the pain, struggling with their mental health in some way, that made it to the reunion and had win after win.
We spent 3 days of laughing, having heart felt conversations, connecting, eating yummy food, and just being together. At one point while we were taking a sunset sail, I stepped away to the railing, looking out over the lake, the endless trees surrounding the lake with little cabins tucked in them, the sun setting over a gathering of clouds and felt unworthy. I felt such gratitude for this life. This life of healing that has happened for myself and all of these individuals. How did I get so lucky to be part of this? There are so many who need this. It’s not weird stuff, its basic tools we’ve had within us all along but just needed to learn. One by one we will help those who need it. This group has been such a place of belonging. A place of uplifting and encouraging each other. I thank God for giving us this.
Happy day to you all,
hp
