Internal Healing with Jo

I have lived experience and a passion to work with young people. I want them to feel safe in expressing all emotions and gain an understanding as to why:

They are feeling anxious.

Having feelings of depression and disconnection.

Experiencing recurring Behaviour that is impacting them daily through anger, procrastination, withdrawal, addictions, or self-sabotage.

For our young people, suppressing emotions is to avoid feeling discomfort. It is a way of protecting themselves from uncomfortable feels. Feelings experienced from traumatic events (big or small) or an overall feeling of not feeling safe and protected due to circumstances. What I want for our young people is to understand that emotions are feelings that serve a purpose, provide direction and communication from the body, deep within. Negative emotions are just as important and useful, even if they are uncomfortable at times.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE EMBODIED?

Embodied Processing is the bottom-up approach to healing trauma and a dysregulated nervous system. Our nervous system either regulates stress or gets stuck in stress. When it gets stuck in stress our nervous system goes into a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.

This powerful technique is used to safely meet and digest the underlying wounds, the orphaned parts where we suppress and kept the traumatic events (big or small) at arm’s length.

The orphaned part is protecting ourselves from particular traumatic events happening again and avoiding those emotions that were triggered during these events.
Yes, it keeps us safe, but what happens, is our nervous system goes into survival stress, This survival stress doesn’t allow us to meet the trauma and close the loop. Therefore, it becomes the driving force of our current symptoms – Addiction, Co-dependency, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Disassociation, self-sabotage, physical pain etc…

Learning to be with our experiences, meeting our experiences from our past, feeling and housing those experiences within our body allows us to feel safe and bring our nervous system to a regulated state.

When the body is included in the healing process, long term transformation happens

Trapped Emotion Clearing is a form of energy healing. With our body being made of energy, it is a gentle healing modality that can help to provide relief from physical and emotional issues. It is an incredibly powerful tool for all ages, especially for helping children to feel safe and enable them to process their emotions and reconnect. It uses our subconscious mind to find, and release trapped emotions.

Trapped emotions are when we may have experienced a traumatic event (big or small) and we choose to block it out by not processing the feelings experienced.
So, instead of moving beyond an angry moment, a feeling of grief or depression, you retain the negative emotion within the body. This can potentially cause physical or emotional stress, and imbalance within the body.

When a trapped emotion is released, a burden is lifted, and results can bring a sense of calmness, balance, and healing.