Get Uncomfortable and Affirm your Life

Being uncomfortable or feeling your pain is life-affirming.

How many of you believe this statement?

When I think back on the last five years post-divorce, I have to say I am not comfortable most of the time.

I am stretching to be the person I always wanted to be.

I did not have the tools to be this person in my previous life. I was not willing to risk upsetting the status quo in my family of origin or my marriage.

The thought of living a life different from the one I created terrified me, and yet I was uncomfortable in my skin all of the time.

I chose to use my divorce as a time to embrace uncomfortableness, pain, and grief.

I continue to embrace these emotions even now a thousand times in a thousand different ways. Always uncomfortable and usually afraid, but much more connected and fulfilled with who i am.

I work with people every day who are terrified. They are scared to reach for something new because it might be painful even though what they are doing now does not work.

The cost is high when we stay comfortable and with what is not working.

We slowly sink into the roles of life instead of embracing it because we don't want to risk feeling uncomfortable.

Yet by not taking the risk, we are always restless; we just don't see it. The restlessness shows itself in behaviors that we would like to change.

Talking about facing our fears takes some of the sting off, and we usually believe we have shifted something just by that, and maybe we have.

diving in and feeling the emotion we run from is transformational by itself.

Allowing something we have kept at bay entrance into our sense of feeling is freedom.

The overwhelming feelings can be felt and moved on from in a very positive, gentle way.

“Suddenly where we held fear, we can begin to find courage.

Where we stored our grief, we can start to sense love.
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Somatic therapy gently guides open the places of pent up emotion that we stuff down daily.

We learn to feel in a way that is not overwhelming.

Give me a call or email me to set up a 15-minute Somatic Therapy consultation, and let us work on this together.