As a wellness practitioner one of the most frustrating aspects about my work is the stigmas (especially for men) standing in the way of more people actively participating in trauma healing & their emotional health. I hope I can break some of those stigmas down through helping people understand that a lot of holistic wellness practices aren’t as abstract as they may seem or feel. Our bodies, above all else, are wired for survival. Our emotions are information, our thoughts are rationalisations. We cannot separate these aspects of our processing out from one another. They are inherently interconnect and informing one another constantly. When you feel discomfort/fear/threatened/unsafe emotionally your body responds and this causes a cascade of biochemical events. Your body stores this information and because we are wired to maintain homeostasis the rationalisation in response is more often than not one of avoidance and when what we seek to avoid stands between us and self actualisat...