06/25/2025
Ever feel like life is taking its toll on your mind, heart, and body? As a highly sensitive person and super deep feeler, I know that feeling! We humans have lots of (mostly unconscious) strategies to avoid feeling stuff when it's overwhelming. See if any of these resonate... Do you ever:
👉🏼 start to zone out or feel floaty when something has happened that makes you feel sad, or mad?
👉🏼 quickly change the topic (either in conversation or in your mental chatter) when something hard comes up?
👉🏼 force yourself to suck it up and move on when there are tears?
👉🏼 ever feel like running when you're in a conversation that involves big emotions?
👉🏼 keep going and act like nothing's wrong when actually you're angry about something?
👉🏼 get overwhelmed when you think of something or someone you've lost or that you miss?
👉🏼 feel as if you're drowning, like life is just too much, or that you're "too sensitive"?
👉🏼 keep your anger under wraps 99% of the time, but then occasionally blow up over something mild?
👉🏼 cry often but don't know why or about what?
👉🏼 find yourself angry and irritable at the wrong people, and are unclear or confused about why?
👉🏼 feel like emotions are a waste of time and just get in the way?
👉🏼 often feel like you're a pressure cooker about to explode?
👉🏼 live in your head and find yourself over-analyzing situations?
All of these scenarios are different ways our system may try to handle emotions when we have not been taught or shown how to truly FEEL, MOVE THROUGH, and COME OUT OF big emotional experiences.
Emotions are actually deeply neurobiological processes that are experienced in the body. When we don't know how to ALLOW and MOVE THROUGH our emotions and other stressors efficiently and instead are consumed by them OR avoid, stuff, or numb out or distract ourselves from them, we often end up with physical tension somewhere, like tight shoulders, low back pain, TMJ issues, headaches, abdominal pain, tight hips, difficulty breathing, etc. The body takes the toll when we halt, in one way or another, the organic emotional processes that arise in life.
If you want to learn a different way to handle stress and emotions, I invite you to join us for our upcoming Feel to Heal Program, beginning on August 4. It is an 8-week program that meets weekly for 2 hours on Monday evenings, from Aug 4 to Oct 6. In it, I'll teach you how to bring the body into the way you process stress and emotions, which makes it a LOT more efficient and reduces tension. Sometimes people are amazed at the muscular tension and chronic pain patterns that melt away when they learn these life skills.
I developed this trauma-informed, neuroscience-based program back in 2022 and have been running rounds of it since. It was born out of me wanting to combine and deliver to my beloved west Indy community all the best trainings on the nervous system, chronic pain, movement, emotional processing, somatics, trauma, and stress physiology. And there are many people right here in our community who can attest to its value. I've pasted 3 testimonials further down, but there are dozens more on our website, at the link provided below.
Visit the website (www.studioAbody.com/feel-to-heal) for more details and pricing, and to sign up. Let's learn what we all should have been taught a really long time ago about how to move through stressful situations and difficult emotions, and free our body up from the burden of carrying lots of unprocessed stuff. 🙂
Here are the testimonials I promised (more on the website):
"I can't say enough about this program! I wish every person in the world could have access to this exact program. The information is life-changing... I've never felt so equipped in my life."
"I loved it and wish the classes could keep going. It was so well done -- a wonderful balance of information, visuals, examples, levity, and gentle somatic exercises. It has made me feel like I am not broken... the program has given me tools to move through "triggers" with new insight and skills. I want to recommend this to all my friends."
"I could write a whole email of how this class has changed my life. I’m not being dramatic either. You helped me break trauma cycles and see level-headed when I’m being gaslit and not step into that. This class has been so beneficial and I want to stand on rooftops and tell everyone to do it! Thank you Studio A for being such an amazing trauma informed education source in Indy! Thank you so much for leaning in and sharing with the rest of us the powerful tools you know."
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