Dena Halle

06/10/2023

That picture-perfect lefty swing 📸

15 years ago to the day, The Kid launched career HR #600.

04/17/2021

Forgive yourself ❤️

And if you desire support in reconnection with your body please reach out for a complimentary discovery call to see how support will guide you back into your body.

https://DenaRamireHalleBodyMindCoaching.as.me/

When we experience an event that’s stressful past a point of tolerance, we cope by leaving our body.

This is our bodies way of protecting itself. If our nervous system becomes overwhelmed it becomes dysregulated. When we become dysregulated, we enter a state of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (please or appease) to survive or protect ourselves in the situation. This is when we leave the body.

Our brain enters survival mode. Often times we act in ways that seem like an “overreaction” or as if a switch went off + we are totally out of character. This begins a cycle of shame. We might have remorse for our behavior. We may feel anxious of guilty. We may feel confused like “how did that even happen?”

Leaving the body can look like:

1. Screaming, yelling, extreme venting

2. Becoming combative, highly defensive, or emotionally reactive

3. Engaging in uncomfortable or insecure sexual relationships/behaviors to cope

4. “Ghosting” a situation. Avoiding, hiding, out of deep fear of conflict

5. Disassociating: appearing fully present but mentally elsewhere (numbing)

We all leave our bodies. This is how we’ve adapted— + managed to stay alive.

Thank you, body.

Our nervous system is protecting us. Our work is to become more conscious, more in tune with its messages so we can learn to stay in the body regardless of external events + respond in *new* ways more aligned with who we actually are

08/27/2020

Hi, I'm Dena. I love helping inspired and dedicated massage therapists & bodyworkers, like you, nurture their businesses (and themselves) so they can move past stress and overwhelm, stop feeling stuck and build aligned and thriving practices.

08/10/2020

This ❤️

Good morning ..... keep watering ❤️

07/03/2020

I would love to hear what you are working on or what you have done! Let me know in the comments below!

Hi, I'm Dena. I love helping inspired and dedicated massage therapists & bodyworkers, like you, nurture their businesses (and themselves) so they can move past stress and overwhelm, stop feeling stuck and build aligned and thriving practices.

05/22/2020

Excerpt from an article by Kelly Brogan MD

What role does hope play? There is no savior
on a white horse. No doctor, politician, president who is going to make everything alright.

This is an inside job for each of us. It is time to adult, step into our power, resolve our internal and external conflicts with radical self-acceptance, compassion, and forgiveness, and begin to explore what it would be to recognize that the system isn’t broken, it was made this way.

Can we move beyond external forms of governance and the illusion that we need to be protected? That we don’t know how to care for and heal ourselves?

It may be time to find out, but it requires giving up all hope of salvation from the outside, and finding that deep faith, trust, and vigilant commitment to policing and governing oneself.

The truth is that we wake up when we are ready, and not one second sooner.

And as we do, we’ll need each other to walk the path into the wild unknown to the experience of freedom, joy, and simple beauty that has always been our birthright.

05/12/2020

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Hi, I'm Dena. I love helping inspired and dedicated massage therapists & bodyworkers, like you, nurture their businesses (and themselves) so they can move past stress and overwhelm, stop feeling stuck and build aligned and thriving practices.

05/11/2020

Hello friends ! Thanks for popping in. I do not spend a lot of time hear yet but please join me on my other page The Dena Way. This is where I’m hanging out these days and sharing life about my business offerings of bodywork and coaching, sharing resources, encouraging words, and tips on how to the best at being YOU!
So travel on over to The Dena Way ! I’ll see you there!

10/20/2019

The OTHER Serenity Prayer...

10/07/2019

Let go. Even for just a moment. Let go of controlling, future- tripping, allowing the stories to spin their webs around your peace of mind. Float, if for just three breaths. Allow the magic to do its thing. 💫

09/27/2019