10/11/2024
World Mental Health Day...
Why I devoted my life to this work...
In 2014 after my first of eight 30-day stays in a
treatment center for alcohol dependency
I knew I would not stay-stopped drinking unless I learned
how to feel SAFE in my body by intimately l
earning my nervous system
I heard from doctors, therapists, and people in support groups that it was all in my mind and I was just another 'alcoholic' and if I would just do what I was told my life would change
Yet, I knew It was a deeper healing journey for me
For as long as I can remember, I felt extremely uncomfortable in my body
I struggled to self-soothe as a child and it was difficult for my care givers to soothe me
My nervous system was stuck in hypervigilance
As a highly sensitive person, there is the added bonus of feeling and sensing all the stimuli and emotions in and around the field
So, I adapted by finding things outside of myself that soothed my system. Stuffed animals, a blankie, my grandma's hands and then as I grew up food, dramatic relationships, school, alcohol, s*x, work, success, Bikram yoga whatever it was I easily became 'addicted' to the sense of RELIEF I experienced
In 2014, I made a decision to devote my life to learning & personally experimenting with all the non-traditional somatic ways I could experience healing my system and my trauma.
This experiment was dangerous, yet, it was the journey I chose.
When I felt overwhelmed, I would easily become blended with a part of me that was determined that su***de was the only answer and I would attempt to drink & medicate myself into a slumber I would never wake up from...yet I did.
And in between those overwhelming, blended episodes (my family came to call them) I would be back in my studies and experimenting with my body and how my internal parts worked together mapping out a system so I could observe my behaviors
It took me about 2 years to choose to become self-led and stay stopped drinking & feel confident that I would commit to holding myself steady as my system located a new normal after all I put myself through in those years
Within 3 months, I did. I followed the map I created of my parts and my nervous system to interrupt myself from 'sabotaging' my life and it worked to show me my patterns and course correct when one of my parts was trying to protect me with old coping strategies
In 2016, I devoted my life to creating awareness about the importance of mental wellness through root-cause trauma-trained modalities, the nervous system, gut health, and somatic healing
It is still a practice, a moment-to-moment jam, training my mind to serve my body to choose the new grooves rather than the old survival strategies
Training my parts to work together in their new roles and I would not have it any other way
It's freedom...it's a way of life where I get to be of service and in my fullest, weirdest, wildest expression that makes sense to me
Mental wellness continues to be misunderstood, underfunded, over-medicated and thought of as a luxury
Yet, in my experience attuning to and Regroovin'™, the nervous system is the gateway to healthy conscious relationships that will eventually change the world
Spread the word...
Choosing to take care of your nervous system, your mental wellness, your gut health is a gift to yourself, your family and the world
Love,
Amy Guerrero
Still rockin' my original Logo from 2016 & found this photo from early 2018 shortly after I took my business from an in-person business to an online business to serve more people
