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Lua Zawacki, Somatic Therapy & Coaching

Lua Zawacki is a Somatic Therapist & Coach in Tempe, AZ.

02/03/2025

This definition of trauma is probably the one I refer to most in my work with clients. Because we essentially live in a society that perpetuates trauma, and we have all been conditioned to some extent in the Western world to align our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors with this essence of trauma as well.

So getting in the practice of observing, self-reflecting and creating functional boundaries for ourselves in the current context of the outer landscape of our lives can do a LOT in the way of supporting our systems to come out of high states of activation/ threat response in our autonomic nervous systems. Supporting greater peace, relief and often times, joy.

But we have to first become aware - and then give ourselves permission to take action. Because often times, it will disrupt many of our conditioned and currently in-place held beliefs and structures for our lives.

What could you reduce, pause, slow down, stop or outsource today?

BIG love,
Lua

01/27/2025

In my daily reflections, one thing has always been true: to be of service is to find life worth living.

All of us find ourselves in difficult situations that encompass deep suffering at some point in our lives - usually many points in our lives. I know in those times in my life, my greatest service was to myself - because the life energy was leaking out of me, and I had very little left to give others. But I don't think I ever stopped dreaming of how I might help others move through the darkness they find themselves in... and my prayers and thoughts were focused on that dream. I think because over the years, I had collected so much evidence from my life experiences that told me this was the way... this is the way that I get to truly feel alive and on purpose. to continually give - though I had much to learn about receiving.

Today I'm grateful that I get to wake up every day and be of service in a way that nourishes me as much as it nourishes others - perhaps more so, I don't know. but the feeling is mutual. and my service no longer makes me sick. it makes me whole. and balanced. and it has taken me a lot of hard work and courage to make difficult decisions, to disappoint people, to continually put my own wellbeing before other people's expectations of me - to arrive at this sweet place of give and receive - equally.

And I just LOVE witnessing and hearing what kinds of service other people get to do that is mutually nourishing for them.. it's wild to me how many ways we get to be alive, and we get to contribute to collective repair.

What service fills you up?

so much love today,
Lua

01/20/2025

Personal evolution is a choice. When we consciously make this choice, it undoubtedly requires hard work. The hard work of valuing ourselves, loving ourselves, showing up for ourselves -- often times at the disappointment or misunderstanding of others. Or sometimes in the face of significant material hardships that come with that choice. It takes tremendous courage, this I know for sure.

And also we get to experience so many incredible things along the way. Not limited to -
--greater resilience in the face of challenging and triggering experiences. what used to trigger or scare us, no longer does.
--our thoughts and emotions become more and more positive and generative over time. we trust ourselves, love ourselves, show kindness to ourselves, encourage ourselves, value ourselves, believe in ourselves more and more of the time.
--we feel more present - more presence - with ourselves and all living things. it feels more and more like a gift to be alive.
--the truest reality of who we are on the inside links up more and more with how we are expressed on the outside. we get to live in greater authentic expression of our true person. what a gift not only to us - but to the world.

big love today,
Lua

01/01/2025

Wishing you a 2025 filled with safety and healing✨️
You are worthy of nothing less.
🫶🏼
Lua

12/23/2024

My wish for you this holiday season ✨️

🫶🏼
Lua

12/18/2024

this may seem simple. but our brains are wired with a negativity bias. from trauma. from evolution that preferenced survival over wellbeing.

so this simple practice can truly be life changing. nervous system changing.

notice the thing that feels more positive to you. good-feeling.
hang out there with it a little longer than you normally would.

see what happens. what you notice in your body/ thoughts/ emotions.

☀️
Lua

12/04/2024

"When you don't know what to do, do nothing."
🙏🏼Oprah Winfrey

And when the big things are unclear, there’s always the next moment step that is - the sparkles of YES in the simplicities of life… what to eat, go to sleep, clear out the garage, call a friend… Even if it feels tiny or seemingly unrelated to the bigger thing.

May we trust the sparkles of full YES
No matter how big or small
And perhaps not settle for less.

Forcing, over functioning, over planning… served our survival, thank you thank you, and also no longer need to drive our decision making… we get to pause, tune in, go as fast as the slowest part of us wants to move… and fully align with 100% YESes only.

Big love 🫶🏼
Lua

11/18/2024

I solo-climbed this mountain when I was in Seattle this summer. yeah, like 20 years ago I wouldn't have even been able to hike a quarter mile because I did not trust my body to do hard things. In fact, I'm not sure that I totally knew I had a body at the time.

I now understand I was living in over-functioning, people pleasing, anxiety-filled, disasociation, panic attack, exhaustion mode. whew. i feel tired just writing that 😅

And 5 years ago I wouldn't have been able to hike alone. certainly not in bear and cougar country.

But this summer, I woke up early, I was so excited to climb this freaking mountain. I prepared and got all the gear I needed to feel as safe as possible about it as I could. I had this thought like, "if I die in these moments of adventure and awe, I'm cool with that" haha. because I felt so alive. I had a little bit of nerves, yes, but not so much that it prevented me from having the experience.

I also did not power through it. I went mostly slow, stopped to snack and soak up the beauty. my younger self cried tears of awe - like how did I get here? so much gratitude.

but ultimately, these shifts have come from simply making thousands of tiny choices - and some very big scary choices - in the direction of my own inner peace/inspiration.

And for many, many years it was primarily a subtractive process - removing things from the outer landscape of my life so that I could have the safety I needed to do the inner work to get where I am today.

peace and aliveness is possible for you, too. perhaps in ways you could never imagine.

🫶🏼⛰️🫶🏼
Lua

11/13/2024

What shows up for you when you read this post?

With whom does your body relax?

🫶🏼
Lua

11/06/2024

What is Somatic Touch Therapy? 🧐

10/30/2024

We get to attune to the peaceful thing. The feel-good thing. The dreamy happy thing. No matter how small or “wrong” it may seem in the moment.

It is very normal that we have been conditioned to match the frenzy. Because so many of us had to do this in order to “belong”/ function/ survive in chaotic environments we had no choice to leave for many years.

So this is the familiar thing. Even if it keeps us in survival mode. And exacerbates our negative thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body.

Attending to the chaos is what helped us stay safe – because we knew what was coming. It helped us prepare in some way. It gave us a better chance at getting through the hard moments, in better shape.

And also – you can choose a new way now.

I want to invite you, gently, today to get curious about attuning to the peaceful thing instead. Even for a moment. Especially in this time when the forces of society are working really hard to blow us around, out of our center, into fear and chaos.

And still – you get to choose what you attune to. The birds, the sunlight, the laughter of a loved one. The beauty of a pumpkin. The kindness of a neighbor.

May you take a moment to breathe today. Breathe in softness. Notice your spine and the center of your brain. Drop your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Attune to whatever beauty is right in front of you – no matter how small it may seem. Live here. So more of us – can live here.

🫶🏼🎃🫶🏼
Lua

08/08/2024

Every time I post a photo of myself, and I don’t die, I lovingly give myself the edgy experience of feeling safe to be expressed into the world. I rewire my nervous system around safety to be me – to take up space - to be witnessed – safety to simply be a human imprinting her essence into the world. As we might say, is the reason any of us exist in the first place. To see and be seen, to love and be loved. To somehow contribute to the whole simply by being ourselves.

You might think that it would go without saying that being at the center of your own life is like a normal experience and how we all live. And yet, this seems to be the thing that we have the HARDEST time believing and doing. Choosing ourselves. Feeling safe enough to say hey, I’m going to choose to bring my attention inward and take courageous action in response to what my body/heart/soul is saying right now. In service to my right to be at peace, to heal, to thrive. Because so many of us have been conditioned to abandon ourselves in service to something out there – and it is literally making us sick.

So we can choose to honor and center ourselves now, in prevention of illness, in support of healing, in support of you getting to be more you in the world. In support of ways of being and doing that are more sustainable and conducive to ease and flow and joy and play existing in this plane.

Or we can choose to continue to abandon, maybe get more sick and imbalanced and ultimately have NO CHOICE one day but to center ourselves or die. To receive medical intervention, or die.

I see it every day. I have lived it all myself. And my prayer today is that you may radically choose to center your peace so that that much more of humanity gets to be at peace today.

BIG love,
Lua

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