I read something this morning that was like a warm blanket to my nervous system: Don’t let others have access to you just because it’s December.
As I reflected yesterday, the holidays can bring with it years or decades of bodily held pain. Memories pleasant and unpleasant. Confusion coming from a dysregulated nervous system.
Celebrating can feel like we are both revisiting and soothing an old wound.
How many of us look at the month of December with dread? I do.
The expectations.
The longing for something I don’t have and the pressure TO have it. Options offered but knowing those options are also not what I really need or want.
What would your holiday season look like if you were to get completely clear on what you want it to be about?
Push past the expectations, the pressures, see what comes up within the body, the sensations.
Notice.
Observe.
Offer up some gentle somatic movements, breathing (longer out than in).
Bi-lateral tapping.
Butterfly hug.
Write down the inner story. Sometimes that choice alone is enough to get your nervous system back online. And if you are able to or want to, give yourself a little bit of what that inner You needed all along.
Calendar systems don’t need to dictate our life. It is just another program/spell of illusion to break.
Then create new through healing those illusions.
💖
Victoria
