I hear from so many women that they know they "should" love their body, but even after several years of positive thinking, it doesn't change the way they feel. That's because for many of us, we hold trauma in our body related to body image. Mindset work is often not enough of change subconscious programming. I discuss how healing body image trauma helps shift at a foundational level. For more info on how to work with me: http://www.AwakenToYourBody.com

Forcing yourself to be calm can keep you exhausted and stuck. Performative calmness can actually contribute to illness. I was stuck here for many years, and once I learned how to actually move through the actual emotions rather than prioritizing calm, I was able to heal, such as heal my blood pressure and have less anxiety and depression. https://www.ultra-spective.com/

Many people get stuck because they try to create change from a place of self-awareness and mind-set. This stays on the surface and doesn't address the root cause, which is stored in the body. I talk about why self-awareness is only the beginning and give some insight as to the process of connecting with the body to heal and transform the way you feel and show up in your life. Send me a message at [email protected] if you'd like more support in connecting with your body to heal. https://www.ultra-spective.com/

We can all agree that moving our body is a fundamental key to health. However, did you know that using guilt and shame to be motivated to exercise can be harmful, particularly for those that have dysregulated nervous systems?  Anna shares her story of how her relationship with movement fueled nervous system dysregulation by cycling between fight/flight or anxious states to freeze or depressive states.  She outlines her journey of how she healed her way back to experiencing joy in movement. Milana with More than Fitness https://www.instagram.com/more._than._fitness/ Jessica with Reimagine Fitness Trainer https://www.instagram.com/reimagine_fitness_trainer/

Anna writes an open letter of apology for the harm she caused as a photographer who used photoshop to alter her client’s body to fit the beauty standard. Her clients loved this service because she was so good at seeing bodies with a critical lens. But for many clients, this service unknowingly caused harm by contributing to nervous system activation and one’s sense of unworthiness as they looked at their real body in the mirror.

Find out what is possible when you heal your relationship with your body. Anna shares her body story and how body shame results in trauma, which perpetuates even more body disconnection which contributes to dis-ease. Learn how beauty standards are a means of control and oppression.

Are you a spiritual healer who hasn’t done your liberation work? Are you a social justice activist who hasn’t done your healing work? Listen to why I believe that healing and liberation work go hand in hand and one without the other actually perpetuates more harm. Recommended Anti-Oppression Educators Louiza Duran (Weeze)  accordingtoweeze.com Myisha T Hill   checkyourprivilege.co Sonya Renee Taylor  sonyareneetaylor.com

Anna explores how shame is so deeply engrained as normal in our culture and how the energy keeps us in a state of survival. Shame is a major driver for our need for control. When we can operate from a place of compassion and empathy, we can release control and experience true freedom, in a way that honors our humanity and the planet.

Anna shares her definition of "healing" based on her own experience as well as what she's learned as a trauma healing coaching and practitioner of mind/body therapy. She also shares her unique healing journey to bring awareness to the areas where people may feel stuck.  Mindset and intellectual knowledge is often the focus of western therapies, OR, there's the spiritual bypass. Although these approaches are helpful, it may not result in shifting the way one feels and shows up in life, especially when there's trauma involved.  And hint, living in this culture, we all have trauma.

Anna was a successful “confident” business woman and entrepreneur and if you asked her 20 years ago if she needed healing, she would’ve laughed in your face. But now that’s she’s 10yrs into her healing journey, she explores the red flags of her past that were indications that she was living in survival. She describes how nervous system dysregulation and trauma patterns showed up in her life.