Restoring your Embodied Strength…

What is restoration? How is this different from healing? What is our embodied strength? Why is this even important?

So many questions to ponder and answer here. Let me offer a little personal insight. Some people might disagree with me, but here we go anyway.

I specifically use the term “restoration” rather than “healing” when speaking about our human ability to move forward after trauma. Now I know that I have called this space for personal work Healing Motion, so what the??? But, we will get into that in another blog. Anyway, so why is it important to restore ourselves. I will be taking from one of my mentors Amber Gray here, who explained to me that if we are like houses that sustains damage from a hurricane, there might be parts that can be salvaged and restored, there might be parts that weathered the storm, and their might be parts that we have to replace. We will always have pictures or memories of the original structure, and we are building from the same foundation and maybe even with the same materials and wood, but the house will never be exactly the same.

This is the body, and our Self, after trauma. We are whole from the start and are never beyond a point of restoration. However, we might find that a new neuro-pathway that we cultivate might replace one that is no longer serving us in the same way. We will always build from the foundation of Self, but as we grow our perspectives might need a little buffing, a little repair of our nervous systems, while still maintaining the pieces that support our restored boundaries.

Healing suggests covering up with skin, or mending with scar tissue, that might make things more rigid or even feel a bit like we weren’t whole to begin with. We grow from our experiences, not heal from them and build new barriers against them.

Embodied Strength is this growth. It is the deep feeling in our bones and Self that we are strong and that we have resilience within us always. However, at certain points in our life we might become separated from that knowing feeling of I am here, I am my Self, and I am one with the universe. Once we can grow and move forward with a better sense of self awareness and re-embodiment, we can then continue to grow our strength beneath us like the roots of a mighty tree; still flexible in the wind and also grounded in what we feel, know, and how we respond to ourselves, others and the world.

At Healing Motion you blaze your own trail to restoring your embodied strength, because, while I might be in the weeds next to you with a compass, you are the only one who can find the path; this path that is already inside of you and has always been inside of you. Once you place your foot on the road, it is your steps of self inquiry, curiosity, and felt sense knowing that move you along and bring you back so you can restore your own personal embodied strength. All of our houses look different, all of our roots dig into different soil, and all of our paths lead us to our true Selves.