Finding Your Joy: The Holiday Special with Elizabeth Ferreira
Elizabeth and I welcome you into our home to talk about our changing relationship with the holidays, letting go of the past, healthy boundaries, glimmers, and different paths to taking in the good. Along the way we talk about different approaches to working with trauma, connecting with the body, and getting on our own side.
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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
2:00: A bit of Elizabeth’s history with the holidays, and claiming her own rituals
5:20: Experiencing the holidays without an agenda
10:15: Glimmers in The Polyvagal Theory
14:10: Ways Elizabeth’s works with her challenging history with relationships
21:35: Practicing somatics without trying too hard to practice somatics
28:40: Regulating through playful movement as much as through stillness
31:55: Holding onto yourself while home for the holidays in your old family system
38:45: Enjoying a sense of agency, and being around beauty
42:30: Entrapment and defeat, awareness, and saying no
47:15: Attachment, contracting around desire, and taking a moment for yourself
51:20: A quick walkthrough of the practice of finding a glimmer
55:35: Self-compassion and camaraderie during the holidays
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