David Martin
@EmergingPurpose
Psychotherapy | Somatic Experiencing | Creativity
When we take the journey back home, from our heads down into our hearts and our bodies, we reconnect with wisdom which feels timeless and eternal, and to knowing so much more certain than thinking can provide.
My burnout recovery started when I began taking my boundaries seriously. Only once I started being uncompromising with putting in place whatever I needed to be safe and comfortable did my nervous system come out of survival mode. Not a moment before.
One reason that body psychotherapy is so effective, is that our inner world is usually reflected in our soma. Our postures and symptoms are symbols of our unconscious blocks and yet-to-unfold gifts and purpose. Work through the body and whole psyche follows.
Watch how you talk to yourself when you're alone. That's not your voice - it's an archive of every judgment you've internalized. You can rewrite that narrative, but first you have to recognize it as learned, not innate.
I’m still a bit culture shocked after transitioning from the creative industries to private therapy practice. While there is much I love about my work now, I find myself missing the camaraderie of colleagues. I’d appreciate any thoughts or advice on navigating this shift.
If we stop trying to explain things to people who just aren't going to understand us, we can come back to ourselves and reclaim a lot of energy in the process.
Healing after years of overwhelm and pushing through walls can be a lot like earning back the trust of a spooked horse. More about that later.
Sometimes it’s hard to see whether our jobs and lifestyles are healthy or not, especially if surrounded by other people doing the same thing. But if we spend some time listening to our bodies, we’ll find out everything we need to know.
I would love to see a study that looks at the relationship between reading novels and how stuck people feel in their life.
When unsure whether to do that thing, or meet that person, try checking in to see if you sense either more expansion or contraction in your body? I’ve found this to be a more reliable navigation system of what to move towards, or not, than trying to work it all out in my head.
If we’re not careful, lovely new self-knowledge can just be new stuff to beat up and reject. The challenge has to be meet these parts as compassionately as we can, otherwise what’s the point?
Strong Will isn’t the only way to get stuff done. We burn ourselves out if we keep on bashing through our resistances. We also have Skilful Will and Loving Will at our disposal - far more sophisticated and sustainable fuel sources.
You can have all the fancy techniques in the world, to ‘let go’ of trauma, but there is enough connection to safety, joy, goodness etc there’s nowhere for it to go. In simplest terms, the remedy for trauma is life.
Where there is burnout, is there always a lack of boundaries?
If your dreams have crashed and burned in the past, your nervous system might now react to ‘dreaming big’ as a threat. Each expansion met with collapse. In recovery dreaming has to be titrated, bit by bit, gently growing our capacity for growth itself.
If our surfacing emotional pain is a product of how our needs weren’t met by others in the past, then there is an opportunity to meet those feelings more compassionately ourselves. It all comes up for love.
The trauma in your mind is only a reflection of the trauma in your body. Process these layers somatically and your thoughts and feelings will start to take care of themselves.
I don’t care how dark and weird the future gets with AI, as long as it does my admin for me.
You being authentic offends people. You being fake offends yourself. Choose.
Will AI hurry up and make admin a thing of the past. Thank you please.
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