Hello, my friends. I'm so excited for you all to hear this episode and this conversation all about kind of somatic safety, which just means like how we can feel safe in our bodies, because so much of our mental spin and mental rumination is actually aimed at just trying to feel safe in our bodies. I was just coaching someone on

this recently in my Mission Impossible Mastermind, which is a kind of small, high-end mastermind I do

for women who want to set big impossible goals. And we were talking a lot about how she was

constantly kind of like jumping from thing to thing to thing because she was

chasing this feeling of safety and that that feeling could only come from inside, right?

Partly from regulating her nervous system, which is what this episode today is all about.

And the other part of that safety that we need comes from changing our thought patterns to start to break the associations between certain thought patterns and danger or safety that our brain has.

And that is a second and really important piece of the puzzle because even if you learn how to regulate your nervous system on a physical

level, the way we're going to be talking about in this episode today, if you don't know how to

change the thought patterns that your brain associates with danger or safety, it just keeps

recreating that nervous system activation. And when your brain associates a thought pattern with danger or safety,

it is operating at a really deep subconscious level that can really sabotage you without you knowing.

So a lot of the times I find that when I'm coaching someone and they just can't shift a certain

thought pattern or they can't get themselves to like put themselves out there or take a certain

kind of

risk or work on, you know, a big project or goal they've had for a long time or get out

of a relationship that isn't working or set boundaries or whatever. It's because their brain

associates doing those things and changing those thoughts with danger. And so you really can't like just push through that danger

response. It's always going to win. So it's really important to be able to spot where am I

associating some way of thinking and being in the world with danger or safety. And how can I

start to question that and gain awareness of that so I can shift it.

So this is a really powerful practice to bring awareness to and I'm actually going to be teaching

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