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This week's A.E., we've got Liz Tenuto.

She is the workout witch, and she's going to talk all about somatic exercise

and how to help our anxiety, our fears, traumas, body to come out

of things in a somatic way. Let's get her on. All right, Liz, well, we are so excited to have you on.

So you've got a book out called When the Body Speaks, How Somatic Healing Sets You Free.

And I, you know, you talk a lot about anxiety, things that you've

worked through in your life. For you, what was the thing that you were like, I need to write a book

about this? For me, it was like really not understanding what my health issues were related to.

I spent like 10 years going to different doctors and different specialists.

I had chronic pain and insomnia.

Also lots of panic attacks, I would randomly faint too. And I always went to the doctor when that happened.

You know, and doctors were like, you're just stressed.

And I didn't really have any, like, effective tools for how to deal with that.

So my hope with writing the book is to help people understand that those physical symptoms can be mental health related as well.

And definitely go to the doctor.

But, you know, if the doctor can't really provide you with tools, there are other tools, somatic exercises specifically, that can really help reduce and even get rid of

a lot of those symptoms.

Well, I'll say to, you know, to speak to some pieces of your story, I'm also a DB survivor.

And I remember when I went to my first doctor post all of that, the first thing he handed

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