Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the importance

of feeling good and cultivating what is most positive in your experience.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so let's talk about the importance of feeling good and reconnecting to the part

of you that feels good in the context of healing and growth.

If you're a regular listener of this podcast and if you've attended events of mine, you

know I am a big proponent of and include a lot of work related to navigating and being

with your pain, your trauma, unresolved things from your past that continue to be in a

sense stuck in the mind and the body.

This to me is an inevitable part of doing any sort of growth work.

The metaphor I sometimes like to use is that, you know, trying to grow without making

space for and even actively looking at areas of yourself that are kind of like frozen

in time around a difficult experience such as a trauma, it can be sort of like trying

to row up a stream without untying yourself from the dock.

If you really haven't resolved some of those deeper things, there can be this subconscious

self-sabotage, a fear of moving forward or trying something new because a part of the system

is still terrified of what will happen when we go into a certain context that we associate

with fear, unsafety, and pain.

And so that kind of work is really important, all of my retreats in general make space

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