SP 291: Overcoming Trauma and Abuse with Essential Oils and Yoga Nidra
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After fleeing from an abusive marriage, Rebecca Davison found herself using alcohol as a way to cope with her PTSD. She explains, "if I had a bad day, I would have an extra drink, I was very much a gray area drinker, but I didn't like being drunk, it made me scared and anxious."
Because of her support system and healthy childhood, Rebecca rationalized her drinking. She hadn't hit that "rock bottom." She hadn't reached the depths of what she perceived an alcoholic "should." It wasn't until she had a psychotic episode with a boyfriend where she finally came to the understanding that drinking and PTSD was dictating her life.
Through studying and research, Rebecca came to find Yoga Nidra and Essential Oils as her saving grace. In the practice of Yoga Nidra, it helps soothe the vagus nerve, which is essentially our flight or freeze response that may have been altered or skewed due to the trauma we've experienced. Additionally reducing emotional reactivity and increasing self-regulation, the benefits of Yoga Nidra and essential oils are deeply healing on a cellular and emotional level.
Once Rebecca came to understand the healing benefits of these properties, the more she separated herself from her PTSD, where she began helping others heal from their own trauma.
"Taking care of yourself and choosing to thrive is a revolutionary act despite all of the oppression and suffering in the world."
Rebecca Davidson is an artist and yoga and meditation practitioner and teacher with over 20 years of experience as a student and eight as a teacher. She specializes in yoga nidra, restorative, tantra, and other spiritually-based practices such as mantra, pranayama, and meditation.
Rebecca is also a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, an intuitive tarot and oracle reader, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art & Design. When she is not practicing, teaching, making art, or helping others transform/heal, Rebecca is probably drinking black coffee and listening to music or a podcast. She is a tree-hugging, crystal-collecting, essential oil wearing, animal loving, sober vegan.
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| 0:00.0 | Self-care is a revolutionary act and spiritual work can be a form of activism. |
| 0:07.0 | Self-care is a revolutionary act is from Audrey Lord, I believe. |
| 0:11.0 | And then the second half, I forget who said that and tacked it on, but I saved it and I remembered it. |
| 0:17.3 | Because as somebody who is a spiritually minded person and a healer, I see the suffering in the |
| 0:23.3 | world. And I do want to heal it. And I do want to participate in activism. But like I said, |
| 0:28.2 | I don't want to be that angry person I used to be. And so I think spiritual work and helping people |
| 0:33.7 | heal can be a form of activism. And I think Audrey Lord was right. |
| 0:38.2 | Self-care is a revolutionary act. |
| 0:40.4 | That was Rebecca Davidson, and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Getting sober is one thing. |
| 0:52.4 | Staying sober is another. |
| 0:53.8 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery Getting sober is one thing. Staying sober is another. |
| 1:00.3 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery is community and connection. |
| 1:03.6 | Share is not only a recovery podcast. |
| 1:06.3 | It is a global sobriety network. |
| 1:12.1 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you their inspirational journey of recovery. Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network. |
| 1:25.2 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of The Share Podcast. |
| 1:29.7 | And before we dive into this week's episode, I just want to remind all of our listeners |
| 1:34.3 | the fastest and easiest way to connect with me and to connect with the Share Recovery |
| 1:39.5 | community. |
| 1:40.3 | So there's two websites that you can check out. |
| 1:42.4 | The first one is thesharepodcast.com. |
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