TRIGGERED! When you feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your body
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Being in a human, physical body can be very triggering at times. It can feel dense, unsafe, or uncomfortable to be in a body. This sometimes leads us to try to escape the body through coping mechanisms like overeating, undereating, drinking too much, checking out from reality, or spiritual bypassing.
It can also feel unsafe to be in your body if you've experienced trauma of any kind in this lifetime. In this episode, I address a few different forms of trauma you might have experienced that could still be affecting your ability to feel grounded and embodied. I also offer two practices to begin healing your relationship to your body.
*DISCLAIMER: nothing in this episode should be considered a substitute for medical, psychological, or psychiatric advice or treatment.*
If you need specialized help working through body-based trauma, you can find a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner here: https://directory.traumahealing.org
To connect with me directly, you can head over to www.josephinehardman.com
And please feel free to respond to this episode and/or share your own triggers by emailing me@josephinehardman.com
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Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:14.0 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:20.2 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit |
| 0:23.0 | josephinehardman.com. If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review |
| 0:29.5 | on Apple Podcasts. I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or |
| 0:36.0 | companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:46.5 | Our bodies help us do so much in the world. |
| 0:50.3 | Yet, sometimes being in a physical body can feel very dense, very clunky, very limiting, |
| 0:56.7 | and sometimes even unsafe. |
| 0:59.6 | Being in a body subject to that body's eventual transformation and decay can feel extremely vulnerable. |
| 1:08.6 | This is especially true in cases where the body has been abused, |
| 1:14.2 | mistreated, or violated by external forces, or even when the body seems to turn against itself, |
| 1:22.3 | as in the case of, for example, cancer or autoimmune disorders. |
| 1:29.4 | So being in a body can feel very disconcerting, leading us to try to escape the body or |
| 1:34.9 | soothe or numb the body through coping mechanisms like overeating, under eating, eating foods |
| 1:42.0 | that hurt us, drinking too much, checking out from reality, or existing |
| 1:47.5 | only from the neck up. Feeling uncomfortable or unsafe in your body can be a very strong trigger |
| 1:55.0 | and in and of itself a deeply traumatizing experience, right? That's not how we want to move through the world, |
| 2:03.8 | feeling totally unsafe in the body. So let me lead here with a quick disclaimer that I think |
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