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Why You Can’t Sit Still: Mindfulness, Trauma, and the Nervous System

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Almost Awakened Podcast, Bill Reel and Teresa Hobbs explore why stillness can feel so uncomfortable, especially for those recovering from religious trauma, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation. Teresa shares a powerful moment between them as a couple when a simple request for soothing touch opened the door to a… Read More »Why You Can’t Sit Still: Mindfulness, Trauma, and the Nervous System

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody, to the Almost Awaken podcast.

0:04.0

I'm joined by my co-host, Teresa Hobbs.

0:06.0

I'm Bill Real.

0:07.0

We're here to have a conversation about some things.

0:11.0

This should be just really casual.

0:13.0

You and I are just going to talk to each other, Teresa,

0:16.0

and have a little fun with something or things that happened between the two of us

0:21.5

over the last week that would give us a chance to demonstrate some things and explain some

0:26.5

things to the audience and with that why don't you take us through a little story that

0:31.5

happened between the two of us okay so this kind of uh was sparked from this conversation that Bill and I had about a week ago. And so Bill and I were, we were just laying in bed and I'd ask Bill for, you know, some tickle touch. That's like my, it's my favorite thing.

0:52.7

I just say our love language, both of our love languages are touch. And so immediately upon

1:01.1

dating, you know, I'm holding your hand, I'm rubbing your arm, you're holding my hand,

1:04.9

you're rubbing my arm. We both enjoy touch a lot. And that's our love language. and we both appreciate that the other person has that

1:13.0

compatibility as well that your love language is touch is beneficial to me because it's easy for me to

1:18.2

show to make bids for connection and do accept bids of connection by both of us having that

1:25.0

as our our main love language yes so and you know and it shows up different for both of us having that as our main love language.

1:28.6

Yes.

1:31.0

So, and it shows up different for both of us, right?

1:32.9

So you like a particular type of touch.

1:34.3

I like a particular type of touch.

1:39.2

And so I was asking Bill to provide a particular type of touch for me.

1:44.2

And I like, you know, really gentle, kind of slow, tickle touch is what I call it.

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