Our mind, body and nervous system reacts to everything we experience in life. Trouble starts though when our nervous system stays switched on in the Fight, Flight or Freeze reactive state and "our reactions to the stressor" become stuck in a mental-emotional groove. For me what is often not recognised, and certainly ignored is the physical body's reactions. Our physical muscles have their own Flight, Fight and Freeze response too - this causes muscles to react and contract, or brace ready to fight or flee - and if they aren't released out back to neutral again, can go on to cause more issues and affect the physiological body systems too.

Some people feel that if there is a mental-emotional connection that it is not about the body - it is about the mental-emotional issue - but that doesn't solve the fact that our physical body could still be stuck in its reactive flight, fight or freeze mode too.   

What we hold in our subconscious, how it plays out, drives our reactive state and affects what we do in life, also plays a part in our stuckness. 

So, it is my belief that for true release to happen, we have to look beyond the obvious to the bigger picture and look at all aspects (mental-emotional-physical-subconscious-nervous system) because they are all intrinsically linked. Once we can understand our reactions to life, and we begin to work "with them" - we can begin to connect with who we truly are, and how we want to be in life....instead of who we may have become through life's experiences. 

More and more people are now feeling that it is this mind-body link that holds the key to true transformation, and I have believed this for many years. It is for this reason that my journey as a therapist has taken me to train on a psycho-therapeutic level too, and I now offer treatments that work across Mental-Emotional as well as Physical, and also through discharging the Nervous System from what it may be still carrying too.