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Beautiful soul, There is a line from Gabor Maté that changed the way I understand healing entirely. In The Myth of Normal, he writes: "Trauma is not what happens to you but what happens inside you." Sit with that for a moment. The incident occurred once. It had a beginning and an end. It is, in the most literal sense, over. But the wound it left behind is not over. And every time you are triggered every time your chest tightens, your throat closes, your body floods with something you cannot name and cannot reason your way out of you are not experiencing the event again. You are experiencing the imprint your body never finished processing. And here is where I think most healing work stops short. We talk about it. We name it. We understand its origins, trace it back to childhood, identify the pattern, do the mental work of forgiveness. We build beautiful, articulate, deeply intelligent explanations for why we are the way we are. And all of that matters. Please hear me, all of that matters! But understanding a wound and releasing a wound are two entirely different things. Because that imprint is not stored in your reasoning mind. It is held in the body. In the tissue. In the cells, the organs, the blood, the fascia in the very water that makes up the majority of your physical being. Your body is a communication device. It has been speaking this whole time. The tension in your shoulders, the tightness in your jaw, the way your stomach drops before your mind has even registered what is happening, that is not random. That is stored information, held in the only language your body knows how to speak. And the mind cannot release what the body is still holding. This is why you can know exactly where a pattern came from and still find yourself repeating it. Why you can forgive someone completely, sincerely, from the depths of your heart and still feel your body brace when you hear their name. Why you can do years of talk therapy and still walk into a room and feel your nervous system go straight into survival before a single conscious thought has formed. It is not because you failed at healing. It is because the work never reached the place where the wound actually lives. So the question I want to leave you with is this: If trauma lives in the cells of your body how much true healing can happen from the neck up? How much can you release by talking about it, when the thing you are trying to release does not speak in words? What becomes possible when you finally go inward into the tissue, into the breath, into the body and let it move the way it was always meant to move? This is the work I do. Not talking about healing. Actually releasing it from the cells, from the nervous system, from the water and blood and bone that have been faithfully holding your story for you all this time. Your body has been waiting a very long time to put this down. If something in this landed, if you recognized yourself in the gap between understanding your wounds and actually being free of them, this is exactly what we work with together. Alchemy of Transformation is a live virtual group container for this deeper, body-based release work. And for those who want fully personalised support at their own pace, my 1:1 sessions are always open. Reply to this email and I will personally help you find the right fit. With love and sovereignty, Iya Thera Founder, Soul Tribe Health & Wellness therasoultribe@gmail.com | (437) 365-8852 Soften. Release. Become.
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