Have you been around babies? Wow, they are a really something! Kind of scary, with all that fragility and all that need—yet they are also adorable. Wobbly heads, eye contact beyond belief; dimpled, tender flesh. Warm, soft and moist. Pure laughter, pure feelings: awesome! And we’ve ALL been there. YOU were once an adorable baby! Even if you had colic and nobody slept for five months, YOU were still adorable. And you were doing the best you could with the tools given you—your DNA mix, your digestive system, vocal ability, experience of sensation, safety and connection. You were 100%.
So what happened? Wow, what a dopey question. Uncontrollable life happened. We receive negative messages about ourselves, if not from our own bodies (illness) or family (often struggling), then on the playground or from mean teen-age peers. (Have you noticed how people attack and lash out, often quite cruelly, to hide their own self-hate? Attila the Hun had some issues.)
Inside each of us is every age we ever were. (Whoa!) The ages of childhood are especially powerful because we were so fully ‘embodied’—ie, present in pure physicality. Our big, fat frontal lobes were madly developing and not really “on line” for full use in early childhood. This creates a felt sense of ‘memories’ that are hard to get at, hard to express via language, because they were formed pre-language or pre-access to the vital functions of our frontal lobes. For some people, constant anxiety derives from those early times and they can’t say why they feel anxious—it’s just always there.
Fortunately, tending to ourselves now takes us a long way toward repair of old injuries and myths about Self. (‘Deep’ work benefits from being done in connection with a warm therapist because old injuries may create a profound sense of isolation and aloneness, and the antidote is working through them in connection.) Whether or not you are working with a therapist, Anxiety Soothers contains tools to help you. Various visualizations, activities and body cues address anxiety generated at various ages—and relief occurs in the now. Unburden your body and your internal baby: work with Anxiety Soothers.
So what happened? Wow, what a dopey question. Uncontrollable life happened. We receive negative messages about ourselves, if not from our own bodies (illness) or family (often struggling), then on the playground or from mean teen-age peers. (Have you noticed how people attack and lash out, often quite cruelly, to hide their own self-hate? Attila the Hun had some issues.)
Inside each of us is every age we ever were. (Whoa!) The ages of childhood are especially powerful because we were so fully ‘embodied’—ie, present in pure physicality. Our big, fat frontal lobes were madly developing and not really “on line” for full use in early childhood. This creates a felt sense of ‘memories’ that are hard to get at, hard to express via language, because they were formed pre-language or pre-access to the vital functions of our frontal lobes. For some people, constant anxiety derives from those early times and they can’t say why they feel anxious—it’s just always there.
Fortunately, tending to ourselves now takes us a long way toward repair of old injuries and myths about Self. (‘Deep’ work benefits from being done in connection with a warm therapist because old injuries may create a profound sense of isolation and aloneness, and the antidote is working through them in connection.) Whether or not you are working with a therapist, Anxiety Soothers contains tools to help you. Various visualizations, activities and body cues address anxiety generated at various ages—and relief occurs in the now. Unburden your body and your internal baby: work with Anxiety Soothers.
