Gin,

When you learn to feel safe, when your nervous system entrains itself to access safety as its primary orientation, your whole body softens into balance. By contrast, when you live in constant alertness, your body forgets how to rest. My clients often describe this as a sense of being wired and tired.

Somatic work reminds your body that it can trust again. Through awareness exercises, movement and gentle touch, we invite your system to shift from protection to presence.

You can think of it as tending the soil before planting new growth - safety isn’t just emotional; it’s biological. Some of my clients are even tracking these metrics using wearable technology. They report that somatic sessions produce deep rest states, both during our session and afterward. Ultimately, orienting to safety and allowing ourselves to rest creates easy flow-states of productivity. It’s a win-win-win. 

Try this now:

Sit back in your chair. Place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Feel your breath rise and fall. Notice the expansion of your ribs in your back body and feel your back and your seat against your chair. By sitting back instead of forward, noticing your whole back body, you tell your body, “I’m here. I’m safe.”  You aren’t in go mode; you are relaxed, open and available to connect.

The more often you practice this, the more your body remembers that safety lives within you.

Be well,
Gin
Gin Burchfield Coaching