My approach is a combination of solution focused coaching and somatic body based approach. Instead of just concentrating on the rational mind and the facts of the situation, we use sensations, emotions and internal stories as a gateway into the unconscious mind that resides in your body.

It takes practice to allow the emotions to come to the surface, especially if you have learned to shut them down, numb out or just ignore them. If you find yourself always feeling the same emotion or not even knowing what you are feeling, theres a big change that you’re not accessing your whole emotional range.

Procrastination often shows up as an inability to start things and just “feeling stuck” or avoiding certain tasks on your to-do list. When you know you should have sent an important email an hour ago and you still find yourself glued to the sofa with Netflix or busy with other unimportant tasks in order to avoid the one that actually matters.

Before I learned to connect with my body I used food to numb anxiety, overwhelm and stress. Many call it emotional eating, I call it a missing connection and a way to escape the bodily sensations. A way to escape something that you don’t know how to approach and process. A way to find safety and nurturing.

There is so much noise around us. What you should do or how you should be, how you should act or react. Sometimes the external noise can get too loud and unconsciously start affecting our actions. Little by little you may start listening more to the outside guidance and making choices according to the external expectations.

I am sure you too have had that experience more than once when you feel something is not right and you still choose to go with it - only to find out later on that you indeed were right about it and it wasn’t the right option for you.

Many people have said to me that when it comes to listening to the body and connecting with it, they just don’t know where to start so I thought I will share these 3 simple ways with you.

There are always 2 ways to look at things. One comes from the aspect of your mind as thoughts and beliefs & the other one comes from the aspect of your body as sensations and feelings.

Because after all the affirmations, positive thinking and goal oriented work, I found out that the mind does not rule over the body. As much as I wanted to be able to think my way out of a situation or emotion or experience my body was often telling a completely different story than my mind.

So in the last post I wrote about habits and how I combine that information with Nutritional Therapy. But even after this I still felt that something was missing from my approach. I didn't really get an answer to my question WHY?