Soma Psyche Soul

09/05/2026

Please summon the cold front 🙏🏼
Thank you! lol

08/31/2026

When nervous system regulation becomes another toxic positivity tool…

We need to talk about this.

I love the growing awareness around the nervous system and the way regulation practices can help us feel more grounded, present and connected.

But I think we can take this concept too far.

Nervous system regulation was never meant to mean that you should be calm all the time.

Your nervous system is what keeps you alive. It is designed to respond to what is happening around you.

Sometimes that response is fight or flight.

Sometimes it is freeze or shutdown.

Sometimes you are going to feel angry, anxious, overwhelmed, activated or deeply emotional.

That doesn’t automatically mean you are dysregulated and need to immediately “fix” yourself.

There is a really important distinction between regulation and bypassing.

Appropriate regulation sounds like:

“I am really activated right now. Let me slow down enough to understand what is happening.”

“I am angry, and I want to give myself enough space to respond rather than react.”

“My body is telling me something feels unsafe. I want to listen before I decide what I need.”

“I am overwhelmed and I need to create some space before I keep going.”

“I can feel this emotion without letting it completely take over.”

Bypassing can sound like:

“I shouldn’t be this upset.”

“I just need to calm down.”

“I need to get back into a positive state.”

“This feeling is going to dysregulate me, so I need to get rid of it.”

“I should be able to regulate myself through this.”

And sometimes those practices that are supposed to help us regulate become another way of avoiding what we actually feel.

Deep breathing.

Meditation.

Grounding.

Movement.

Somatic practices.

None of these are inherently bypassing.

The question is what we are using them for.

Are we using the practice to create enough space to actually feel, process and respond?

Or are we using it to make the uncomfortable feeling disappear?

Because there is a difference.

Regulation isn’t about eliminating your nervous system responses.

It is about developing the capacity to move through them.

Sometimes regulation means helping your body come down from an activation that is much bigger than what the present moment actually requires.

And sometimes regulation means recognizing that your anger, fear, grief or protective response makes complete sense given what is happening.

You don’t need to be calm all the time to be regulated.

You don’t need to feel good all the time to be healthy.

And you don’t need to turn every uncomfortable emotional experience into a nervous system problem that needs to be fixed.

The goal isn’t to become someone who never gets activated.

The goal is to become someone who can notice what is happening inside, understand what your body is communicating, respond with intention and eventually find your way back to yourself.

That is a very different kind of regulation.

One that doesn’t ask you to feel less.

It helps you become more capable of feeling it all.

08/25/2026

One of the most common things I hear from clients is that they feel disconnected from their body. This disconnection is something we've all likely experienced at one time. When you are experiencing physical pain for example, it is common to purposely ignore, avoid, and ultimately disconnect from that area.

But what about emotional pain?

We often carry emotional pain and this pain commonly results as held tension patterns that the nervous system activates whenever it is triggered by a similar feeling or fear of a similar feeling occurring. Think of "The Body Keeps the Score" a best seller from Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk. These patterns are "stored" as nervous system responses whether it is from physical pain and compensation patterns or emotional distress.

This is why somatic dialogue is an important part of somatic bodywork. It gently guides you back to reconnecting with your body and deeply listening to what is there. Just your awareness and acknowledgment is often enough to process and release the tension.

Somatic Reset Bodywork trusts the body's wisdom and gently guides you back into deeper relationship with yourself through somatic dialogue.

Book a session at www.SomaPsycheSoul.com
Or learn how to provide this valuable work to your clients with our upcoming Nationally Approved Somatic Reset Bodywork ™ CE workshop Oct 23-25.

08/23/2026

I’ll be representing Y12SR at the Carteret County Celebrate Recovery event. 🫶🏼

Yogic philosophy paves the wave of understanding inner and outer relations. The practice of Y12SR weaves these understandings with movement, because we recognize the importance of including the body in the therapeutic process.

Y12SR is for everyone.
For those in substance recovery.
For those in crisis recovery.
For those who love or cares for someone living in recovery from substance or crisis.

I’m just one little person yelling into the abyss sometimes, but knowing that I can reach even 1 person and make a difference, makes it worth it.

-Jena
Y12SR Peer Support

08/19/2026

You're busy showing up for everyone else. Holding it all together. Wondering if anyone even notices how much you carry.

There's a specific kind of tired that comes from doing life alone and feeling as though no one gets it.

This is your invitation back to Circle, to the ancient, simple medicine of women gathering, witnessing each other, and remembering they're not alone.

At our Goddess Yoga Circle, you'll find a sense of belonging, community, connection, and support, along with the relief that comes when you finally feel seen and heard by other women who get it.

If you've been craving connection and a place to belong, come join us. We welcome you with open arms & open hearts.

See you on the mat!

08/15/2026

Just a reminder I’m closed for a quick trip out of state to get some of my late grandmas belongings. It’s been a lot of sorting through photos, checking in with family and every time you think you’re done…. There’s a whole other collection to go through 😮‍💨 but I’m enjoying catching up with my cousins and my family 💗
I’ll be returning for work Tuesday.

08/11/2026

If you’ve been curious about what somatic work is like, I’m sharing a personal example of how I use it in my own life.

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08/10/2026

I stumbled across something the other day... It was a thread of comments from bodyworkers that truly showed they were stuck in a belief of outdated information.

And that scares me.

We live in a world where current research is available at our fingertips. Staying stuck in old beliefs is a choice. But when you're working directly with the public, shouldn't that choice always be to keep learning?

Somewhere in that thread I saw practitioners arguing that emotions aren't stored in the body. I guess they believe the nervous system, brain, and body are somehow disconnected from one another. I genuinely cannot fathom that mindset, especially in this field. And I can't imagine that landing well with any client managing anxiety, depression, or trauma.

Clients who trust us with their bodies deserve practitioners who understand how those bodies actually work.

So I feel like this needs to be said.

The massage and bodywork field is outdated.

We have textbook authors publicly proud of refusing to update their material with current findings.

We have therapists still citing the Touch Research Institute as the leading authority on massage research, when it hasn't held that position for years.

Many are taught to lead with a fix it mentality, that deeper pressure is always better, or that stretching tight muscles is a valid approach 🤦🏻‍♀️, even though neuromuscular education tells a very different story.

And underneath all of it, antiquated myths keep getting repeated by well meaning therapists who simply were never taught otherwise.

Our boards aren't stepping in either. Misinformation, missing information, outdated information, none of it seems to be their concern, even though they are supposed to be protecting the public. Honestly, that's part of what makes this so disheartening. They aren’t here for us as licensed professionals and there’s zero regulation of education across the nation. No monitoring. No ensuring educational standards. And I’ve witnessed first hand how that runs programs into the ground.

It's also exactly why I became an educator.

Because we as therapists deserve better training, and our clients deserve better care. Updating what we know isn't optional in a field built on trust and touch.
It should be mandatory.

08/09/2026

5 grams… about the weight of a nickel, is all that’s needed to release fascia. 🤯

And I see that happen in CranialSacral Therapy sessions all the time.

The body naturally reorganizes itself. We know this. What so many don’t know, is that it happens even with only 5 grams of pressure.

That’s right.

You don’t need deep pressure to create change.

In fact, deep pressure often triggers protective responses in the body creating more tension, more guarding and ultimately more pain, especially if what you have going on is in the fascia. Deep work should be reserved for deeper musculoskeletal pain that involves specific muscles. Often, this cannot be properly addressed without first releasing the fascia barrier. Most therapists tend to power through it with a fix it mindset that believes deeper is better. But understanding neuroscience, the nervous system and the neuromuscular connection teaches a completely different picture.

Your fascia is heavily innervated. It’s part of the sensory input system connected to the somatic nervous system. That’s a whole branch of the nervous system widely ignored, yet it’s the most powerful in processing and eliciting change. Without it, the autonomic nervous system responsible for flight/fight or rest/digest wouldn’t be able to respond.

This is the type of education I teach to other massage therapists in my Somatic Reset Therapy™ courses. It’s also the basis for the way I work no matter what session you come in for.

The body is amazing. Working with the body instead of against it yields greater results. Recognizing the whole system, instead of pieces and parts, makes you a rebel in this field and we all know I am a rebel soul through and through. 🫶🏼

08/08/2026

If there's one thing I have learned in midlife, it's that you really begin to notice just how much you've carried throughout life, from trauma, to societal labels, to expectations from others and yourself.

One layer after another just piles on, until one day you wake up and feel like you don't even know yourself anymore.

You're just surviving.

Disconnected from yourself, maybe even disconnected from life around you, because presence always seems to escape you.

This is not the life you want to be living. You feel it in your bones.

It's screaming at you internally for a change. But where do you even begin?

I work with so many women who feel exactly this way. Midlife does not have to be a crisis, it can be the catalyst for the change you've been craving from within.

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