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Maggie Truelove, SEP
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A Defense of The Fawn Response

What the Somatic and Trauma Fields are Missing In the somatic, trauma and nervous system regulation field, practitioners are taught that fight, flight and freeze are the three fundamental, hardwired human stress responses. Fight and flight are sympathetic and movement-oriented, self-protective motor programs designed to do things and get us…

Mental Health

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In Defense of The Fawn Response
In Defense of The Fawn Response
Mental Health

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Feb 24, 2022

The One Day Challenge: A Liberating Practice for People-Pleasers and Fawners

As a Somatic Practitioner, I work with adults to resolve chronic stress, cultivate mindfulness, and empower an inner sense of agency. Agency is important because many of the people who come for support deeply struggle with self-assertion and boundaries. This is the spectrum of people-pleasers, codependents, and chronic fawn responders…

Mental Health

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The One Day Challenge: A Liberating Practice for People-Pleasers and Fawners
The One Day Challenge: A Liberating Practice for People-Pleasers and Fawners
Mental Health

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Feb 21, 2022

The Next Most Wholesome Thing: Tuning In to The Only Thing You Need to Know

My friend and I were on a hike, and I was processing how uncomfortable it was to feel so unclear about which choice to make regarding a big life decision. There were a couple options under consideration, but all I experienced when I thought about them was confusion. …

Mental Health

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The Next Most Wholesome Thing: Tuning In to The Only Thing You Need to Know
The Next Most Wholesome Thing: Tuning In to The Only Thing You Need to Know
Mental Health

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Dec 15, 2020

The Crispness of My Secular Life

How Dropping Beliefs Has Connected Me More For many years, I was obsessed with spirituality. And for many years, I was a devoted Buddhist in a Mahayana tradition (on my way to ordination in a ministerial program). This path, and the truly wonderful teachers I was fortunate enough to practice…

Life Lessons

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The Crispness of My Secular Life
The Crispness of My Secular Life
Life Lessons

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Aug 19, 2020

For the Tired and Wired of 2020

Support in Switching Gears — This is an empowerment note for those stuck in low-to-medium chronic distress. A nervous system-based boop in a new direction… for the fridge-riding, doom-scrolling, cannabis-smoking, drinking a bit extra-ing, tv-binging, over-exercising, drama-seeking, workaholic, stressing lot of us. In the OI model, we think of the nervous system as adversely impacted…

Somatics

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For the Tired and Wired of 2020
For the Tired and Wired of 2020
Somatics

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Apr 3, 2020

Waves of Freeze During COVID-19

What is the freeze response, and how might we relate to it and ourselves during the highly stressful experience of global pandemic Just a note: “Somatic” means “of the body”, and in this case refers broadly to study, practice and guidance towards embodiment, trauma resolution, nervous system resiliency, and trauma-safe…

Somatic Experiencing

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Waves of Freeze During COVID-19
Waves of Freeze During COVID-19
Somatic Experiencing

11 min read

Maggie Truelove, SEP

Maggie Truelove, SEP

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Somatic Practitioner: body-based sustainable change, mindfulness, and empowerment. www.maggietruelove.com

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