The shrink you need

The shrink you need, when you’ve intellectualized all of your feelings.

You dance. Yup, you dance.

Something I discovered for myself and learned through other facilitators and teachers is that we are all super good at diagnosing ourselves and others, putting labels on situations and behaviours now that we all know the therapy lingo, thanks to Instagram, and thinking situations over and over, good and bad.

But to some point, that is a lot, too much, thinking. Even more if our work involves using our brain, in front of a screen 8 hours a day, instead of using our bodies and hands, such as manual labor.

We intellectualize everything, think so much, but at the end, we haven’t felt nor processed anything. It is all up there in our head, and never, down there, in our body. We have non-existent belly breath and we forget we have our two feet that ground us and gets us from place to place. Quickly it creates this unshakable fatigue and burnout. That is when somatic movement comes into play. Unstructured movement, not a sport; Tai chi, shaking, EFT, intuitive or ecstatic dance. Instruments, singing, soil work, knitting, painting.

It might seem obvious, but I think we tend to forget about these tools after middle school. Like we’re only allowed to them as children and that we are too grown up now.

So Dance! Dance like no one is watching!