How exercise, movement and fascia care can help manage stress, trauma and overwhelm with Alexis Overstreet, LCSW
Are you connected with how your body responds to stress, trauma and overwhelm? Licensed Clinical Social Worker Alexis Overstreet teaches us how exercise can help manage these challenges as well as providing self-care tools to deal with them. We also discuss how caring for the connective tissue can help our mental health.
We discuss
- What is connective tissue
- The benefits of Integrating body awareness into therapy
- The importance of understanding how stress, trauma and overwhelm impacts us on a body level
- Various terms like brain spotting, TRE (trauma released exercises) and tremoring
- How tremors are not something to be feared - they are our body’s way of responding to stress
- How using some of the MELT tools like the mini balls can help the stuck stress in our body release
- Simple tools to practice self care
Episodes Discussed:
- The surprising connection between fascia, chronic pain and overall well being with Sue Hitzmann (Season 15 Episode 3)
- The Underlying Reason You’re Chronically Exhausted with Hally Brooke (Season 13 Episode 26)
- Why your tight hip flexors may be a function of your nervous system with Elisabeth Kristof (Season 13 Episode 9)
Watch the full interview on YouTube here
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