When Being Strong Becomes Too Much ~ Week Four - Allowing Support To Reach You
Theresa Hubbard, LMFT
In Week Four of When Being Strong Becomes Too Much, Theresa Hubbard, LMFT, invites listeners into a guided experience on allowing support to reach the body.
For many of us, learning to be strong also meant learning to be self-sufficient. We may have learned to rely on ourselves, anticipate needs before asking, hold everything together, and not expect too much from others. Over time, support can begin to feel complicated. It may feel like weakness, exposure, dependency, obligation, disappointment, or something that comes with a cost.
Theresa gently explores support not as something you have to believe in, accept all at once, or trust before your body is ready. Instead, support is offered as a signal the body may begin to receive.
A signal that can come through:
contact,
pressure,
breath,
the chair beneath you,
the ground holding you,
or one hand resting gently on the body.
Sometimes the mind cannot convince the body that it is supported. Sometimes the body has to feel support first.
Through breath, body awareness, sensation, silence, and compassionate self-inquiry, this practice invites you to notice what happens in your body when support is named, offered, resisted, longed for, or allowed in even slightly.
This episode is not about forcing trust. It is not about overcoming resistance. It is not about collapsing into support before your system is ready. It is an invitation to stay in relationship with the parts of you that learned not to need, not to ask, not to hope, and not to depend.
Because support does not have to be overwhelming to be real.
It may begin as one small body-up signal that says:
Maybe I do not have to hold everything alone right now.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• Why support may feel complicated for people who have learned to be strong
• How self-sufficiency can become an intelligent nervous system adaptation
• Why receiving support may bring up resistance, longing, fear, or vulnerability
• How the body may respond to support before the mind has words for it
• Why support is not only an idea, but something the body has to feel
• How contact, pressure, breath, rhythm, and grounding can become body-up signals of support
• Why resistance does not need to be overcome in order to be understood
• How longing and self-protection can exist at the same time
• Why validation matters before change is expected
• How the body may begin to learn that support can arrive gently, slowly, and without force
COMMON QUESTION
What does “allowing support to reach you” mean?
It means exploring support slowly and gently, without forcing trust. Support may begin as contact, breath, pressure, rhythm, or the sensation of the ground beneath you. It is the body receiving the message that something is here with you.
ABOUT THERESA HUBBARD
Theresa Hubbard, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Kansas City Neuroplasticity Institute in Liberty, Missouri.
This series is part of my ongoing exploration of nervous system regulation, embodiment, neurofeedback, and the ways the body learns to recognize safety, support, rest, and return.
Most recently, my thinking in this area has also been influenced by the work being done by Shiftwave around nervous system regulation, particularly the research and writing of Mike North, PhD, and the larger work of the Shiftwave team.
This episode is not a paid sponsorship. I mention Shiftwave as one of the current influences helping shape my understanding of body-up regulation, recovery, and the body’s capacity to return.
Learn more:
http://www.myinnerknowing.com
http://www.theresahubbard.com
http://www.kcnpi.com
http://shiftwave.co/kcnpi
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