From the Inside Out #3 - Beyond the Story

Many people who find their way to this kind of work have already tried a few things or more, sometimes (talk) therapy, coaching, self-inquiry, sometimes years of it. They understand themselves (very) well. And yet in their body and in the actual felt experience of daily life something hasn't often shifted (much).This episode explores why. And specifically, why some of what we carry lives beyond what language and conversation can fully reach.This isn't a criticism of therapy, which is genuinely valuable, has changed lives and offers something real and profound. It's an honest exploration of what can live beyond the story we're able to tell,  in the body, in the nervous system, in patterns that were laid down before language was even available.I talk about the autonomic nervous system,  how it operates largely below conscious awareness and shapes so much of what we experience as mood, reaction and behaviour. About implicit memory,  why so much of what we carry was encoded before we had words for it. And about what somatic work actually involves, including the fact that you don't have to go into the full story, that attunement matters as much as technique, and what it means to be truly met without agenda.This is the third episode in the mini-series From the Inside Out - on the body, the nervous system, and what creates lasting change.More of my work lives at www.maximeissner.nlCome say hello on:Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/maximeissner/or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximeissner/