J. comes to me for Transforming Touch sessions. This light hands-on touch bodywork allows her body to slow down and create space for new awareness and experience. She came in with curiosity and openness and has experienced changes she could have never guessed she needed. Transforming Touch can be done in-person or online. —Eve
What led you to schedule with me?
Two things…First, I heard your podcast with Dawn (on Child Anxiety Support Podcast, formerly You Are Not Your Mother) and it was an area of well being that was a complete unknown to me. I didn’t even know this was something I should potentially be thinking about or attending to.
And then the monthly community practice sessions. After the first couple of those on the membership site, I noticed such a dramatic difference. I just felt more well—whole, focused, grounded. I felt good after doing them.
I started to wonder what might be on the other side of exploring this a little bit deeper. There was clearly something that I was responding to in this that I had not been attuned to previously.
What were things like before?
I knew that I was doing too much and trying to balance too much but I didn’t know how to slow down. This helped me learn how to do that and to be more present in each moment.
It definitely provided the opportunity for me to deepen my meditation practice. It is easier to do and I feel like I get more out of it now than I did before, which is really cool.
Also I am able to be more mindful in choosing what to do with the internal chatter—the inner judgment, critical voices. I recognize them now and I’m like, “I kind of know where that’s coming from but you can move on out now. Thanks for bringing that up, anxious brain. It’s all good.”
Really it feels like it pulled together so many loose ends of things that I had worked on in my therapy, in meditation, and mindfulness practices. Like it all was able to come together in a cohesive integrated way that it hadn’t been able to before that.
What is different for you now?
From a sensory standpoint, I was almost overwhelmed after the first two or three sessions at the volume of sensory input that I had clearly been neglecting, that I was not aware of.
I will never forget walking out of that first session and going into the parking lot and the trees behind the building were in this stunning three dimensionality that I had not perceived…not for a very long time. I don’t know when that got lost or didn’t develop, or what happened. I just stood there staring at it. I was just stunned.
That was my first sense that this was going to take me in some ways that I didn’t even know to anticipate.
I had to relearn a lot of things. That on the end of the first leg of this journey now, I’m so grateful to be so much more able to experience all the things outside of me that I had not been experiencing.
I grieve for what was missed prior to all of this.
Words of encouragement for those thinking of trying this work
My experience is that if you are willing to go in without holding on too tightly to any expectations of what might come, but trusting that there will be positive benefit, you may be very surprised by benefits that you didn’t even know you needed.
I was certainly surprised by things I didn’t even realize are lacking that I was able to experience.
Final thoughts
I think I cannot overstate how safe you made it. You made me feel at ease. You made me feel you respected my personal space. You always did a great job of explaining things, what was going to happen. I felt like I was in a space where I could very easily speak up and say what I needed.
There are deep things being touched on so feeling like I am in a safe place helped me maximize the benefit of doing that.
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