Turning Towards Suffering and Nervous System Regulation in Crisis
with Shelby Valentine
Chatted with my beloved Shelby about some tools and context to cope with global crises, and really, any crisis. With a focus on showing up and serving through crisis and metabolizing trauma, may it be supportive to think about it in different way than complete and utter overwhelm and burnout.
In this episode we discuss:
How unnatural and taxing the 24-hour news cycle is on our nervous systems.
The toxic cultural narrative that if one isn’t up on all details of every news story, it’s privileged, ignorant, and bypassing.
The modern urge to reduce every situation into a punchy headline, suffocating any chance of nuance.
How to begin to pull back from overconsumption and tune into your local community.
The idea that separation is masked as empathy or compassion, which creates a bypassing effect on how global dynamics are showing up in your community, body, and lineages.
How to regulate your nervous system if you are in fight, flight, or freeze.
Having context and language around trauma responses to be able to identify what is happening and open up more choices on how to move forward.
The difference between sympathy and empathy.
How to resource with other humans and other-than-humans to ritually be with the suffering.
How to offer prayerful energy to those in need, and to those that have recently passed.
How to support sustained, embodied, subtle activism.
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