Speaker Mike Tomas
In this interview we discuss the four trauma responses including fight, flight, freeze and fawn. Lee and Mike discuss the coping mechanisms we develop in our search to find safety. They discuss dysregulation and techniques including awareness, the breath and Tension Release Exercise (TRE) to bring your nervous system back into regulation. They share some personal experiences and how TRE has been helpful in healing chronic pain and increasing peace of mind. Mike Thomas, Certified TRE® Provider, Educator, Writer, “Everyday Consciousness” Coach, Holistic Fitness Trainer, SSP (The Safe and Sound Protocol), and Spiritual Strategist is the innovator and co-owner of Holistic Fitness Lifestyle and has been trained and certified by Dr. Matt James, of The Empowerment Partnership, and Board Certified by the Association for Integrative Psychology as a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Master Practitioner of Hypnosis and Mental Emotional Release® Therapy.
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reclaiming my sense of myself and my own power and
voice and healing my nervous system from even the  upheaval of divorce

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my journey of recognizing that there was so much  tension built up in my body because I even dealt  with some chronic pain for a few years in my late
twenty s

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that controls all of the other ones. In many
ways, you might call it top down regulation. 

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It’s our nervous systems and our nervous
systems reaction to a specific experience. 

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safety is very efficient, whereas the trauma
response does not have that fatty sheath.

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the body goes into this tremoring response,
this shaking that you can choose as you know

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that I dealt with and then just other physical
health struggles, I think I had not found ways 

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little stressful, but then you can come back and
you have techniques to calm the nervous system 

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of how people can make themselves pause so that 
they aren’t reacting with that reptilian brain. 

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I’m choosing to put my cortex back online is
sort of a first word, empathy for the self.

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with my parents and the way we engaged and
understanding that I am allowed to set boundaries 

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Or stay in a relationship that they’re  never going to change

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like to have people be able to find you online. So
can you tell us a few places that they can look? 

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that they want to explore for themselves.  Excellent

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Hosted by Lee Wright
Certified Divorce Coach

Season EBB & Flow Podcast Be Isnpired

I am a Divorce Coach and I work with my clients and community in many different areas to continue to heal and grow through the divorce process and in the years post-divorce.

This Podcast will talk about every aspect that I believe is helpful for both men and women who are navigating the choppy waters of the divorce itself, the gentle waves of healing that must take place as the divorce storm subsides and then the beautiful horizon as you look at the sun setting over the horizon and define what you want your future to look like in this next season of