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In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore somatic healing, nervous system release, and why understanding your pain intellectually does not always mean your body has fully let it go.

You can read the books, go to therapy, name the wound, and understand exactly where your patterns came from, and still feel stuck in the same reactions.

That does not mean you failed at healing.

It may mean your body is still holding what your mind has already processed.

In this episode, Michael and Justin dive into somatic healing and the role the body plays in trauma, chronic stress, emotional suppression, and nervous system regulation. They explore why unresolved experiences can live as tension, hypervigilance, numbness, emotional volatility, exhaustion, and automatic reactions long after the original event is over.

This conversation is not about forcing an extreme emotional release. It is about learning how to come back into relationship with the body through breath, awareness, movement, honesty, and compassionate presence.

Because healing is not only something we understand.

It is something we integrate.

• Somatic healing is about working with the body, not bypassing it.
• Insight is important, but insight alone does not always create release.
• The nervous system can hold unresolved stress as tension, posture, hypervigilance, numbness, or automatic reactions.
• Your body is not resisting healing. It may be waiting to feel safe enough to complete what was never completed.
• Emotional suppression can disconnect us from what the body is trying to reveal.
• Movement, breath, sound, exercise, and mindful awareness can become healthy outlets for stored energy.
• Somatic work does not have to be extreme to be powerful.
• The body is not separate from the spiritual path. It is part of the whole being.
• Healing asks us to bring compassion, patience, and awareness to the places we have neglected.
• The goal is not to shame the body, fix the body, or overpower the body. The goal is to come home to it.

1. My body is not my enemy. It is trying to communicate with me.
2. I can listen to my body with patience instead of shame.
3. I do not have to force healing. I can create safety for it.
4. What I feel in my body deserves compassion and attention.
5. I am learning to release what I no longer need to carry.

1. Where does stress, fear, grief, or anger tend to show up in my body?
2. What emotions have I learned to minimize, suppress, or explain away instead of fully feeling?
3. What would it look like to treat my body as a partner in healing instead of something I need to overcome?

• Gabor Maté and his work on emotional suppression, chronic stress, and the body-mind connection.
• The broader idea behind The Body Keeps the Score, especially the way trauma and stress can live in the nervous system and body.

somatic healing, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, body keeps the score, emotional release, stored trauma, chronic stress, embodiment, breathwork, body awareness, hypervigilance, emotional suppression, healing journey, New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry, Justin Gates

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