Somatic Exercises with Liz Tenuto on Instagram: "unlocking your hips is the secret to freeing the trauma that lives in your body👇🏼 your pelvis, hips, and lower belly hold onto a state of hypervigilance from after trauma 🥹 this is called your abdominal pelvic brain…it’s rich with nerves and retains the memory of stress, acting as a second brain that controls your gut instincts and emotional well-being 😮‍💨 this area kicks in any time you experience danger but for trauma survivors or people li

Somatic Exercises with Liz Tenuto on Instagram: "you can have much better segs after you unlock your hips and release the stress out of your body👇🏼 too much stress doesn’t just make you tired, irritable, and anxious, it directly suppresses your segs horomones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) that’s why long-term stress leaves you with low desire, trouble getting ar0used, and segs that feels like “work” instead of pleasure... on top of that, stress makes your muscles brace, and your hips

Somatic Exercises with Liz Tenuto on Instagram: "you can live a full life without limits (even if you have CPTSD) 👇🏼 I haven’t been able to go to any professional sports games since 2010... I have CPTSD and used to get super overstimulated when there’s too much sound or lots of bright lights in my environment... and I also sometimes get scared in big crowds (I needed my environment to be as spa-like as possible for a long time, but at a certain point that felt boring and limiting... I’ve done