VIDEO: Replace Stress and Trauma with Resilience with STRT

Jan Normanton • May 31, 2023

So this beautiful therapy STRT is an opportunity to support clients to recalibrate their nervous systems, to come into a beautiful state of rest and digest and over time with regular sessions what can happen is this nervous system undoes the original wiring, these wirings that are primed to turn a client into the stress state all the time gradually these dissolve and in its place new neural pathways are formed which means that the client is more inclined to drop into a state of safe and social as a default rather than the stress state. 


What this means invariably is that in place of these autonomic, automatic states of stress which take up an inordinate amount of energy and can be exhausting and can result in a whole raft of physical, mental, emotional issues, pain, overwhelm, a mind that we can’t switch off , distress, upset, lack of energy, exhaustion and furthermore, longer term conditions overtime. 



Instead of that we can create that expansiveness, support the system to get into the rest and digest state which means that in the place of all of that pain on every level, we can replace that with resilience. 


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