This is an issue for pretty much everyone you are working with clinically

I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago here about Shutdown as Dark Matter. It is pointing out that for most people, the presence of residual shutdown is actually experienced as an absence. A lack…a numbness…a gap…a lacuna…a failure to feel. Since what we cannot feel we do not tend to realize is absent, most people are not aware of the degree to which they are carrying around archived shutdown.

GROUND, which we released in hardcover and paperback December 15, is the second book in the Autonomics trilogy, and a grappling with this embodied absence, how things came to be this way, and what we might do about this.

It examines our uprootedness through the lens of (1) civilization– namely 12,000 years of deviation from our ancestral baseline in safety and connection, (2) lineage- namely what has happened in our families over approximately the last 100 years, (3) physiology- what is happening in our own autonomic nervous systems as a result of lifethreat responses, and (4) metabolism- how this plays out down at the celullar and metabolic level.

Starting next Tuesday January 13, and for four Tuesdays (Jan. 13, 20, 27 & Feb. 3) from 7-10 am Pacific time, I am going to teach practices of GROUNDEDNESS through this same 4-part lens. We will examine how we are to recover our experience of GROUNDEDNESS with respect to the meta-constructs of civilization, with respect to our families of origin, with respect to our own physiology, and with respect to our own metabolism.

There are several spaces remaining in this course. If you would like to begin the new year with an opportunity to dig deeply into rootedness, systemically explore what might be in the way of feeling your feet on the ground, reclaim the inward and the downward, & feel more contact with a primal sense of connection with the Earth herself, this might be a good use of your time, energy, and attention.