Listening to What Your Body Is Holding: Somatic Accumulation + Allostatic Load
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Listening to What Your Body Is Holding: Somatic Accumulation + Allostatic Load
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In earlier episodes, we explored somatic tools for regulation—breathing practices, grounding anchors, visualizations—and they work. But even with tools like these, many of us still wake up exhausted, still carry chronic tension, still feel a bone-deep tiredness that sleep doesn’t touch.
That’s because there’s a deeper layer. Years of accumulated stress—what researchers call allostatic load—live in our tissues, our fascia, our jaw, our gut, our shoulders. The body doesn’t reset to zero at the end of each shift. It keeps a running total.
In this episode, Sarah explores how somatic accumulation shows up in the body of a maternity care provider, why quick-fix tools aren’t enough for this deeper layer, and how to begin shifting from an adversarial relationship with your body to one of compassion and listening.
Includes a guided practice—The Body Conversation—designed to be returned to again and again as you deepen your relationship with the body that has been carrying you through this work.
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