Phoebe Glover LMT

A regulated nervous system isn't an always-calm nervous system.

A regulated nervous system is a responsive nervous system.

Calmness is a state, but regulation is capacity and flexibility to contain the various states of activation and emotion.

A regulated nervous system can

Mobilize into anger when a boundary is violated.
Experience fear when there is genuine danger.
Feel grief deeply in response to loss.
Become energized and excited by novelty or connection.
Experience stress during a difficult conversation.
Return toward equilibrium when the situation resolves.

The goal isn't to eliminate activation.
It's to develop the capacity to move through activation without becoming chronically stuck at any point in it.

Massage, bodywork, and other somatic work are not a magic reset button,
They are a *practice* of presence and awareness that can grow our capacity.

Today was whack but fortunately we have emergency whimsy rations.

I have an 11:30 appointment available tomorrow morning in Miramar!

Anyone up for a little self-care Sunday?

I have a 2:30 appointment available on Sunday (Florala only)

Researchers studied how the attention of the hands on practitioner affects the interoceptive experience and attention of the person receiving touch.

If my mind is wandering, it will feel great no matter what, but if I am mentally focused on the area that I am touching, the experience changes for the client.

Because somatic work builds on the basis of guiding clients to sensitize to their inner landscape and their own internal experience of their bodies (interoception), my attention and presence makes a measurable difference in the nervous system of the clients on my table.

Study link in the comments for the nerds🤓

SEPTEMBER

Open appointments:

Sunday 13th
1:30 (80 minutes)

Thursday 17th
5 PM (80 minutes)

Sunday 20th
1:30 (80 minutes)

Somatic practice in our house tonight.

My kids and I have been collectively a bit dis-regulated lately.

Transitions back to me working full time, kids back in school, and other life adjustments are taking a reasonable and expected toll on our capacity.

We are noticing less capacity to be in discomfort, capacity to be in stillness, capacity to handle frustration.

Tonight our somatic practice looks like noticing, inquiring, tracking.

Noticing and inquiring into whether the breath is nothing more than my body's response to its need for oxygen.

Letting the body dictate the rate, the rhythm, and the depth of the breath rather than imposing a rate, rhythm, or depth or symmetry on the breath from the mind,

We track each breath with a movement, with color; making a line with our hands, following that line with our eyes.

One line for each inhale.
Noticing. Inquiring. Tracking.

One line for each exhale.
Noticing. Inquiring. Tracking.

Not imposing anything new on the breath.

Just making an invitation to come into sync with the rhythm that is already there.

Integration is not in what we impose but in what we notice as it already is and then embody.

(My notepad is on the left. Myra's is on the right. We instinctively switched silently to parallel play after this because suddenly we find ourselves with capacity for stillness 😉)

The best messages!

Results make me happy.

This client had bilateral paresthesia (hands falling asleep/pins and needles) every night waking them from sleep, and very frequent headaches so we did focused work on the head and neck to invite relief.

Seeing rapid relief to chronic discomforts is so rewarding. 🎉 🥳 🙌

✨ Now booking virtual Emotion Code sessions and Reiki sessions ✨

Text 850 368 9895 to book.

Hey friends,

I have not posted anything publicly about this yet because it has been an emotional process for me, but I have had to step away from massage therapy work for the rest of the year.

My physical health is not quite where it needs to be to sustain full time physically-involved work.

I am working on regaining full strength and capacity hoping and planning to be back to work in January!

*AND* Between now and then, I am working on the process to be able to take insurance!!

I know this will make a difference to my clients ability to receive treatment more frequently and make more consistent progress in your own physical and emotional health.

Wishing you holidays overflowing with warmth and blessings!
See you on the flip side,
Phoebe