Are you ready to learn how to release trauma and stress from your body? Do you want to let go of and heal from what has been troubling you throughout your life? How is healing related to remembering?
In this podcast episode, Lisa Lewis speaks about how to manage stress and release trauma from the body with Dominiece Clifton.
MEET DOMINIECE CLIFTON
Dominiece is the Founder of Move And Still, and the host of the School of Healing podcast. She is a lifelong learner, speaker, and author. She recently published a new book Hold Space To Heal, which offers 7 somatic approaches to release stress & trauma from the body. A self-proclaimed ‘stress-pert’, registered yoga instructor, and trauma-informed breathwork and meditation facilitator, she is passionate about educating others on how to manage stress more efficiently and release trauma from their bodies.
Visit Move And Still and connect with Dominiece on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
IN THIS PODCAST:
- Holding space to heal
- Healing as remembering
- Dominiece’s advice to listeners
Holding space to heal
Dominiece started working on her book in 2020 and self-published it in June of 2023. So much had changed in her life as she wrote the book, and she was able to add that depth to the writing.
We oftentimes think about our healing journey where we give someone else the responsibility of really doing it for us, or being in charge of it for us, but I strongly believe that we are capable of healing ourselves.
Dominiece Clifton
People may often assume healing is done for us by other people, through talk therapy or seeing a doctor. As much as you can gain extra support from the people around you, you need to also be an active agent in your healing journey for it to be real and long-lasting.
I think a lot of times we give our power away, especially in the Western world where we idolize doctors and therapists and all of these people and put them as the experts.
Dominiece Clifton
Healing as remembering
Dominiece suggests thinking about healing as remembering.
We are all born as these perfect beings and we forget that along our life journey, and so for me, healing is not [about] trying to get to be someone else. Healing is like remembering, an unmasking, getting to the core of who you are authentically, and so that is what [my] book is really about.
Dominiece Clifton
In her book, Dominiece discusses healing as remembering and shares seven different types of somatic approaches to getting back in touch with yourself to begin this journey.
She shares things that directly impacted and helped her life, and encourages the reader to own their power in having the ability to change their lives.
Dominiece’s advice to listeners
Recognize the power that you have to hold space for yourself to heal.
With her book, Dominiece encourages you to:
- Release the hurt and the pain that you have been carrying around and unconsciously holding onto.
- Reconnect with the deeper sense of you, and who you are. Become more intimate with your intuition, your higher self, and your soul. Commit to learning who you are, beyond the everyday conditioning that you have either developed or been taught.
- Remember your most pure self from when you were younger. This is a continuous process that you take with you while you live forward. You remember your power and take it with you going forward.
I just want to remind people that are listening of how powerful we are at the soul level … This world that we live in divides us, we get labeled, we get put into categories or boxes … Allowing myself to remember and step into that light and not be afraid to let that light shine to the world has been such a transformative process for me.
Dominiece Clifton
Everyone is connected, so the more that you heal yourself, the more that you uplift the community and the world around you.
RESOURCES MENTIONED AND USEFUL LINKS
BOOK | Dominiece Clifton – Hold Space to Heal: Seven Somatic Approaches to Help You Release, Reconnect, and Remember Your Power
Visit Move And Still and connect with Dominiece on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Listen to the the School of Healing podcast.
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ABOUT THE AM I OK? PODCAST
So you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive” and perhaps you replay situations in your head. Wondering if you said something wrong? You’re like a sponge, taking in every word, reading all situations. Internalizing different energies, but you’re not sure what to do with all of this information. You’re also not the only one asking yourself, “am I ok?” Lisa Lewis is here to tell you, “It’s totally ok to feel this way.”
Join Lisa, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as she hosts her, Am I Ok? Podcast. With over 20 years of education, training, and life experience, she specializes in helping individuals with issues related to being an empath and a highly sensitive person.
Society, and possibly your own experiences, may have turned your thinking of yourself as being a highly sensitive person into something negative. Yet, in reality, it is something that you can – and should – take ownership of. It’s the sixth sense to fully embrace, which you can harness to make positive changes in your life and in the lives of others.
This may all sound somewhat abstract, but on the Am I Ok? Podcast, Lisa shares practical tips and advice you can easily apply to your own life. Lisa has worked with adults from various backgrounds and different kinds of empaths, and she’s excited to help you better connect with yourself. Are you ready to start your journey?