It’s been a day of continuing to get things ready for the later half of the month when kids are scheduled to move back in. Dad led the charge of telling all the boys what to do and assigning tasks for the morning. They all participated in taking apart a bunk bed and moving mattresses up the stairs and into the now boys room. I’m a little nervous to give up my overflow sleeping room that I use sometimes in the middle of the nights when I cannot fall back to sleep. Sleep is so important these days.

When I wasn’t helping or doing laundry, I spent the other parts of the day rereading one of my top five reads of 2021 called Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment. I truly loved this book and reading it again is reminding me of where so much of my inspiration and ideas came from in this regard. This was one of the sources that discouraged any touch between the therapist and client because of the risk of re-traumatization.

But you’re supposed to do the movements together, some as simple as sitting in a chair and moving your head from side to side and noticing if and where you feel any sensations. Or noticing what it feels like to have your feet on the ground. Some of those I don’t like as much. Sometimes the idea is to tolerate discomfort and sit with it longer to know it is possible and does not need to frighten you. Other times it’s to notice discomfort and foster the internal sense and ability to adjust and change it.