The Vital Side Podcast 107. Reclaiming Your Authentic Self Through Your Nervous System with Katie Olderman
Themes: Nervous System Regulation, Authenticity, Somatics, Trauma/Stress Response
TW: discussions around various types of trauma/childhood trauma
Episode:
Do you find it easy or difficult to project your authentic self in your everyday life? Trauma informed nervous system practitioner Katie Olderman joins Cait to discuss how she leads her clients into reclaiming their authenticity through nervous system regulation and somatic work. Katie shares how she develops the tools she teaches to her clients, the significant effect of the stress response on our bodies, and how to start practicing regulation no matter where you are in your journey.
Katie Olderman is a trauma informed nervous system practitioner, somatic healer and women's leadership coach and mentor. She supports high achieving women in rewiring their nervous systems so they can rewrite their stories, reclaim their playful, free, authentic self and create a future that truly lights them up. Through a unique blend of nervous system healing, mind body medicine, trauma informed coaching, polyvagal theory and cutting edge neuroscience Katie helps clients understand how to work with their mind, body, heart, and soul so they can truly feel safe, loved, and supported as they build the life of their dreams and play bigger than they ever felt possible.
Show Notes:
-Intro to Katie and her personal journey into becoming a trauma informed nervous system practitioner; realizing that all of stress and burnout is rooted in nervous system dysregulation; moving from helping clients/patients with just their physical bodies to helping them heal their mental, emotional, and energetic bodies as well
-Explaining how the nervous system is the “command center of the body”
-Learning to reclaim what we lose when we are stuck in the stress response
-Finding safety; activating the parasympathetic nervous system
-Accessing creativity when you find safety; how you can only do these through feeling, not thinking
-Katie defining more of what survival response and trauma really are
-How perfectionism affects the nervous system
-Nervous system healing is hard work, and takes time; but if you enter into it with the right intentions, it always works!
Resources:
-Follow Katie on Instagram here
-Click here to join Katie’s free facebook group Reclaiming Her
-Click here to book a 1:1 call with Katie
-Follow Rewire on Instagram here
-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co
-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
-Visit Lindsay’s Website
*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.