The Vital Side Podcast 29. Cultivate More Wealth Through a Body-Led Approach to Trauma Healing with Laura Guzman
What does healing your trauma have to do with cultivating more wealth? We’re joined by Laura Guzman to discuss the ways in which your body stores trauma and how to approach it with a body-based psychotherapeutic modality. Laura shares her past experiences with clients and how different traumas manifest, how unresolved trauma can prevent you from being present, as well as what it really takes to build wealth and stability in your business.
Laura Guzman is a Somatic Psychotherapist & LMFT for entrepreneurs and the founder of Soma Vida – the world's first Wellness Coworking Community, the global community Women Who Cowork, and her own therapy practice. Laura also sits on the board of Econa, the global center for excellence for entrepreneur mental wellness and she is passionate about supporting the emotional health and well-being of purpose-driven, audaciously ambitious entrepreneurs.
Show Notes:
-Laura’s personal journey navigating burnout and entrepreneurship
- How Laura solved the challenge of isolation for entrepreneurs by finding Soma Vida, a wellness co-working community
- Learning lessons of launching 2 businesses at the same time
- Definition of somatic therapy - what makes it different from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Hakomi, somatic experiencing, mindfulness-based therapy, presence-based therapy, & other bottom-up experiencing
- Unresolved trauma is the inability to stay present
- Bringing protective responses into the present in order to process fear and trauma
- Dropping the “need to know” when we don’t have language around past traumatic experiences
- Shifting from a solely masculine approach to building a business to a more feminine-based business model (i.e. shifting focus from external to the internal)
- Laura’s personal journey with experiencing her fear responses as an entrepreneur
- “Embodiment” and what it looks like to return to your body
- Inner work as the foundation for building a healthy business & work-life balance
- Simple tips to lead a more feminine-based business model
- Dan Segal’s S.I.F.T Approach
- Laura shares client success stories of entrepreneurs who had business breakthroughs after using a body-led approach
Resources:
-Visit Laura’s Instagram: @conciousambition
-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
- The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk
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