In this episode I’m chatting with Garrett Wood CMT, CSCS, NKT, P-DTR, who is the owner of Gnosis Therapy: Long Beach, CA’s #1 performance therapy clinic. Where they use the biopsychosocial model to turn Burnout into breakthroughs. Garrett is a coach, educator and speaker and super nerd on the bodies natural capacity for healing and performance.
Check Out Gnosis Therapy’s Website HERE
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Email Garrett to Book A Complimentary Session garrett@gnosistherapy.com
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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
- Garrett’s 3+ year battle with ongoing pain
- Inheriting the generational story of “lack”
- The experience that changed the trajectory of his life and caused him to switch from drinking to marathon training
- The isolating chapter of his life and the excruciating hip pain that surfaced
- ART (active release technique)
- How emotional trauma is directly linked to physical pain in the body
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Rubber Hand Experiment
- Why pain can be ongoing & why it’s not necessarily an indication of tissue/muscle injury
- Why ART gave him pain relief for the first time in 6 years
- Pain as in invitation to change
- You don’t get stronger from lifting weights, you get stronger from recovering from lifting weights
- Implicit (unconscious) encoding that occurs in your body when it experiences trauma
- Psoas tension as it specifically as it relates to trauma (low back pain, anterior hip pain) & as an indicator of stored trauma
- The body adapts to whatever feels most safe
- David Bracelli & TRE (trauma release exercises)
- Psoas loads when you’re triggered during flight, flight, freeze
- What expressing and releasing trauma actually looks like
- The role of shaking and shivering to release trauma
- Cost benefit analysis of different healing modalities
- EFT Tapping
- Hypnotherapy as a modality to alter neuroplasticity: memory retention, felt sense of implicit beliefs & feelings
- Theta and alpha brain waves
- Suffering as a subconscious identity
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