Developmental Trauma Training Institute

I was living with an underlying unhappiness in my life, and I was avoiding being fully in my life because of stress.

Not intentionally—but as a way of getting through the day. I would narrow my attention, not fully take things in, and move from one thing to the next without really landing in my experience.

And I would talk about it. I would try to understand it and make sense of it.

But I also noticed that didn’t really change much. I kept living the same life in the same way, even with more insight into it.

What I learned was that I didn’t come back to myself through insight or understanding alone.

I came back through movement.

Through something simple, like walking in nature.

And in that movement, I started to return to my own experience—back into my body, back into the moment I was actually in, and back into a life that felt more like mine again.