Ilana Grostern is a Montreal-based Self-Attunement and Somatic Coach. Her early career took her from graphic design to the launch of a sustainable business venture – a cloth diaper company that she ran for fifteen years. Her sensorial over-excitability attuned her to the needs of the body, leading her to pursue a certification as Canada’s first Whole30 coach.
TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- People who don’t know about their own giftedness lack information about themselves.
- Lack of self-understanding leads to frustration and being misunderstood. Therefore, it’s important to know who we are in order to have a better relationship with ourselves but also with others.
- The giftedness theme is completely missing from the mainstream.
- The giftedness angle gives a lot of clarity in the coaching realm.
- Somatic coaching is about healing the somatic-mind (Cartesian) split. No more “I think, therefore I am!”
- A lot of chronic illnesses in the gifted population due to the resonance between the body and mind.
- Ilana shows you to value neutral experiences of the body (soma) and map out what’s in the physical realm.
- The mind is a “meaning making machine”! The mind will jump to mental conclusion about the body from learned paste experiences without actually tuning in. We need to break this jumping to conclusion cycle.
- You are encouraged to flip the right with the left side! Ilana gives you the space to try new things without making you feel stupid.
- Coaching is about accepting where you are in this moment and learning a new way of doing something.
- The parents need to feel and relate to what their children go through. We start with our own healing first before we can support anyone else.
- People who are in chronic survival mode, are dis-regulated and might feel overwhelmed by this approach.
- Learning to increase the tolerance in the uncomfortable somatic moments will allow you to learn what the body is trying to tell you.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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PDF “Gifted people and their problems” by Francis Heylighen
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