Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith Portals to the parasympathetic state and healing - pleasure, purpose, pause, and play. So how do we heal… Healing happens when we activate our parasympathetic nervous system. It all starts with safety. What does safety in your body feel like? When we are safe, the heart rate is usually low, but the variability between beats (or HRV) is high. The breath rate is slow, and there is a comfortable rhythm between breaths, usually with longer exhales. How to actively access this state varies from individual to individual: breath work, meditation, yoga, movement, touch, water, music, even gentle restraint, ensuring the right environment are all portals in. Sometimes somatic therapy or guided psychospiritual practices can help us access this state Once we reach this place of groundedness, energy can be released from struggle & resistance. It's like a recharging of our battery packs, energy is now free to move, problems dissolve with new thinking, clarity of purpose can arrive, creativity and activation of pleasure and play as well as service and flow becomes a new norm. What Am I – Children’s Book Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith https://tinakoopersmith.com/what-am-i-childrens-book/ ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~ Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality. Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul. As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness. She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated. When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW. Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love. To learn more: play.womensreproduction.com and info@womensreproduction.com To get more of Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/