Sensing Ground: Beyond Symptoms and Navigating Bodily Sensations

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Live group call for the Rock Steady community, held on March 20, 2024.

Joey Remenyi talks with Caitlin Hughes and Teena Mogler, Social Workers based in Australia. Topics and themes discussed include: What is masking? Camouflaging - Strategies used to blend into our social surroundings, or present ourselves as different from who we are. Profile - Compensation — Strategies used to actively compensate for difficulties in social situations. Examples: copying body languag...

Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks with Charlotte Byrnes, an osteopath and pain educator based in Australia, on reframing pain. We talk about context, safety and danger, language, mirror neurons, changing science and more. What is pain? Why is pain protective? Learn more about Joey: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/ Learn more about Charlotte: https://angleseaosteopath.com/team...

Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks about why neurodivergent or chronic symptom folks can feel exhausted in daily life. How can we arrange our life and lifestyle to function at our average? Can we increase our awareness of functioning at our best too often and increasing the risk of burnout? This is a neurodivergent affirming community. Learn more about the Rock Steady Program he...

Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International answers a common question about avoiding, dismissing, denying or distracting ourselves from bodily sensations versus taking the NBD or NO BIG DEAL approach to our inner experience. Learn more about the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks about the paradigm shift and philosophical difference between viewing sensations or symptoms. This is one way we can take our power back and get to know our body and its innate intelligence. Learn more about the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about the overall picture of our brain and what is happening as we experience fluctuating auditory function. It could be useful to consider your neurotype and understand how your brain and body process information. Learn about the executive brain function and 'administration desk' of your brain--this helps you to filter sounds and make sense of the world. Learn more about Joey and the R...

Joey talks about how we can bring the Rock Steady skills and tools into our lives as parents and grandparents. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about the challenges that can arise while meditating or sitting quietly and body scanning with an experience of tinnitus. How can we approach this and move through it? Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about what it means to listen to the body and respond to the interoceptive messages that we experience. Learn some simple examples of listening and responding, and learn where tinnitus fits into the overall process. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about how our brain organises information and sensory inputs and what sometimes we do not hear our tinnitus and our executive brain and admin team help to filter it out and lower its importance while attending to other neural inputs. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about understanding your body and brain when it comes to our stress cycles and our 'rest and digest' cycles. Learn about your parasympathetic nervous system as much as your sympathetic 'stress' response. Learn to cultivate desired sensations by knowing your joy, pleasure, desire and special interests. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com...

Joey talks about ADHD and tinnitus. Are medications helpful, harmful or somewhere in between? Are ADHD'ers more susceptible to tinnitus? Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about the female menstrual cycle from the perspective of learning to listen to your body and to be reflective each month, to learn what is and is not working for you. She then talks about perimenopause and the process of reshaping ourselves during this time. It is a powerful time to deeply listen to the body and to honour boundaries. The body speaks loudest during hormonal life stages a...

Joey talks about the process of being with ourselves when we need to pause, slow down and recuperate. What is our body teaching us and how do we capture the wisdom of the body as we spiral in and out of health (as all human beings do)? Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about how we can build our attentional skills and grow our confidence in shifting our attention to where we want it to be. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about some tricks and tips for experiencing fear and dizziness when entering supermarkets. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about the limitations of prescribed generic vestibular exercises. Learn to create your own neuroplasticity daily practices, to understand your body, your limits and capacity, and to keep your symptoms at a gentle intensity the whole way through using neuroplasticity. Exacerbation of symptoms can lead to flight, fight, freeze, fawn 'fear response' and this negates healing with neuroplast...

Joey talks about why glasses may not be the 'linear' answer to your visual issues. Learn about how our brain processes visual inputs and why it is more of a complex and non-linear situation when it comes to chronic symptoms and neurodivergence. Learn more about Joey and the Rock Steady Program here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about the The difference between identity and diagnostic labels. Many of my clients are given conflicting medical diagnostic labels and this can lead to even further debilitating confusion. When discussing neurotypes and neurodiversity, I am inviting you to step away from diagnosis and instead become curious about your brain processing style. This is a conversation about identity: who a...

Joey talks about the cultural differences in communication and empathy for neurodivergent people. She invites us to all be aware of our neuro-cultural differences, that are not better or worse, just different among different our varied neurotypes. Learn more about Joey here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/our-story/

Joey talks about the differences between the 'medical disability model' and the 'social disability model'. She talks about internalised ableism and what it is, and why it is important for folks with chronic symptoms. Learn more about Joey and Rock Steady here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/

Joey talks about our executive brain function and how the presence of chronic symptoms can reduce our capacity for other mental loads in life. Learn some simple tips and tools to navigate getting the best out of your brain and how to support your overall brain function despite chronic symptoms. Learn more about ROCK STEADY here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/