Alijah Brod-Forest

​ If you ever spent a quiet morning walking along the river or watching the ocean glimmer through dunes covered in vegetation, you would know how the natural world can affect the nervous system allowing it to drop its guard and enter a state of calming presence. The body experiences a felt somatic sense of safety and resonance. And yet how many of us deal with chronic tension, persistent tightness, fibromyalgia, IBS or chronic fatigue even when we've given ourselves ample rest attempts....

Whole person body-mind approaches: Elijah Forest Therapy Why does anxiety tighten the chest before we consciously recognise it? Why can grief feel physically heavy? Why does shame make us want to withdraw, or anger leave our jaw clenched and our muscles tense? Why do some people continue to experience chronic pain or emotional distress long after an injury has healed or a difficult chapter of life has passed? Contemporary advances in neuroscience are providing fresh new insights into the...

"The body is not separate from the mind. Every sensation, emotion, memory, and movement is part of an ongoing neural conversation between the brain, the nervous system, and the world we experience." Pain Is More Than Tissue Damage Chronic pain is often interpreted through a mechanical lens exclusively, and when diagnosis fails to name the source of the issue, we are often left with pain management plans, sometimes involving pain numbing substances, and we find ourselves looping through...