Ep 119| Featuring: Jill Miller

*Host's note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Jill Miller - a pioneer in forging links between fitness, yoga, athletics, massage, and pain management for over 30 years. 

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey - moving into body as a regulation tool as an overweight child, exercising with her mom and becoming addicted, using movement to control her body and shape, developing eating disorders, and finally admitting her somatic disconnection to a yoga teacher is when everything shifted
- Starting to let go by using "tend & mend" healing
- Through her body to feel her way out
- Pain in her gut and reconnecting to her emotions
- The topic of touch as a trauma survivor
- Gentle touch to enter parasympathetic nervous system
- Chronic stress is catabolic
- Learning how to tolerate the parasympathetic for survivors who have a hard time slowing down and/or resting
- The 5 P's of her program = perspective (shifting mindset),  place, pace of breath, position, and palpation
- Trauma eats away at the wellbeing and why you must recalibrate
- "All of me is welcome here"
- Practical steps for survivors who find body and breath work triggering -- starting with hands & feet (global response but grounding and safety)
- Self-massage
- A little movement begats a little more movement
- It's a process

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Learning the basics (or more) of polyvagal theory to give you a frame for understanding your nervous system
2. Go through things to move forward
3. Explore your self-injurious behavior so you can get to the root

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  Website (bio, exercises, and index to find a local teacher)
2. IG for TuneUpFitness
3. IG for Jill Miller
4. Her new book


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