Why we do what we do...

Trauma is all around us. It is an ever present experience of the human condition and we are all survivors of trauma. So many people ask me, “why do you do what you do, doesn’t it seem never-ending to find a solution to trauma?”

Well, let’s get one thing straight, we cannot eliminate trauma. It is ever present and part of our overall mammalian experience. But humans are made to heal. Yet, I would also argue that we do not even heal from trauma. It is more remarkable than that! One of my mentors, Dr Amber Gray, always points out that we are not meant to cover our trauma with new skin and never see the scar. We do, however, restore ourselves through healing practices. We can recover, but we never go back to how we were before the trauma took place. This is not a negative aspect of humanity. It is a positive one. Because the result of healthy restoration can be self agency, a wider window of tolerance, an ability to call upon our innate resilience more readily, and a sense of empowerment that holds space for both hope of change and living through how things currently are (present moment experience). This restoration of trauma is one of Legacy Motion’s foundational building blocks.

So why do we do what we do? Because I believe that all humans have the capacity to restore themselves with assistance and opportunity to do so. Plus, anchoring into a body of wellbeing can establish a sense of “home” and relative safety in our bodies, even if that notion is not available anywhere else. “Home” can be a loaded word for those who might not have one, have been removed from their own, are migrating from one to another, are constantly uprooting from ones they establish, or who aren’t safe in those provided. But, through restorative movement based practices we can begin to establish a sense of coming home to our bodies. We do this work to offer a sense of “home” for every body in order to restore stable foundations, moments of comfort, relative security, and holistic community all within ourselves.