Full Body Presence Quotes

“We get into trouble with one another when we expect others to act as we would and then take it personally when they don't.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“Many of our unhealthy and unproductive behaviors originated as a means of self-protection. We learned to withhold our opinions, do what we were told, follow an acceptable career path, marry an acceptable partner, keep our anger under wraps or use it as a shield, dress in a way that doesn't draw attention - the list goes on and on. Until we start to wake up, to explore what's inside us, we hardly notice we are living by rules that stifle us.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“Remember your intention to heal, to reclaim your energy and dreams, and remember the practices that restore you.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“We are meant to have every part of ourselves in communication with every other part.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“The ability to feel a sense of connection to the larger universal energy honors the innate intelligence of your body as an internal compass. As you deepen this connection, you learn to navigate by using your internal compass, rather than the world's expectations or input from others alone.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“When we learn to trust that support is there for us and lean into that trust, it leads to a doorway of many new possibilities. This is much more powerful than simply visualizing a positive outcome and tenaciously trying to hold on to it.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“I have developed confidence in what I am doing because I have learned to act from the core of who I am.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“Many of our idiosyncratic defense mechanisms may have originally served as brilliant survival tactics, particularly if we overcame traumatic events or circumstances. However, in most cases, these adaptations are now obsolete.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“We are taught to ignore our gut instincts and to be polite instead. ... We are rewarded for overworking, often at the expense of our health - raising our stress levels even more. We are taught to live in our heads and to ignore the body's wisdom.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom

“Our bodies are the containers for our spirits.”
― Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom