I spent years chasing the perfect body, diet, workout routine until I realized what I was really chasing was safety, love, and acceptance within myself.
This image says it all:
2019 vs 2025.
Vegan. Modeling. Overtraining.
Smiling outside, disconnected within.
I was chasing life.
Now I’m loving it.
Here’s how I stopped running from my emotions and came home to my body:
The body stores everything you didn’t feel.
The grief you avoided.
The rage you swallowed.
The fear you buried to survive.
It doesn’t just disappear.
It hides in your gut.
Your jaw.
Your breath.
Your fascia.
You can’t out-train trauma.
You have to release it.
I used to train to escape myself.
Every workout was a coping mechanism.
I ran from the stillness.
I thought discipline would save me.
Now? I move to meet myself.
I breathe through resistance.
I open the body with fascia maneuvers.
I let the nervous system unwind.
This is the work that truly healed me.
Fascia is the fabric of your trauma.
I used to think tension was from training.
But most of it was emotional.
Fascia holds your history.
And if you don’t unwind it gently, with breath, intention, and presence, You stay stuck in the same loops.
I stopped fighting my body.
I started feeling it.
Nutrition didn’t heal me, but it helped me come home.
I was vegan because I thought it made me “clean” and it’s the only way.
But I was disconnected from my gut and intuition.
Now I eat whole foods. Mostly animal-based.
Not from rules, but from feeling.
When your nervous system calms, your cravings shift.
You stop eating from trauma.
You start eating from truth.
I don’t chase anything anymore. I feel everything.
I release grief from the gut.
Shame from the throat.
Tension from the jaw.
The body remembers what the mind forgets.
And the path to freedom isn’t mindset work, it’s embodiment.
It’s learning to feel safe in your own skin.
This is why I created Mindful Movemend.
This is why I teach fascia release, nervous system healing, and somatic trauma work.
join my next class:
August 10 | 8:30am PST | Full Body Fascia & Emotional Release
This is the second DIY jaw release I use to unlock rage, grief, and trauma stored in the face by tapping into the cranial nerves and fascia.
Try it and feel everything shift.
The jaw is a vault for suppressed emotion.
•Rage you never expressed
•Words you couldn’t say
•Grief you swallowed
•Stress you chewed on at night
Most people grind their teeth and clench their jaw without realizing they’re locking trauma into their face.
Here’s how to release it (try this now):
•Make fists.
•Push up into the corners of your jaw with both fists.
•Open your mouth as wide as you can.
•Push your head down into the resistance.
•Inhale through the nose.
•Exhale like a silent scream.
The DIY Jaw Release: A 90-second technique to downregulate the nervous system, open the breath, and release stored tension from the face, neck, hips, pelvic, and gut.
Most people hold years of unprocessed stress in thejaw and face.
This area is connected to the vagus nerve, cranial tension, and emotional regulation.
Releasing it affects everything from breath depth to gut, hip and pelvic tension.
How to perform the Jaw Release on yourself:
•Place your index fingers inside your mouth, one on each side.
•Press them gently but firmly all the way back along the top gums behind the last tooth.
•Anchor your thumbs under the chin to create leverage.
You should feel pressure along the fascia of the upper jaw.
Breathe 6 times in through nose and out through mouth. Open the mouth as wide as you can on exhale.
Move your had as you see in the video.