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.
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.