Self Improvement – Exercise as Powerful Movement Therapy for Dysfunctional Childhood Healing – ACOA

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I, Danielle D'Onofrio, am NOT a therapist or doctor. I am an everyday person sharing personal experiences and the practices that have worked for me. My content, products and services DO NOT replace medical or mental health support from licensed professionals.

There are many effective practices that help promote healing and personal growth for adult children of dysfunctional family systems, adult children of alcoholic/addicts, ACOA, childhood trauma survivors, narcissistic abuse survivors, CPTSD. But few are more powerful and multi-dimensional than physical exercise. The myriad of holistic health benefits of exercise, along with its usefulness in self-discovery, mean that if you only pursued greater physical fitness along your self improvement journey, you’d still experience massive transformation.

If you find yourself struggling to launch into your self improvement journey, or your healing and growth have stalled – consider adding some type of physical exercise/movement therapy to your daily routine. It doesn’t have to be an hour-long workout; just choose some type of exercise/physical movement routine that resonates with you and commit to a small daily goal you can stick with and build upon.

Here are five reasons why exercise / movement therapy is a powerful tool to jump start and sustain your self improvement journey.

1. Physical exercise / movement therapy conditions us for the self improvement journey.

We may not be climbing Everest, but at times, the self improvement journey will feel that way. This journey entails some of the hardest, yet most meaningful work a human can do – and it’s a years-long experience filled with peaks and valleys. If we want to make meaningful change for ourselves in this lifetime, we can’t allow poor or mediocre health to distract our efforts. We must condition ourselves for the path ahead.

2. Physical exercise / movement therapy helps us redefine ourselves through improved health and habit creation.

By setting even the smallest of incremental goals around exercise each day, we give ourselves the opportunity to stick to what we say we’re going to do and achieve daily wins – which helps us build confidence and self-trust. Confidence and self-trust, when cultivated, help us replace the old, faulty beliefs that keep us stuck.

3. Physical exercise/movement therapy reduces stress.

Stress makes everything more difficult. It can stall healing and personal development completely because it throws us into survival mode, where we spin in old, dysfunctional habits. And if you struggle with CPTSD and emotional dysregulation, stress makes it harder to cope with triggers.

4. Physical exercise/movement therapy facilitates self-discovery.

Exercise is a powerful cure for holistic stagnation because it bring us face to face with ourselves in ways we don’t expect. In cultivating exercise habits, we’ll observe ourselves succeeding and failing; sticking with it and quitting; testing our limits and being lazy; achieving results and experiencing setbacks. It’s in all these different encounters that we learn about ourselves and determine how best to evolve.

5. Exercise raises your frequency

Physical exercise/movement therapy is a powerful tool for raising your vibe because even just a little bit improves how you feel; and sticking with it to achieve short and long term results improves what you believe about yourself.

TIME TO GET MOVING!

We’ve got all the reasons in the world to start a new exercise / movement therapy routine, As you can see, the benefits are plentiful and there’s so much to look forward to as we heal and grow. It’s just so worth it to put in the effort to make it all happen.