Your Body Is Telling on You: Burnout, Chronic Pain & Nervous System Healing

In this powerful episode of Don’t Ask Me Shit, Coach Dorie sits down with Dr. Danielle Griffin to break down what’s really happening when your body starts shutting down—and why ignoring stress can cost you more than you think.

Dr. Danielle shares her personal journey through burnout, grief, and overwhelm during one of the most intense seasons of her life. Despite doing “all the right things”—working, staying active, eating well—her body began to deteriorate. From sleep deprivation to chronic pain and high blood pressure, the warning signs were there… but like so many of us, she kept pushing through.

Until she couldn’t.

This conversation dives deep into the truth about nervous system dysregulation—what it actually looks like in real life (not just buzzwords), how stress gets stored in the body, and why so many high achievers are silently suffering.

You’ll learn:

•  What a dysregulated nervous system really is 
•  How stress turns into chronic pain 
•  Why you feel exhausted even when you “rest” 
•  The connection between burnout, trauma, and your body 
•  How somatic practices, breathwork, and hypnotherapy help you heal 
•  Why awareness is the first step to real change 

Dr. Danielle also clears up common myths about hypnotherapy (no, nobody’s making you cluck like a chicken) and explains how these tools work alongside—not instead of—traditional medicine.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, exhausted, or stuck in survival mode… this episode is your wake-up call.

Because your body is always talking. The question is—are you listening?

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Welcome, welcome to Don't Ask Me Shit the podcast, where we stop pretending, stop sugarcoating, and stop dancing around the real issues. I'm Coach Dory, stress management and relationship recovery coach, here to help people heal from toxic family, friends, and romantic partnerships. This is the place where this is the place where conversations people avoid relationships, accountability, self-sabotage, healing, boundaries, and all the messy stuff that folks don't want to talk about. But here's the deal: you can ask Coach Dory anything, but if you're not ready to do the work, don't ask me shit because I'm not here to co-sign your excuses. I'm here to help you grow. So let's get into it today. Um, today I have a very special guest, Dr. Danielle Griffin, is a and she is a TEDx speaker and coach dedicated to empowering busy professionals to overcome the complex interplay of physical discomfort and emotional overwhelm. As an award-winning author of Somatic Exercise Made Simple, she specializes in helping high achievers reclaim their focus, boost productivity, and enhance their presence through accessible mind-body practices. And I'm going to turn it over to her and let her tell you who she who she is and what she does. Hi, Danielle. Welcome to Hi Dory. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 1:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

So what do you do beside? I mean, I mentioned your book. So you're an author, you're a coach, you're a speaker. Um, what do you specialize in?

SPEAKER_00 2:10

Yeah, I help individuals identify when they're experiencing burnout, when they're experiencing overwhelm, when they're experiencing um, you know, grief or trauma situations in which they can't get themselves out of. And I use somatic exercise therapy, hypnotherapy, you know, breath work, meditation movement, essentially, um, to help people identify their triggers and where they're carrying some of that stress, chronic pain, so they can relieve it and start to heal their bodies.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Okay. So you wear a lot of hats. You're also a yoga instructor. Right to what led you to this work and what made you realize that the nervous system was missing the missing piece for so many people?

SPEAKER_00 3:09

It was really through my own personal journey where I started learning about it. Um, you know, feeling the overwhelm, the burnout. Um, I suffered loss during the COVID pandemic, um, lost my father. My husband lost his father. Um, your whole house was grieving, had a newborn, was working a full-time job, having to go in the office, um, had a business, you know, like you mentioned, wear wear all the hats, do all the things, you know, having to attend to family, getting very little sleep, you know, three to four hours of sleep each night, um, and still trying to, you know, just make ends meet, trying to survive, not realizing that my health was deteriorating in the process. Um, it wasn't until my husband noticed it in me, you know, noticing all the gray hair popping up, the bags under my eyes, the sluggishness, the, and like I mentioned, that um health issues, hypertension, um, back pain, and even while being active, while teaching yoga, you know, all the things that we're told, eating healthy, doing all the things that we think we're supposed to, but still not feeling like myself, feeling disjointed, feeling disconnected, just um kind of head down, just going completely unaware of how I'm feeling.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

You know, and it wasn't until I really stopped to notice, like, wow, I you know, not trying to sound superficial, but yeah, I am looking old. I wasn't even 40 yet. Like, what's going on? Not so and you know, once I realized, yeah, I am looking, I I'm feeling that way too. Like if I actually give myself a moment to uh have some self-awareness, like yeah, I do feel that way. I'm like trying to get my blood pressure down, trying to do all the things, but um I'm not being successful at it. What like what's really going on? So it wasn't until I started doing the research, understanding different holistic methodologies and practices available where I came upon somatic exercise as well as the hip practice of hypnotherapy, where I learned that I have more control over my mind and body than I thought I did. Yeah, I can do, yeah, I can exercise, yeah, I can do all these things, but I didn't realize that if I push pause for a minute and stop the burnout, stop the go, go, go, actually have some self-awareness, actually looking within, taking a moment to not be on all the time, not always, like every minute of my day serving others all the time and taking some time to serve myself. It it was a reset for my body.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Could you um I know you mentioned your blood pressure and different things, could you feel it in other parts of your body when you finally settled down long enough to be aware of what was happening to you? Were there other physical symptoms that were happening?

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Yeah. Um, I think the biggest thing was the sleep. You know, when I was burned out, and especially if when I was going through high stress situations, that that point in my life was very stressful. You know, just the amount of work that I had, the amount of work that I put on myself, because I struggled with saying no to a lot of things, you know, taking on tasks. Um and once I took the time to say yes to myself and start to relieve some of the attention that I carry to understand um what my body needs, how how to get a restful night's sleep. You know, I just thought like, you know, that was life. You know, I didn't not that I didn't necessarily need sleep. I knew that I needed sleep, but like, you know, hey, I'm I'm busy all the time. I'm working, staying up till two and three o'clock in the morning, getting up the next day. Um, but I found myself in this cycle where because I was taking on so many things, avoiding how I was feeling, avoiding the opportunities to observe and release by putting more on my plate.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Right.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Right. And so once I stopped putting all those things on my plate, started taking time for myself, started getting going to bed earlier, started learning what a healthy sleep habits are for me, um, which included the the exercise, the somatic exercise, the meditation, breath work, calming my mind and body down before I go to sleep so that I could get a restful night's sleep. That was the the biggest change. Like, wow, what does you know, six to eight hours feel like?

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Well, I'm I can't even I don't remember myself. Right, right. Well, that's cool. Um, so uh I know a lot of people are talking about dysregulated nervous systems right now. It's kind of like the buzzwords. Right. But so what does that actually mean when we say uh dysregulated nervous system in real life?

SPEAKER_00 9:32

Yeah. Um, it's basically looking at understanding what our triggers are and knowing that if I'm approached either by a certain person or a word or a situation, I might become reactionary, whether it's I'm yelling at people, crying, avoiding, you know, there it could be a number of different things. Um and our nervous system is going into you know a fight, flight, or freeze type situation. And it's not until again that we actually kind of take the moment to pause and understand, like, hey, I'm doing this repeated behavior. And it's you know, maybe becoming a problem either for me or for other people around me, you know, significant others, kids, work, and trying to not become defensive about it, right? But to understand what's going on and to start that regulation process, you know, what what truly is triggering me? And using some of the the exercises, you know, I usually start with the breath work, doing some gentle movement, seeing where I'm carrying some of the tension, and why is it when maybe this project comes up at work or this person asked me to do something, why do I start acting that way? Where do I immediately want to tense up and clinch up or whatever the case may be, and start to relieve some of that, start to understand when we make that connection, when this happens, this happens, we can rewire our system.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

So how does that turn into the chronic pain? I mean, because it makes sense to me on a chemical level, but at some point, if you don't recognize it, if you're not aware and you don't pause, it turns into the pain that you feel in your body. How does that turn into chronic pain?

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Yeah, because when we become reactionary, right, our our muscles will tense up in various parts of our body, and it can it will vary for each person where they carry that tension. But it's that repeated event, right? And the repeat of it happening and the repeat of us not releasing it. And you know, the definition of uh chronic is when it's been occurring for three plus months. So if you if you've been carrying stress, pain for three or more months, you know, and it I know some people were like, well, I wasn't stressed yesterday, but now I'm stressed today, like that's that's still stressed, right?

SPEAKER_02 12:43

And say every day for 120 days, right? For three months, you are still stressed. Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Some people want to try to die like micro, like, okay, this day, this day, not this day, but right three three plus months you're carrying that stress and pain, that's when it becomes chronic. If you have not taken the time to relieve it consistently, right, then you start to carry that that that pain, you know, back pain, shoulder pain. I know for for me, especially having been a desk worker, a lot of mine was neck and shoulder, right? And just continue to hammer it out at the computer, going from meeting to meeting, um, and not taking the time to relieve it. And eventually, like, wow, why am I having severe shoulder pain or why am I having severe neck pain? Um, you know, if I wasn't doing some of the movement or recognizing the point where my body needed the relief, it it's gonna start transpiring into that chronic pain.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

I wish I I needed you 15 years ago. My shoulder would just lock up, and I could not move my shoulder, have to walk around with a sling, and did not realize then that it was the stress that I was under. And then I started lock jaw, my jaw would lock. And I'm just like, what is all of this? And so yeah, um I was surprised. So it makes sense with headaches and you know, stomach aches and stuff like that, but I never thought about the physical tension in my body. So um, with that, how do you so tell me with somatic practices, yoga, and hypnotherapy? I don't know why I want to keep saying hypo something. It's like hypothermia. No, it's not cold anything, hypnotherapy. And I know to some people that sounds woo-woo. It's like, what, what? You're hypnotizing, but how do all of those things work together? Or they do they work together or are they separate practices that you use for different people or different situations?

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Um for my practice, they work together. So somatics is you know, breath work, meditation, and movement. And so the meditation practice that I use is the hypnotherapy. You know, sometimes we depending on what we're doing, if I'm doing one-on-one, we'll definitely go deeper. If I'm just doing some general coaching, um, we may not go as deep, but I use like hypnotherapy, the neurolinguistic practice to help rewire the brain, to help individuals get out of those um patterns, those negative patterns, whether it be thought patterns or habits that they have, helping them to go deeper into the subconscious to understand why they do certain things or why they're triggered by certain things, or visioning their life in a healthier way, doing healthier habits, whatever that looks like for them. Um, and so that's where the hypnotherapy comes in. But I like I said, I replace the meditation with the hypnotherapy, and that's basically all hypnotherapy is is a deeper form of meditation. Um and then the yoga practice is the the movement. Now I don't necessarily always do full yoga, but that the yoga postures are often the inspiration for the various types of movement in the somatic practice. Um, we focus on mobility, you know, using the movement to relieve the tension. Um, and the the yoga postures are often accessible. Um, they can be done either on the ground or in a chair or standing, um and just you know, some general stretches as well. So any form of movement that you can do, you know, I say while breathing, but breath to movement. So it would be slow movements, um, not running a mile, right? It's like mobility-based style movements. So just my yoga training has um helped me and what kind of leaded me into the somatic practice.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

It sounds like it's um all of it is just more intentional work, right? Like you said earlier, pausing, just slowing down and paying attention to everything in your body, things that are going on around you. I want to uh talk a little bit more about the hypnotherapy because again, most people think and they hear hypnotizing and they think they're gonna end up naked in a football field somewhere and they don't know how they got there. But you know, that doesn't seem to be what you do. I don't see you taking over someone's mind and making them things that they don't intend to do. So is there what are we missing when we have that vision of what we think hypnotherapy, hip hypnotics, and hypnotherapy is versus what you do? What are we missing?

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Um, the one big misconception about hypnotherapy is that the person that's leading you, the person that's hypnotizing you, a lot of people think that they're controlling your mind, that they're able to make you do something you don't want to do. But that's actually, you know, false. I, as a hypnotherapist, cannot make a person do anything they want to do. If they don't want to be hypnotized, I can't force them to go under. Um, I can use the art of suggestion to help them. Um, and there's various techniques. Um, if you know, if they want to come out of it, they can come out of it. They just say, I don't want to do this anymore, and they can stop at any point in time. And I think that's where a lot of people think, oh, they see they've may have seen stage performers and they're like, oh, well, they were making these people cluck like a chicken on stage. Right. Well, not necessarily that somebody came in with the intent that, oh, I'm gonna go on stage and cluck like a tick a chicken, but they may have gone into the situation where like, I know I'm going to a hypnotherapy show. I want to be hypnotized, I want to be a part of it, so they might be more open to the suggestion. And if it was clucked like a chicken and they're okay with clucking like a chicken on stage, then they would have done it. It might have felt more easier or more natural than if they weren't hypnotized. You know, some people have stage frighter things like that. But if they were already open to it and you know, trusting the person that's leading them and all the things, then you can do it. So I think that's probably the the biggest thing. Um, and then what I do specifically, I'm not making people cloak like chickens because that's not my focus. You know, we all have kind of different niches and specialties, and I focus on the pain management, the stress management, rewiring the brain so that we can use these practices on a regular basis, understand how it's helping us and making us healthy, um, and as well as just visualizing our lives, setting positive intentions and setting subconscious goals for our mental and physical health. And I do that through the hypnotherapy.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Okay. So how does this uh because a lot of people are finding traditional medications, therapy, and things aren't doing what they expected it to do? Um how does I'm trying to weird question, how is this different? How does this help them when traditional medicines aren't Working anymore.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

Yeah. I would say that this can I wouldn't replace traditional medicine with this, right? Okay. This is in support. This will allow a person to have more awareness of how they're feeling so that when they go into a doctor's office, when they go into the therapist office, they can give them more details to get the care that they need, right? So it's not, you know, sometimes um individuals might go into the office like, oh, I'm just hurting or I don't feel well and have a hard time understanding where it's coming from, how they're feeling, and then end up going to 50 billion doctors' appointments, going to different specialists, trying to figure it out, and you know, sometimes even getting responses from doctors like nothing's wrong. Like we can't figure out anything that's wrong with you. And honestly, for some people, because they're carrying that stress and pain for so long and it's triggered by certain things, not that there's not anything wrong with them, but there may not be anything that traditional medicine can do for you right away until you do something for yourself. And so this is kind of that start to really start to do something for yourself, make a physical mental change, and find some of that relief on your own. Um either before or during that you know seeking the medical treatment. Some surgeries may not be necessary if you you start to do the work.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Yeah, so it just sounds like you've become a part of someone's medical team or wellness team to help them to work through. And that actually makes sense. I notice now for me, when I go to the doctor now, I can walk in and say, hey, this is what's going on, this is what's going on, this is how I've been acting out with it, this is what's going on, this is where my body hurts. Where do what do I need to do? Whereas before, you know, 15, 20 years ago, I go to the doctor, it's like, I don't know what's going on. Even the doctor said to me then, she said, I'm not an I don't tell people to get a divorce, and that's not what my doctor was telling me. However, I was homeschooling my children and was having going through a rough marriage, and my doctor said, Dory, if you leave that husband of yours and put your kids in school, all of this will go away. And it did, it did, it shifted because then it's like, oh, now different stresses, but she was right, and and that just that awareness helped me to begin to heal. So that's and that's kind that's what you're saying, just it puts you in a position of being aware.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Um I think for some people too, like where the hypnotherapy comes in, like using your situation as an example, you you might have had that awareness, but still have the fear of making the change, or fear of what the next steps are, or um, you know, just certain things holding you back, and you know, being able to do some of that mind work to kind of overcome either limiting beliefs or just visualize an alternative for you, even if it wasn't putting kids in school or leaving the spouse, you know, what is what's another alternative? And that's how it came about for me when I learned about the hypnotherapy practice um doing recordings and you know, for myself, I was able to see a life for myself where I wasn't overworked, where I wasn't burned out. You know, I didn't necessarily know it was gonna turn into all of this, right? But like, oh, I can actually still have a life, still make money, and not be burned out. And I see myself doing that. I see myself getting rest. I see myself happy and healthy and all the things. Right. And then once your mind can see it and you it knows it will know it's true and it will make it happen. It may not have all the the steps, but things start to fall in place. Um, and that's when I saw that for myself and saw in real time that happening. I was like, I have to I have to learn this, I have to show other people that this works and they can do it too.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

That's where the coaching comes in, too. Right. Exactly. So they all work. If you had to put them in, I know they all work together, and it sounds like you do a little bit of all of it to at the same time, right? But if you had to put them in order, is there an order to it that you start with one and end with another?

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Um at least with my eight-week program that I do, um starting with building some of the awareness, starting creating a somatic practice, so um finding different exercises based on physical needs, ailments, um, and tweaking it a little over time, and about halfway through the program doing some of the the deeper mind work and the rewiring, like, okay, where where are your hangups at this point, right? Why if you have are not on the path to creating a lifestyle for yourself and this is not becoming a routine habit, what are the blocks? What's the constraints? And like I said, just doing some of the the mind work, the hypnotherapy, the coaching, um, the coaching happening throughout, but really the you know, going a bit deeper. And then by the end of the eight weeks, it really should be a um, you know, like I said, a lifestyle, knowing okay, these exercises really work for me. I know what my triggers are, I know what when I'm feeling this way, I should do these movements. It's best when I do it morning, afternoon, evening. And you know, by the eight weeks, really fully understanding the individual, like transferring it from me as the coach, showing you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, to the individuals owning it and knowing when they need to do it.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Okay. So what are one maybe one or two um simple practices that someone can do daily that can actually make a difference?

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Yeah. Um the best one I call just the 90-second pause because oftentimes when we're in stressful situations or back-to-back meetings, we just need a quick moment to relieve some of the tension because we know, like, oh man, I have a busy day. And that stress is just gonna keep building up throughout the day. And by the end of the day, I'm gonna be debilitated. Right, right. And so being able to find, you know, just those 90 seconds to pause, you know, taking some breaths, being able to relax the tension in the neck and shoulders, doing some gentle movements, whether it's neck stretches, shoulder stretches, and then the deep breaths to like really relieve and let it go.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

Right.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

That's does a whole lot to just reset the body and allow a person to to move forward in their day.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

So when you were doing that, my next question is how do you how do you stop and do that with a person standing in front of you that may be broke? Because when you started moving your neck and breathing, that looked a little hostile. Like you were telling somebody, you need to get out of my face, and you need to get out of my face right now.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Well, not necessarily during a meeting, but you know, but in between sessions, you know, if you're like, all right, have back-to-back meetings before I hop on the next call. Let me take this these few moments. Yeah.

unknown 31:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Okay, because you know, sometimes in that moment, the person that's triggering you is standing right in front of you. Um, how are we getting ready to handle this? This is getting ready to be a whole problem. Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

So I but hopefully if you do the practice, like you know, okay, I'm about to go into a meeting with a specific person that often triggers me. Let me do this breath work real quick. Let me do this movement to reset how I feel, you know, have more clarity about the situation before I go into it. So hopefully the the conversation is more civil or you know, whatever the case may be. And then once you see your way out of it, doing some more movement, like, all right, I can I can breathe, I can recover.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Yeah, I need I needed that clarified because some of my listeners, I I'm not too sure about a few of these ladies.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

But you're right, you know, um for an outsider, right? If they're not understanding certain movements or things that we do, can come across you know different ways. Um depending on your environment, you know, if you're in a work situation and that's the the culture of the organization, then okay, we're embracing wellness and we allow people to stop and take breaks, or if they aren't of that mindset, then you just have to kind of adapt and like, okay, I need to do it during these certain times. Um, that works best for me.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Okay. So that's one. Do you have a um possibly another one you can share? That's just simple that people can do daily.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

Yeah, I mean, um between the the neck stretches, like I mentioned, head and shoulder tilts, um, often our lower backs is a common problem, whether it's from sitting or standing a lot. I have a lot of people that do a lot of standing. Um, you know, some gentle twists, you know, if you're sitting in a chair to the left and right. You know, I discourage people doing too many. If you're if you're standing up, don't do too many toe touches. If you're gonna do it, sit down, because that can actually strain your back more. So it's actually better to do the twists, especially if you can lie down, you know, twisting your legs to the left and right? Um, you can do some hip stretches as well, but the back is probably the the most common problem, stretching to the side, feeling it through um the lower back and sides, really finding that release.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

So, in your opinion, why do you think people unconsciously hold on to patterns and stress and things that's continuing to hurt them?

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Honestly, I feel like for most people it's out of fear and mostly out of fear of change. You know, we're in a pattern where our mind and body expects certain things, you know, we're like we're used to this outcome, we're used to um how this feels. It starts to become normal at some point. And it's not until we have that pattern interrupt where we break it to feel something different and understand where where that feeling is coming from and have that awareness. One thing I work on with my clients is the awareness of how it feels when you're in that habit and you're in that pattern versus when you've broken it. And sometimes you might still feel some discomfort, but there's usually a difference in how they feel. And then once you've you've broken it, what it feels like to go back, your body recognizes well, this felt way better. Yeah. Like, wait, I don't want to go back to that. I need to go to this good feeling, like this how this feeling of release and relief. It might be slow, it might feel uncomfortable, but it feels better than carrying it. And it might take some time to fully relieve that pain, especially like lower back pain. It takes time, but we have to sit in that discomfort for a little while and understand the difference between the feelings and associate more of a positive feeling with that relief over time so that we can actually make a change.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

That's interesting because you just said people are afraid of the change. But at the same and so they're hurting, but at the same time, we're saying they have to sit in the discomfort. So you're gonna you're gonna hurt either way, you're gonna feel uncomfortable either way, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:53

And I wouldn't at least I wouldn't say that you're hurting when you're relieving it, but it it can feel uncomfortable, right? Because it's different than what you're feeling before. Right, right, and your body is used to that that tension, like, wait, this is different, like actually reliefs releasing it, and it will automatically want to tighten up again. But we have to, like I said, sit with it for a little while to feel the full release, to eventually feel relief and healing.

SPEAKER_02 37:32

Okay, I'm glad you clarified that because I was thinking mentally uncomfortable, mentally in pain, but you're talking about even the yoga and the somatic practices and things. And I think even me, I'm not a yogi. I and that's probably why, because of the discomfort and sitting in it long enough to release. Right. I just that makes sense now. I get that. So thank you for clarifying it. So I don't want anybody thinking, you gotta hurt.

SPEAKER_00 38:03

No. No, no, you don't have to hurt, but it does take a little, you know, some of the mental practice a little bit to really understand the difference between it. Because like I was saying earlier, we immediately want to classify it as pain.

SPEAKER_03 38:19

Right.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Right. But is it really pain? How does it feel differently from what you're feeling before?

SPEAKER_02 38:30

So the question is So what would you tell someone that feels like they've tried everything?

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Well I would say it depends on the person, but oftentimes I I do inquire to see what they've tried and how long they've tried it. That is key too.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

Yeah, that that actually is key.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Because a lot of it become, you know, it goes back into not just the fear, but the creating the habit, creating the pattern, you know, being able to sit with whatever this new practice is, whether it's somatics or something completely different, because there's a lot of things out there that work for a lot of different people. But have we actually given that practice enough time to say that our bodies have shifted? Or did we do one practice and say, oh, it hurt, or it was uncomfortable, I can't do that, and never do it again, and then say we tried it, but really didn't have you know, maybe the proper guidance and generate enough awareness or really understand how to release or how we're feeling, you know, and that's one of a lot of the things that I work on, really, that that self-awareness. You know, we can find many different videos and people on social media doing somatic practice, right? But if we don't have the actual guidance on how to apply it and why we're doing certain things, and you know what our triggers are and where I'm carrying the tension, and I'm just following along with some what somebody else is doing just because they said to do it, then I'm not really giving myself a fair chance because I didn't have a full understanding of how to apply it.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

Okay. So tell me about your book. Is this uh an instructional guide or what what does your um book help? How does it help people?

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Yeah, so um I actually now have three books, but uh books one and two. The first one is more of the beginner. This one that you see here is the the mastery level. Um it will walk you through some of the somatic exercises, how to do them, how to incorporate it into your life, walking you through the breath work and helping you create a somatic practice. Um, especially my the first book, I like to um I kind of describe it as like point to the pain. You know, it's not necessarily designed to be read cover to cover, but it's designed to be looked at as what are my symptoms? You know, am I a desk worker? Am I suffering from sciatic pain, back pain? And you just flip through those sections and I give a list of exercises that you can do based on how you're feeling, you know, not just go through, like I said, cover to cover and then never pick it up again, but really use using it as a guide based on how you're feeling. You know, taking the moments to, in the beginning of the book, learn, understand about awareness. And then once you have that awareness, flipping through the sections to help do some of that movement to really relieve it. And then the second book, which is the mastery program, just goes a little bit deeper. I focus more on the breath work and the meditation. Um, I have videos in both of them. So book one has more of the movement um videos, book two has more of the breath work and meditation videos, also some movement as well. But people that are looking to, you know, just go deeper, do some more of the meditative practice, um, and really creating a lifestyle is for book two is for okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:59

So videos actually come with both of the books or just a right, both of them. Yeah, well, that's pretty cool because I wouldn't want to read that I'm supposed to be stretching one way and find out I'm stretching somewhere a different way. I need I'm a visual person, I need to see. So that's cool. That's cool. Um, what is so if you had one thing that you want every listener to understand about their body and their healing journey, what would that be?

SPEAKER_00 43:32

Nobody's path and journey is the same, and we have to listen to our bodies, our minds, and our bodies to really understand exactly what we need. You know, there's not one blueprint to healing. You know, everyone's journey to healing is different because our journey to Feeling broken was different as well. So the journey to health and recovery is gonna look different for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 44:11

So wow, that's cool. So where can people find your books? And I'll make sure all of this is down in the notes and stuff. But if you can just share with us where they can find your books and other things that you offer.

SPEAKER_00 44:23

Yeah, if you visit my website, which is drdanielgriff.com, um, you'll find information about you know my products on my shop, my coaching services, um, retreat information. Uh everything that I do is there, as well as my my social media is all Dr. Daniel Griff as well.

SPEAKER_02 44:48

Okay. You mentioned a retreat. I forgot about that. You have a retreat coming up soon, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 44:54

Yeah, um, that one is sold out at this point, but we will be looking at some new dates. But it's the Rise and Renew retreat. So really focusing on that somatic practice as well as from day one, as soon as you get there, feeling rested and relieved. You know, oftentimes we'll go on vacation and we don't actually feel like we're recovering and have some stress relief until it's almost time to go home, right? Right. Right. Really feeling like we can disconnect and reset as soon as we get there. Like, what does that feel like? What does that work entail? Um, and so that's what we're focusing on this retreat.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Cool. Well, I thank you for talking with us today. Um, you've given a lot of helpful information, even things that I you've given me clear me personally clarity for things that have been going on. And I was like, oh, that makes sense that I never understood. So I appreciate you and your knowledge and the work that you're doing to help women just and people in general just understand their bodies and and heal their bodies.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Yeah, thank you for having me. Happy to share it.

unknown 46:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:17

So with that being said, um, I want to thank everyone for listening to Don't Ask Me Shit, or the truth might be uncomfortable, but if you sit in it, feel but it will set you free if you're willing to do the work. Sorry, that's what it is. So something you heard today hit home, sit in it. And like she was saying today, just allow yourself to feel the feel just the discomfort, a little uncomfortable, so that you can release whatever this is that's bothering you. Um, that's just one way of processing it and decide what you're gonna do next to change. Um, remember, you can ask me anything, but if you're not ready to do the work, don't ask me shit. If you enjoyed this episode, share it with someone who needs real conversation in their life, and I will see you the next time. Bye.