Jaime Hartman (00:05):
Welcome to the AIP Summit Podcast, your go- to resource for taking control of your autoimmune health, presented by AIP Certified Coaches. Hi, I'm Jaime Hartman.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (00:16):
And I'm Marie-Noelle Marquis, and we are here to equip you with the tools and the knowledge and the support you need to effectively use the autoimmune protocol.
Jaime Hartman (00:25):
And today we're exploring how learning to feel safe in your own body might be just as important to your healing as anything on your plate.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (00:39):
So, okay, Jaime, I have to say when I first looked at the title of today's episode, I was a little unsure, I guess, what to expect.
Jaime Hartman (00:48):
I think a lot of listeners are probably feeling the same way. The title is, if you didn't notice it when you clicked onto this episode, is The Somatic Experience in the Automune Protocol, which I know sounds really academic, but what it actually delivers is something very accessible and very relevant to anyone navigating AIP.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (01:11):
This is the audio that we're going to share from a live session that was presented at the annual AIP Summit in 2025. And if you're a member of the AIP Summit community, you can find the full experience that includes the slides and the Q&A that follows in our archives. And until the end of May, actually, this particular session recording will be available for both free and paid members along with other featured resources.
Jaime Hartman (01:36):
Yes. And I will be sure, as always, to put a link in the show notes for anyone who wants to learn more about the membership. Now, let's give the listeners a preview of what they are about to hear. The speaker is Alison Whitwood, and she is a board certified health and wellness coach. Of course, she's also an AIP Certified Coach. And she's an embodied processing practitioner based in Sydney, Australia. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis nearly 30 years ago, and her own healing journey led her deep into the connection between emotional health and physical recovery.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (02:14):
In this session, she introduces something called the somatic experience, specifically how tuning into your body's felt sense and learning to create what she calls a safety resource can really help regulate your nervous system and actually support the healing process.
Jaime Hartman (02:31):
It's practical, it's grounding. And honestly, this is the kind of content that makes you want to just stop and breathe for a moment. So without any further ado, here's Alison Whitwood, recorded live at the Sixth Annual AIP Summit.
Alison Whitwood (02:51):
Great. Thank you, Jaime. Hey, everyone. So good to be here. Really good to be here. So my name's Alison. I'm Alison Whitwood. I am speaking to you today from Sydney, Australia. It is a Tuesday morning. Meant to be summer, but it's quite muggy and quite sticky today. And I just want to say this. In Australia, this accent that I'm speaking with, I've had for a long, long time. I'm from the Northeast of England, so hopefully that doesn't confuse anyone. So today I'm just going to share my screen. So we've got some slides. Let me get that sorted. Very proud to be here at the Sixth Annual Summit for AIP. So we're talking today about the full title. It's a bit of a mouthful, but the title is The Somatic Experience in the Autoimmune Protocol. And that'll help us unlock deep relaxation and sensory acuity. For a healthy ... I said healthy gut.
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It's a healthier everything, and particularly in the autoimmune world, our healthy gut is very important. So that's me. I am a board certified health mothers coach, which I'm very proud of. Also proud to be an AIP Certified Coach and an embodied processing practitioner. Now, I'd need to really stress this slide because the content is for educational purposes, only informational purposes, and it's not intended to be a substitute for any medical advice or diagnosis or treatment. So always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. It's very important. Now, why am I going to talk about this? Well, yeah, my healing journey, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It's almost 30 years ago now, back in 96, and I was just turning 30. It was my kind of 30th birthday present.
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And I'm so grateful because I've not had any symptoms at all for many, many years now. And the whole diet thing was very foundational. I kind of did AIP before it was even called AIP. This is way back. So the diet piece was really foundational, but also very important was I had to really face and deal with a lot of emotional health. I had a whole world of stress and resentment and just kind of unresolved emotional stuff that really was getting in the way of my healing. And it wasn't until I started to address that piece that I really started to heal. So those two things went really well together.
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And yeah, I became kind of fascinated actually about how people heal and how we heal physically and how we heal emotionally. So I've delved into all sorts of interesting kind of rabbit holes. I've changed career, so now I'm board certified health and wellness coach. And I work in both spaces. I work with the physical health and also on the emotional level as well. So I don't know I've got this little metaphor, if you like, of rowing a boat with two o's when you're doing your rowing boat, if one o' was the physical health and the other o is emotional health. You've really got to row your boat with both ours. If you just work on the physical and you can be eating the most perfect, organic food, all home cooked, you can be doing that, but still, maybe for example, still hating your mother.
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For example, I know I had a lot of resentments in that area. If you know you can be eating the best food, but you've got all these kind of anger, resentments and just unresolved stuff, you're going to go around in circles. And the same if you're running the other ore and you know you've got this blissed out spiritual life, but you're eating fast food and you're not really eating nutrient dense foods and you're missing out on a lot of nutrients, you know you're just rowing your boat with one O again and you're going around in the other circle. So got to do both. That's my little philosophy on healing is rowing your boat with both, with both ours.
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Hope that resonates. So today, today's intention, we're going to be exploring some, just some pieces from a modality called embodied processing, which is a powerful somatic approach. It's what's often called a bottom up approach to kind of emotional work. So we're looking at the body and we're working from the body up rather than the top down thinking, talking, talk therapy approach. So we're going to be pulling out some of those key concepts in this presentation. And in a nutshell, really, if I could just summarize what we're going to look at is we're going to look at what we mean by the felt sense and tuning into the emotions and sensations in the body and allowing things to be just felt as they are without that. The mind has a bit of a running commentary usually. We might feel something and then your mind kicks in and has an opinion or a thought or it goes down a bit of a rabbit hole of past memories and future worries.
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Whereas the felt sense is just simply purely those emotions and the sensations in the body and just allowing them to be felt without any judgment or resistance.
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So we're going to look at that. We'll do some kind of little exercises on that. And then we'll look at how the nervous system and stress responses affect things. And we're going to talk about holding space. So when we've got the concept of a felt sense, we're going to feel some stuff and that those feeling sensations are going to be held in a loving, compassionate, safe container where anything is welcome, all emotions, all sensations, everything is welcome to be exactly as it is. And when we do that, it signals to the nervous system that it's safe and it's okay to relax. And when we relax, we can move into that rest and digest phase of the nervous system. The nervous system says, "Oh, it's okay. Nothing to do here. It's all good. I can relax and we can start healing." So that's the basic idea I want to talk about today.
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And then why is that relevant to the autoimmune protocol? Well, when we're reintroducing foods or we're noticing sensations in the body or we're just trying to manage our stress, being able to have just a very pure somatic experience without all of the mind narrative really helps to just manage stress. It builds emotional resilience and it makes it so much easier to approach all us food in reintroductions from curiosity and from an objective place without all the stresses and mind narratives that all of our minds do. I don't think I'm alone in that one. I think all of our minds do a lot of chatter. So hopefully, hopefully you're glad to be here and that's what we're going to talk about.
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So just delving a bit more into this, what the felt sense is, what do we mean by the somatic experience? Basically soma, the somatic word, coming from soma, meaning body, but it's kind of buddy, but it's the whole experience, sensations, felt sense of what's going on in the body. And when I say felt sense, that is the awareness of emotions and sensations that's going on without any judgment and without any of that mental kind of narrative that's going on or mental processing. And it really helps to reconnect with our body's own natural wisdom. And it's kind of simple, not always easy because our culture in general, we like to fix and we like to do. So stopping and just being and allowing can feel a little bit uncomfortable, unfamiliar because it's not something that we often do. Our culture tends to encourage us to keep on doing and fixing.
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If there's a bad feeling, you want to fix it or make it go away. And what embody processing really teaches is allowing, being with the felt sense, welcoming that into a safe container, if you like, and allowing. And it's in that allowing that relaxation can happen and the body softens and the body goes, "You know what? I can do some healing now." So let's do that. I wish I could see you. I really can't ... I am imagining you're all there and I invite you, if you'd like, to just do a little exercise with me and we'll tune in, we'll connect to our own felt sense.
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So if it's safe to do so, you're not driving or anything, so I invite you to close your eyes and just get comfortable and just sit, close your eyes and start to tune in. Just start to tune into the experience of being alive. And we can just gently let go of the swirl of the day. There's been some presentations on already today. It's already for some of you the afternoon. For me, it's the morning. There might be a whole world of things going on outside, and I just invite you to gently let them go for now. Come back in to yourself, closing your eyes, and start to bring awareness to your breath, to your breath coming into the body and noticing what parts of your body has to move to allow that breath in. Does your belly move? Does your chest move? And as you're letting the breath out, just notice with real curiosity and interest what's happening in your body.
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So just focusing on the breath. It's actually the easiest way to get into the body is via the breath.
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And you can imagine that the breath is breathing. All we're doing is breathing, but we're breathing with interest and curiosity as if this breath is the most interesting thing and the most important thing you can do right now. Just tuning in to what's going on inside and notice if there's any sensations, any tingling, any tightness, any warmth, maybe just noticing. I'm not trying to change anything or fix anything. And that, in essence, is the felt sense. It's just feeling the sensations, being aware of what's present. So very gently just start to move your fingers, move your toes, start to maybe come back to the sounds in the room and open your eyes, come back, and just take a notice now to notice how you feel now if you did that little exercise, how you feel now compared to before. Is there any difference? I know for me, I feel just taking that time to just breathe and get present to myself, I'm feeling more grounded, calmer, because this is live.
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I'm doing a live presentation, so I'm a bit nervous and I'm just aware of that. And I'm not too concerned about that. I think that's quite natural because I want it to go well and I want you guys to get some value out of this. But I noticed that just doing that breathing, I am feeling a lot more grounded. And even though I can't see you, I'm feeling a lot more connected to the people, you're listening here and you'll be listening on replay on the recording.
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So that in a nutshell is the felt sense, and that's basically a somatic experience. So let's now have a really brief look at the nervous system. So our nervous system is always working to keep us safe, keep us alive. It responds to stress or a threat by activating fight, flight, freeze, phone. Those are the four kind of basic stress responses, and they happen in the blink of an eye. They'll happen almost instinctively even before your conscious mind as even noticed that there's a threat. It's like your body, your nervous system is kicking off and responding brilliantly. It's what you need. It's good that we've got that so that we can be safe and kept alive. It's really meant for life-threatening stress, not so much the stress that we have day-to-day in our normal lives here, but that life-threatening stress, like there's a tiger about to attack us.
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Yeah. So I don't know if you recognize yourself in any of these four responses. I've definitely known in my time to come out fighting various situations. Not as much these days, but I tell you what, when I was a teenager, my goodness, I would respond with fight. Flight is another one which could be avoiding, running away, escaping. I sometimes do that. Even preparing for this talk, there was times when I just avoided it. I've been preparing for this for several weeks since I've known I was going to be presenting here. And there's times when I've just kind of avoided this, which is like a flight response. It's no, run away. Don't want to deal with it right now.
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And freezes when you're just kind of frozen, immobilized, when overwhelmed. I have a tendency to do that as well sometimes. And then falling is when there's a threat, but you kind of roll over backwards to try and appease people or you say yes when you really mean no, general people pleasing. Yeah, that's not my favorite. My favorites are fight and probably freeze, to be honest. But what about you? Where do you see yourself in those stress responses? Now, in theory and in an ideal world, when we have a stress, when the stress has gone, you come back to this idea of homeostasis, this idea of balance, and it's like the duck kind of shaking off or Taylor Swift, shaking off the stress. It's like just shake it off. It's like when the stress is gone, shake off the stress and you're back to baseline, homeostasis, balance, whatever you want to call that.
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And that's in an ideal world, what should happen. We have a stress and we come back to baseline. But we often get chronic stress where you don't get that balance back. You don't come back to that homeostasis. We don't shake off the stress. So then you get prolonged stress and that disrupts digestion, immune system function, inflammation. So all the things that we don't want with our autoimmune conditions.
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And that chronic stress kind of prevents that or inhibits, I should say, that body's natural tendency towards healing. It'll heal if it can. So sommatic practices are really good at deliberately actively bringing us back to safety and signaling safety to the nervous system to support healing. There are quite a few barriers to, I'll call it safety. There's a few different words you could use. I like to use the term safety, but we could use other words. There's some barriers to that. Coming back to that homeostasis, balance safety, living in a stressful environment where you don't ever get chance to switch off. And then there's this societal conditioning that emphasizes productivity over rest. It's often frowned upon to just stop and rest. We should be doing something. And also with autoimmune, we've already got this kind of, I don't know, medical description, if you like, of a body that's attacking itself.
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And it might be easy to make that mean that your body's unsafe.
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Yeah. It's hard to feel safe in a body that you believe is attacking. You're attacking yourself. You might not be supported, you want to be following the implementing the autoimmune protocol, but you're not being supported by your friend and your family, your loved ones. There's bread and cheese in the house, and it can be quite stressful. So there's a lot of barriers, natural barriers to that sense of safety. And I've got one client, if I get a chance, I'll talk about it when we get to the case studies section, who had never had a sense of safety. So when she actually found it and experienced it, it was an absolute eye opener. It was such an unfamiliar sensation, unfamiliar feeling of being safe.
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So as I say, there's different words for safety. Other words might be, like we've said, homeostasis, coming back to that baseline after the stress, come back. Balance, being grounded, having a sense of at ease or deep peace. You might call it peace, profound peace, being connected. And safety can be as simple as just a single calming breath, a moment of stillness, and those micro experiences of just, right now I'm giving a presentation. I have no idea how it's going. Hope it's going well. I'm present. It's okay. I'm safe. And that builds a sense of resilience.
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Now I want to talk about this concept of holding space. So we've talked about the felt sense. We've talked about just being with whatever experiences, sensations, emotions are arising and allowing them. Let's just delve in more into what this holding space means. It's as if those sensations have a safe place to come and be held. So holding space is creating a compassionate, non-judgmental environment for emotions and sensations to arise. When we hold space for ourselves and just allow whatever we're feeling to exist without needing to fix it, change it, avoid it, it signals to the nervous system that it's safe and it's okay, and this nervous system can stand down. We don't need to fight, run away, freeze, or fall, play dead.
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So when I'm working as a coach, I hold space for my client, and I've also personally got a sense that I am being held by my concept of a higher power, whatever that means to you. I'm being held while I'm holding my client, and I'm teaching my client to hold space for themselves to welcome in whatever emotions, sensations, whatever that is arising. So it's a bit like a series of Russian dolls where I'm being held to hold the client, to hold themselves and to hold all those parts of themselves that might be feeling a bit stressed. So it's a really nice little kind of concept of holding space.
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It's also another way of looking at this is if any of you are parents, you might recognize this as that loving space when your gorgeous little child runs up to you and he or she is kind of crying as the fallen over and they're just kind of upset and then you hold them without trying to fix anything, you just hold and hold the space. And that's kind of pretty much what we're doing. And even if you didn't experience that in real life, when you were a child, you growing up, you might've been growing up in a stressful environment where your parents didn't quite understand this concept of holding space and being with emotions, that's okay because we can do that to ourselves now. And having that, what's called a resource of safety is such a powerful, a powerful thing to be able to give to ourselves.
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Now, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to go back a slide. Jaime, if you are there, I actually would very much like to invite my friend Karlee into this space because I want to do a little demo of what that looks like to create a safety space within ourselves.
Jaime Hartman (28:00):
Okay. Who are we looking for? What's her name?
Alison Whitwood (28:03):
Karlee, K-A-R-L-E-E. Okay. Karlee.
Jaime Hartman (28:07):
There we go. I see her. I was looking on the seas. All right. I'm going to-
Alison Whitwood (28:14):
Thank you. ...
Jaime Hartman (28:14):
Invite her to become on camera with you.
Alison Whitwood (28:17):
Great. Thank you, Karlee. Thanks, Jaime. Hi, there you are.
Jaime Hartman (28:29):
Hi.
Alison Whitwood (28:30):
Welcome. Now we know each other, so I just want to let the audience know that we've done this a few times, and this is a really important part of the work that we both do in embodied processing of creating and helping the client create a safety resource. And there's a few ways of doing this, and I just want to invite Karlee to work with me and creating that safe space inside. So can I start by asking you just to tune into your felt sense now and just tell me how you're feeling at this moment?
Karlee (29:12):
I'm just going to adjust myself in the chair and get nice and comfort. Yeah. I'm feeling good. Like you said before, I said maybe a little bit nervous being online in front of unfamiliar people, but now I feel pretty good. Yeah, chest is feeling us a little bit tight for whatever reason. We don't always know why, but probably racing around after kids in the morning. But no, feeling overall pretty good, a little bit tight in the chest, but otherwise good.
Alison Whitwood (29:43):
Got you. And if I ask you how safe you feel, and if I ask you to tune into this concept of safety in your body, is there a place in your body that feels that you can really Identify as feeling safe.
Karlee (30:04):
Yeah, I think when I give myself that freedom just to listen into my body and tune in, listen to my breath, as we're talking about the importance of listening to the breath before, I think for me, finding safety can even just be imagining a place that I've been to that feels really safe. So a really great resource for me is imagining a scene from when I was a child on my grandparents' farm playing with their Border Collie puppy. So that brings me to a really beautiful place of calm and safety.
Alison Whitwood (30:38):
And when you go there, if you don't mind going then, so that's a memory of a place where you felt really safe, felt loved, felt sported. What does that feel like in your body as a felt sense, as an experience in your body? Yeah,
Karlee (30:53):
I'll go there because I can go there pretty quickly when I imagine it and imagine it in my mind's eye. It feels really warm and open and fun. I've got all my cousins and my sisters there with me and my grandparents and all the puppies. So yeah, it feels really warm and fun and free and safe.
Alison Whitwood (31:19):
Yes. And just noticing that felt sense in your body, do you notice any difference in your body now now that you're connecting with that safe
Karlee (31:29):
Place? Yeah, I've just got my hand on my chest to welcome in that warm feeling, but it definitely feels a lot more open in my chest. I can feel my shoulders dropping and relaxing and just feel a lot more open. And I guess expansive would probably be a word that comes to mind. Yeah.
Alison Whitwood (31:53):
Expansive. Yeah. And do you notice if there's any tightness? You said earlier that your chest was feeling a little tight. Yeah. Do you see an awareness of that?
Karlee (32:05):
I can still feel it slightly. I think it's just from running around with the kids earlier. So I think the longer ... Yeah, I can feel it already, my nervous system starting to downregulate and calm. So I'm sitting and relaxing now, not needing to run around and I'm just sitting. So I can feel that calming and dropping, that energy calming down as well.
Alison Whitwood (32:33):
Got you. Got you. And what we often do is once you connect into that, because I can sense it in your ... You look, I mean, I can only see teen little picture of you, but you do look more relaxed. And I know you said you feel more expansive and open. And then what we often do is anchor that in. So sometimes it might be giving yourself a hug to feel
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that in the body, anchor in your body. Sometimes we might just hold the wrist so that later in the day you might, again, hold your wrist and remember that lovely feeling of being safe. Nice. Yeah. Thank you. Karlee, that's great. I'm going to leave it there. We've brought you into that lovely feeling of safety. Now, if we were going to work together, we might then invite in some emotions or some triggers or whatever. But for the purposes of this talk, I just want to really emphasize that finding that safety, it's something you can do anytime. You can hug yourself and remind yourself that you do have that resource within you, that you can come to safety almost at will, regardless of what's going on outside. Yeah, that's great. Thank you. Thank you, Karlee. Thank you. Say goodbye. Thank
Karlee (34:02):
You so much. Thanks so much, Alison. Bye.
Alison Whitwood (34:08):
That's great. Oh my goodness. I'm very aware that there's a lorry outside my apartment here in Sydney cleaning up the street, so I'm hoping that doesn't come through on the sound. So we've looked at holding space, and what we just did there was guiding Karlee into finding that safe space within herself. And that's really about holding space for your own emotions and being present with your own emotions without that judging, fixing mind. And as I said, that signals to the nervous system that it's safe. So I invite you now, if you like to, just gently put your hand on your chest or your belly and just take a moment to feel into that place of safety, taking a deep breath and just knowing it's okay.
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And this is important because by deeply relaxing, it signals to the body that it's safe to relax. And if it's safe to relax, we can start the healing kind of processes. We're not on kind of high alert. Supports digestion, immune health, energy, restoration. So it's a very powerful, simple, but not always easy. Now, how does that apply to implementing the autoimmune protocol? We know that stress is, or managing stress rather, is important for managing autoimmune conditions, but also being practiced in this felt sense, the somatic experience, it helps us notice all those subtle changes. So when you have a food reintroduction, you can notice without that judgment, just without the narrative, and it creates this or develops this sense of curiosity and confidence. So by tapping into the somatic experience, tapping into the body, creating a sense of safety, we're building resilience, we're managing symptom flareups, managing stress, and really promoting that long-term healing.
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And I just want to say there has just been a garbage truck going through my street, and I really hope that didn't come through on the audio. So I'm just noticing the felt sense in my chest of, oh, I'm just calming down.
Jaime Hartman (37:30):
It's all good, Alison. I don't think we can
Alison Whitwood (37:32):
Even
Jaime Hartman (37:32):
Hear it.
Alison Whitwood (37:33):
Oh my goodness, Jaime. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's hard to know. Thank you. Couple of case studies. Yeah, a couple of case studies I want to highlight. Yeah, this beautiful client, Mika, she came to me because she'd been to lots of doctors. She's got IBS, which I know is not particularly autoimmune, but one of those gut issues, she went to several doctors all saying, "Look, there's actually nothing physiologically particularly wrong here, but you do carry a lot of tension." So we did a session, we did this embody processing, connecting to the felt sense, finding a safe place. And all it was was holding space for the emotions. And I remember her saying, "Oh, so are you saying it's okay to feel sad?" Yeah, Mika, it is. She's been holding a lead on a lot of her emotions for a long, long time and just having the space.
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And it doesn't have to be working with a therapist to do that. We can do that for ourselves just
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And giving ourselves ... Took me to a place of deep awareness and openness where we were able to track and release blockers that had been holding me back for so many years. It made such a difference in such a short time, and that was just by being with holding space for whatever emotions came up. I got surprised by it every time. It's so powerful. And I want to talk about Nadine. She's a dear friend. Well, actually, she's the sister of a dear friend. She's in England. She's got MS, lower thyroid, type two diabetes. She's been tired, fatigued for a long time, absolutely stressed. And just by working together, this was bizarre. By working together, she actually found nothing to do with health in particular, but she found the freedom to decide she wanted to buy a house. And then she went to view a house that she was considering buying, and it was a weird thing.
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She went into this house first time ever, and she said she got this profound, profound sense of, "Oh, I'm home." She said it was palpable. She just felt so at home, even though her head, her logical self was saying, "You know what? This house isn't right. She's got animals. It wasn't suitable for the animals." So she wasn't going to pursue that house, but the sense of being home was very, very strong. When we talked it through, I said, "That sense of being home, and let's describe it. Tell me what it felt like in the body." And I said, "Have you ever felt that before?" Especially when you were growing up as a little one in your home life with your family. No. She said she'd never, never felt that sense of safety. It was new. And it was so powerful to tap into that sense of safety and having it inside.
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It wasn't the house. It was nothing to do with the bricks of that house. It was the sense of safety inside, and it really has made a difference to her.
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It's literally brought her home to herself and she feels safe. That's probably the easiest way to describe it. So yeah, this work is incredibly powerful. And let's say look at the time, 22 the hour, we're doing good. So let's just recap. Yeah, let's have a recap. What we've talked about, if I can just summarize this, is embracing the felt sense, which is experiencing the emotions, sensations. When you've got autoimmune, there's a whole world of weird bodily sensations. When you're reintroducing food and monitoring, you have to be very acutely aware of what's going on. And the felt sense is doing all of that without judgment, just noticing objectively and then holding space is allowing what's there to be there. And that signals to the nervous system that it's okay, it's safe. And with that sense of safety, it allows the body to relax, restore, and engage in its own natural healing abilities.
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The body will heal if it can, this is my belief, that if you get things out of the way, it'll do the best it can to heal. And that all fits in perfectly with the autoimmune protocol because then we can come to that with a sense of curiosity, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection to ourselves so we feel safe in our own being. So that's in a nutshell what I wanted to share with you today. If you want to explore more what that looks like, I have a website that's on the screen, innergoldhealthcoaching.com.au, AU4Australia. You can connect with me on there. You can connect, you can just have a chat.
Jaime Hartman (43:37):
That was Alison Whitwood, live at the annual AIP Summit in 2025. And if one thing stays with you from this session, let it be her idea of the micro moment. That idea that safety isn't something you have to carve out an hour for. It could be just a breath before you walk through the door, a hand on your chest, or just a memory that brings you back to yourself.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (44:06):
Yes. And if today's session resonated with you and you'd like to go deeper, members of the AIP Summit community have access to, again, the full experience, which include the Q&A, and that's in our archives. You can learn how to become a member at aipsummit.com.
Jaime Hartman (44:22):
And if you'd like to explore working with Alison directly, find her profile in the AIP Certified Coach Directory, which we will link to in the show notes.
Marie-Noelle Marquis (44:32):
And again, we remind you that AIP is more than a diet. It is a protocol with multiple branches and there are multiple ways to approach it. Through this podcast, AIP Certified Coaches aim to bring you resources so that you can feel confident about doing AIP on your own, but with the knowledge that you are not doing it alone.
Jaime Hartman (44:50):
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Marie-Noelle Marquis (45:00):
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Jaime Hartman (45:16):
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