009. LOCKDOWN: 365 Days Later

March 15th, 2020 was the day that I went into lockdown in the state of Pennsylvania here in the U.S. In this episode, I reflect on my experience in quarantine and what has transpired over the past year in regard to collective trauma. I focus heavily on neuropsychologist Dr. Caroline Leaf's research of the mind/body/brain connection and how trauma is stored within the proteins of our brain as a response to our mind's generation of thought, feeling and choice - and how we can use that same gravitational energy of thought, feeling and choice to then change the neuroplasticity of our brain to ultimately heal that trauma. I get real about the affect lockdown had on me psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually, the strain it caused within my relationship to my partner, and how things began to completely shift for me once I started to think, feel and choose differently in response to what was going on around me. Approach this episode with an open mind and an even more open heart. About a half hour into the episode, we start to dive deep into how our collective trauma has been used against us via emotional manipulation to keep us stuck within a fear state - to keep us trapped within a mind pattern of thinking, feeling and choosing fear - and how we have strayed from the responsibility each of us have to our own healing and sovereignty, as intended, by what has incessantly been spoon-fed to us since the initial shock of our trauma experience. Are you willing to think, feel and choose differently? Are you willing to see that - perhaps - this has all been in pursuit of control of your emotional state, thus control of your physical state, rather than of your health & safety? This episode of Moon and Back Podcast simply offers you the invitation to ask questions, to be willing to heal, to come back to your truth, to choose love over fear, to refrain from projecting your trauma response on the collective and to instead learn to lean into the power of your mind to think, feel and choose new thoughts that thereby send new energetic signals to your brain that will literally restructure your DNA from that fear-state to an empowered, loving, enlightened state of awareness & being. I am sending you all so much love, to the moon and back, as we all navigate through this human experience together. Remember, we ARE walking alongside one another in the self-healing journey. We ARE beings of love. We DO have the tools we need to heal our psychological, emotional and spiritual selves... And we DO have the choice to heal our trauma, while simultaneously honoring the truth that the pain is real. Hurt and healing can and do co-exist. I love you. Definitely sick around through the end of this one, when I pull the MOST appropriate oracle card to wrap up this episode and tie the message altogether. And please, if you could, give this podcast a 5-star rating and written review on whichever platform you listen. Don't forget to subscribe to, so new episodes are automatically downloaded as they are released! If WATCHING the podcast is more your thing, you can do that here: https://youtu.be/AniOXxidcN8 PS. Be sure to check out Dr. Caroline Leaf's new book "Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess" - I just ordered mine the day this episode was recorded! Follow me on Instagram, @moonandback.community & @angelamarieucci to connect with me and the Moon and Back Community!