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The Resilience Zone Helps You Exit
The Matrix of External Control
The Matrix of External Control
of your mind, your body, your creativity, your emotions and, ultimately, your soul
THE PROBLEM
Physical Pain is a Symptom of Deep Emotional, Physical or Spiritual Trauma. Conventional medicine, however, tries to separate them as if they were not all part of the same causative pattern.
You're tense and stressed. Your body hurts...Where do you go for that?
This is the road back. Enter The Resilience Zone.
Move freely BEYOND pain, trauma & grief to the life that still awaits you. It's time to come to your senses! Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) gives you a clear path!
Register for In-Person ATM Class This is the road back. Enter The Resilience Zone.
Move freely BEYOND pain, trauma & grief to the life that still awaits you. It's time to come to your senses! Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) gives you a clear path!
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The more chaotic things get, the more your muscles tighten.
Your body hurts and you feel trapped.
Give your body the power to access its innate capacity to heal.
No drugs. No painful conversations. No patronizing.
Mobility at Any Age
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Wake up and move with Awareness to give your nervous system a chance to reset the resting length of muscles, effectively eliminating the cause of nerve and joint pain. When you get the guidance to understand HOW your body works, you get to practice the best healthcare: self-care.
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Conscious Contact in Any Circumstance
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Nurture Inner Awakening. Resolve Outer Trauma. If you know you are not getting enough rest, the first, most important step is to experience the kind of restorative rest you may have not had for years...And while you are getting that Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) transmute pain into wisdom.
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You want support that works and works fast by integrating new ways of moving through pain, seeing reality from a higher love and reconnecting with Source. When you finally decide you've had enough pain, you become willing to immerse yourself in healing. You must relinquish the identity of loss. To fully enter the Resilience Zone, get access to all three pillars of the Trauma Release MethodTM
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2026 - another year of unprecedented change.
Exhausted, overwhelmed, you can't find relief.
You can't sleep, you can't rest properly.
Neither the industrial medical complex,
nor the insurance system has your back.
Why doesn't the system want you to relax?
You have to do this yourself.
Your intention to heal determines what's possible.
90% of the people out there are 80% more tense than they realize.
...take advantage of what your body is trying to tell you.
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement®
gentle, exploratory neuromuscular education teaches you how...
A Shift in Perception
You Can't Release Pain, Suffering & Trauma
From A Mental & Physical State of Stress...
Only From A State Change:
One That Allows A New Perception
From A Mental & Physical State of Stress...
Only From A State Change:
One That Allows A New Perception
- Focus on What Works Every Day
- > Clear Space for A New Response
- >> Change Your Identity
- >>> Break the Habit of Being Yourself
What Makes This Different?
With conventional solutions for serious pain, there is a focus on pain, not on feeling better. Therapy or drugs and are supposed to make you feel better AFTERWARDS. They make some future moment the goal.But with the Trauma Release MethodTM >>> the process itself relaxes, rejuvenates and allows your curiosity for life to be rekindled, and your vitality to be restored.
Many therapies require desensitization training, talking for years about what's painful. Or, they expect you to take drugs with side effects that are completely unacceptable. Your quality of life should not be collateral damage in a "war" against a part of you that simply needs to heal. The era of the cover-up is over. It's time to learn how to flow with what IS in a way that allows it to move through you, so you can clear the problem.
Few people have any idea how to create the environment for your psyche to heal itself. In the same way that your body knows how to heal a cut, your nervous system knows how to heal muscle injuries, your psyche knows how to heal emotional pain. Your spirit knows how to heal that ache in your heart. All that history of pain means you have come to associate your body with pain. But if you know how to channel your somatic awareness, you can reclaim that feeling you once knew as a child: that the body can be a source of enjoyment.
The problem seems intangible. Let's make it concrete, so that you can address it with daily actions that allow you to restore your sense of power, confidence and sovereignty. It's a matter of identity. The longer you have been living in a state of profound grief or emotional loss, the more deeply you have ingrained negative expectations into your neurology. You cannot live into a new, more hopeful future if you identity with sadness, pain and loss. To change the neurological underpinnings of this downward spiral, you need to surround yourself with stimulus that makes it safe for your nervous system to unwind the tendrils of tension, stress. hormones and mental agitation.
2026 - will be another year of unprecedented change. The more you are grounded in who you are, the easier it will be. Take some time to become rock solid in your sense of self.
This is a workbook specifically for beginning to unpack the broken identity inside: the 6 core wounds. You won't have all of them, but you may have more than one. Implanted by childhood experiences that you processed from the point of view of a child. Even something unintentional, like having your mother tell you to be quiet because she was dealing with a crisis that made you feel unsafe, unheard, unvalued. We all have these recordings that run us. We all have the capacity to erase them!
Journaling allows you to re-wrigte the narrative inside that drives self-image.
How you see yourself, how you think of yourself, determines what you believe is possible.
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This is a workbook specifically for beginning to unpack the broken identity inside: the 6 core wounds. You won't have all of them, but you may have more than one. Implanted by childhood experiences that you processed from the point of view of a child. Even something unintentional, like having your mother tell you to be quiet because she was dealing with a crisis that made you feel unsafe, unheard, unvalued. We all have these recordings that run us. We all have the capacity to erase them!
Journaling allows you to re-wrigte the narrative inside that drives self-image.
How you see yourself, how you think of yourself, determines what you believe is possible.
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You are either living out love or fear.
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Make space in your life for vitality.
Make space for your intellect to flourish.
Make space for your mind to regain serenity.
Make space for your body to heal.
Make space for your heart to reawaken.
Make space for your soul to speak.
Make space to tune into a vaster consciousness.
Make space for spontaneous downloads from Source.
Make space for your creative juices to flow.
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You are either living out love or fear.
Chose to live in receptive mode.
Make space in your life for vitality.
Make space for your intellect to flourish.
Make space for your mind to regain serenity.
Make space for your body to heal.
Make space for your heart to reawaken.
Make space for your soul to speak.
Make space to tune into a vaster consciousness.
Make space for spontaneous downloads from Source.
Make space for your creative juices to flow.
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Gabrielle Pullen, MFA, GCFP, LMT
-> Been There, Done That...Found A Better Way!
-> Been There, Done That...Found A Better Way!
In this season of my life, I have come up with a clear systematic pathway that you can easily learn for yourself, to free yourself from the ravages of loss and replace it with internally sourced inspiration, creativity & comfort. All this is wrapped up inside the promise I make to you to show you the way back to your own innate resilience and joy.
Since childhood, when we moved all the time and my brothers and I lived with alcohol induced chaos, I instinctively used the disruptions of trauma to initiate new beginnings. Throughout my career, I have had my hands on thousands of people as a massage therapist for 25 years, feeling how trauma affects the tissues of the body. I turned to somatic practices quickly, once I realized that I needed to heal and decompress my own issues if I was to be of any use in helping others. I have curated what works the best. Ironically, the motivating factor is that I know it works, and that in helping others, I find huge satisfaction. I am driven, not just because I knew there had to be a better, faster, less painful way to heal. I am driven because I believe life is a gift. We were not put here to suffer. And in connecting with others who share the experience of trauma, I am also continuously made whole again and again.
Since childhood, when we moved all the time and my brothers and I lived with alcohol induced chaos, I instinctively used the disruptions of trauma to initiate new beginnings. Throughout my career, I have had my hands on thousands of people as a massage therapist for 25 years, feeling how trauma affects the tissues of the body. I turned to somatic practices quickly, once I realized that I needed to heal and decompress my own issues if I was to be of any use in helping others. I have curated what works the best. Ironically, the motivating factor is that I know it works, and that in helping others, I find huge satisfaction. I am driven, not just because I knew there had to be a better, faster, less painful way to heal. I am driven because I believe life is a gift. We were not put here to suffer. And in connecting with others who share the experience of trauma, I am also continuously made whole again and again.
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Address How the Body Keeps the Score
Trauma is not a life sentence of suffering. Transcend the past, regain a sense of self that is empowered.
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you do not have to suffer - if you can find the willingness - you can heal
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Private 60-minute in-person John F Barnes Approach® Myofascial Release session with Gabrielle Pullen at Your Life Matters.
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Private 60-minute in-person John F Barnes Approach® Myofascial Release session with Gabrielle Pullen at Your Life Matters.
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- John F Barne's Approach® Myofascial Release (In-Person) Jacksonville, OR
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Private 60-minute in-person Feldenkrais Method® Functional Integration® session with Gabrielle Pullen at Your Life Matters.
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Private 60-minute in-person Feldenkrais Method® Functional Integration® session with Gabrielle Pullen at Your Life Matters.
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- Feldenkrais® Functional Integration® (In-Person) Jacksonville, OR
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Private 60-minute Zoom session with Gabrielle Pullen, customized Yoga Nidra meditation to clear emotionally charged trauma and support deep rest and healing.
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Private 60-minute Zoom session with Gabrielle Pullen, customized Yoga Nidra meditation to clear emotionally charged trauma and support deep rest and healing.
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- Custom Yoga Nidra Meditation (Online)
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Private 60-minute Zoom session with Gabrielle Pullen using The Dyad process to relieve emotional distress and clear stagnant energy.
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Private 60-minute Zoom session with Gabrielle Pullen using The Dyad process to relieve emotional distress and clear stagnant energy.
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- One-on-One Dyad: Make Peace with Emotions (Online)
FAQ
What does it involve, this renewal of resilience?
The great news is that there's more than one way to make this transition. It imay nvolve lying down to practice relaxing. It might involve lying down to do mindful movement that allows for a much calmer, more grounded sense of self with less tension. It always involves reconnecting with your body's wisdom, your mind's capacity for critical thinking and your spirit's ability to heal the hurts that time will not, and cannot heal, without clearing space for a new mindset.
The basis for improvement is retraining your brain to regain the state of calm and freedom from tension you knew as a child.
As you reconnect with that natural state of wellbeing, you begin to feel more and more comfortable in your own skin. The transformation is nothing less than a somatic shift in identity characterized by feeling present, happy, inspired...
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How does trauma affect the muscles?It's obvious that trauma causes tension. It causes hyper-vigilance that leads to exhaustion. But you already knew that! What is not so obvious is that it the tension, if allowed to grow at a low level for years, causes density. Healthy muscles are springy and elastic. Tight muscles become more and more hard over time, until they are so dense that it's like trying to soften rock. - How do you prevent the kind of tension that is irreversible?What most people don't understand is that the issue IS progressive and that it gets worse over time. The longer you wait to do something, the longer it takes to get results. It's a bit like doing the dishes or the laundry: you have to do a little bit each day or each week at a minimum, to experience the kind of ease and freedom of motion in your body that you expected as a child.
- How can I get rid of tension in a way that holds?The problem with assuming somebody can fix you, or some drug can fix you, is that it may help temporarily, but it's meant to be a jumpstart that gets you to a better-feeling-place that you need to expand on if you want to feel better for good. Your nervous system controls the resting length of your muscles. If you do things to relax on a regular basis, your nervous system with reset that resting length and you will feel the wonderful sensation of having more spaciousness to move in your own body.
- Why does nobody talk about this in conventional medicine?Professionals in physical therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, surgery, massage, myofascial release, feldenkrais, neuromuscular therapy, alexander technique and fitness trainers all focus on different solutions without having the same basis of understanding of how the body works. They don't communicate, because they each use a different vocabulary for similar terms, or they use the same terms to mean different things. This is a disaster for the consumer, who is left asking the primary care doctor what to do, but they know even less about the muscular system and it's interactions with trauma and how the nervous system both responds and could regulate the response if given the right environment.
- What is it that doctors and other professionals in musculoskeletal health are missing?They pay lip-service to the fact that the nervous system controls the muscles and the response to trauma, but they don't know what to do with that information. They don't know how to set up the right conditions for the nervous system to reset itself. They won't tell you what to do, because they don't realize that you are better equipped to help yourself than they are. Why? Because it involves refining the ability you already have: the ability to sense what hurts, where and when. It's never just, "Does it hurt, or not?" Your body is like a child or a hurt animal: it speaks, but not in words. Only you can "hear" it. And the difference between "good pain" and "bad pain" is something only you can learn to discern. It comes naturally to athletes and may not always be a conscious process. Here, we break it down, so you can respond more quickly each time. That way, you can nip major hurts in the bud, BEFORE they turn into a major medical bill or a chronic issue that is much harder to resolve than at its inception.
- What are they missing in conventional medicine in terms of how to cope trauma?The research on trauma is fairly new and has not filtered into the mainstream, yet. Trauma causes a dysregulation of the nervous system. Dysregulation is a term used by trauma-informed specialists who understand how your nervous system automatically takes over when stressed and how to regulate that response. Talking about it won't change that. Trauma happens faster than thought. It's pre-verbal. Therefore, a somatic solution is the obvious way to go because it addresses the nervous system, which is the master control center that jumps in when any response is demanded, be it emotional, physical or heart-based.
What People Are Saying
A Transformative Process That's Easy to Learn
"I feel so grounded!"
This is the most comment I get most often when people work with me. It's usually accompanied by a certain calm that is a result of the process. I'm just the messenger. You embody the work when you do it and the benefits
are a sense of spaciousness and new access to ease and creativity.
"I feel so grounded!"
This is the most comment I get most often when people work with me. It's usually accompanied by a certain calm that is a result of the process. I'm just the messenger. You embody the work when you do it and the benefits
are a sense of spaciousness and new access to ease and creativity.
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Gabrielle is incredibly knowledgeable. She is helping me through my grief process. By becoming aware of how my thoughts and emotions are affecting my body, I am much more mindful of moving in healthy, safe ways.
Cheryl Colwell -
I've been telling everyone I know with back pain about the lessons I've taken from Gabrielle and what I've learned from her. I sure do recommend her! I have very serious scoliosis and the relief I have found is an improvement I have longed for. The clearing of old emotional baggage is huge.
Michelle Howden - Over the past year, with skill and innate intelligence, she has helped me use writing to tap into my past, understand who I was growing up and who I am now. As I continue the journey to becoming more true to myself. She gives me the right mix of challenge and heart. I couldn't be in better hands.Mary Donkersloot
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After I started working with Gabrielle I found that the peace I long was creeping into my life in unexpected ways. I experience calm in frustrating situations. My reactions to situations are way different. I can see other ways of viewing things. I don’t work at this-I don’t do anything. I merely attend the meditations or listen to the audio files at home!
Pam Perkins -
I don't know how it all works, but Gabrielle has given me some great medicine, in the form of her instruction, that has given me hope for managing my pain. That means a lot to me. She has given me a way to respond to aging that makes me feel it's not an inevitable decline in mobility and mental acuity.
Jennifer Soloman - PTSD was raging and I couldn't get rid of it...I would lash out at people, get overwhelmed and always looking for a bunker, a place to get away. Getting to a different place started with going to iRest sessions with Gabrielle. I started to notice people looking back at me, like I wasn't projecting rage any more...I didn't see that for many years but whatever I was projecting outwards was differentRichard Lowry
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