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I now view my anxiety as my aliveness. It’s this intense energy. My anxiety is there a lot. Last year my teacher, Bruce Tift, told me 'be with it and so what' Getting ready for it is the opposite of expecting it, counting on it, getting rid of it. And if it’s not there, it’s a reprieve.” Happiness versus Freedom “We can’t do it alone,” Israel says. “I don’t want my clients to come in and talk only about their stories. I do my best to meet people where they are. I don’t spend a lot of time in the energy on the story. The state of the brain—our reptilian brain will do what it does, it will go to fear, negative emotion, etc. I trust the instinctual process. I see humanity as extraordinary human beings. “I’m not into happiness, I’m into freedom” she continues. “Happiness is a temporary emotion. Freedom is what we talk about when we talk about embodiment—learning to be with everything. If you are feeling depressed or anxious, you are not happy. But, if all emotions are real and you can be with them, then we can experience freedom. The ability to hold the enormity of our emotions is where freedom is, and happiness often comes with freedom. Ultimately, to experience freedom of being, I have to honor my needs. Then live it, embody it, practice it.” The Fruitional Model “With the help and support of my teacher, I practice the Fruitional model in my work. I’m not a Buddhist yet Buddhist principles make so much sense to me. The Fruitional model reflects the wholeness of the human being, and I work with clients to restore their remembering of their wholeness. I ignite and shine a light on the complexity of our humanness, our behaviors, our stories. In the Western model of medicine, we need to be fixed. In truth, we have nothing to get rid of, nothing is thrown out. Life is workable no matter how messy. Every neurosis we have is brilliant—I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t found my M.O. (modus operandi) to cope. As we age, we have an opportunity to heal our defense mechanisms we created as young children when we didn’t have the skills to deal with our emotional enormity.” “I see women in their 40s and 50s with eating disorders that don’t serve them anymore. When you are 50 years old, we have an opportunity to heal the patterns we developed to survive. Bringing awareness to your eating disorder is a tremendous and beneficial healing component. The first 30 years, I was not aware why I was starving myself; developing awareness was a component of my healing process.” Four Themes There are four themes Israel also addresses with clients to support their health and wellness (family, community, service, and identity). Diane also appreciates Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs: food, shelter, sleep, comfort, family and community. She supports clients to work on sleep patterns, how to find their own rhythm of what works around food, how to notice what’s happening in their environment, and if things are distorted how to maintain a sane state of mind. According to Israel, we all need a healthy family, a tribe to belong to where we are accepted in the fullness of our being, be it our biological family or one we create. Finding a therapist who has lived through an eating disorder (or addiction), who knows it intimately is one part of the family support; it’s crucial to know that you are not alone. “I’ve lived it,” Israel says. “It takes one to know one. I can look my clients in the eye, and they know I really get it. I have no regrets. Our experiences make us extraordinary “I’m not into happiness, I’m into freedom. Happiness is a temporary emotion. Freedom is what we talk about when we talk about embodiment—learning to be with everything. If you are feeling depressed or anxious, you are not happy. But, if all emotions are real and you can be with them, then we can be free to experience freedom. The ability to hold the enormity of our emotions, is where freedom is, and happiness often comes with freedom.” people. I get through my addiction with passion, compassion, and loving kindness. I let my clients know that they are are not flawed. That their addiction is part of their journey in healing.” Service is huge as well, Israel says, knowing that we have a purpose, something to give of ourselves to others. But to offer our best, we have to value ourselves, know we count. Israel offers the idea of ‘self-ing’ because the word selfish has negative connotations. “It’s healthy to be selfish through ‘self-ing and that’s the idea of intimate rapport with our self,” Israel says. “And within ‘selfing’ there comes a sense of identity: Who am I? I have to live a life that allows time for meditation, healthy eating, being in nature. These are requirements for me. I can get away without them for a short bit, but my life doesn’t feel as vibrant,” Israel says. “I live for nature, stillness, and the gift of being in a body.” Continued on page 110 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 80
Beauty Mark A Film by Diane Israel, Carla Precht, and Kathleen Man Reviewed by Nancy Eichhorn. PhD Diane Israel has a story to tell. Deep. Intense. Revealing. Personal. Powerful. Woven within her experiences with anorexia and exercise bulimia are tales of abandonment, distorted thinking, depression, chronic fatigue, disfigurement, anabolic addiction, fear, rape, sibling rivalry, inadequacy, insanity, family pressures, and self-hatred. These are not all Diane’s storylines, however. In this masterful documentary, Diane and her co-producers, Carla Precht and Kathleen Man, weave in other peoples’ stories as they document Diane’s childhood immersion into exercise abuse and starvation, her physical breakdown as her body simply stopped and left her bedridden for months, and her transformation as she sought a new definition of beauty. Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 81
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