Discharge is the New Black

Everyone’s doing it.

Seriously. Animals do it possibly several times a day.
It happens after a chase, a close call, or even just a loud noise, they tremble. You’ve seen a dog shiver after a fright, cat’s fur standing on end, or a bird shake out their feathers after flight.

This isn’t random. It’s biology.

Shaking is how their nervous systems discharge survival energy. It’s a process of ‘completing the stress response cycle’. The same fight, flight, or freeze states we as humans get stuck in.

The difference? Animals don’t override it with control, with thinking - the neo-cortex or human mind. They let their bodies lead. The ‘animal body’ as trauma expert Peter Levine describes.

Humans? We clamp down.
We hold it together.
We store it.

That unresolved charge or chemicals may show up later as:

• Insomnia

• Hot flushes

• Tight, aching joints

• Anxiety

• Emotional heaviness that just won’t budge
  

  As Bessel van der Kolk reminds us in The Body Keeps the Score, trauma isn’t just in the mind. It’s held in the body — in muscles, fascia, and the primitive brain.

But here’s the good news: We still have access to our animal body, if we allow it to lead.

When you allow yourself to shake, even gently:

🌀 Your vagus nerve gets the signal: You’re safe now, (no more danger - even with loud noises)
🌀 Your fascia softens and hydrates, letting Qi and blood move freely again. Mobility and adaptability return.
🌀 Cortisol and adrenaline metabolise instead of recirculating. Hello sleep.
🌀 Your whole system downshifts from “survival” to “rest and repair” And suddenly: Breath deepens.

This isn’t about “fixing” yourself. It’s about letting your body do what it was designed for.

Freedom, adapting, play.

A more fluid, playful you.

Ready to try?
Turn on your favourite song, relax the hips, ankles, knees and shake it out. No choreography. No right or wrong. Just movement.

This is medicine. Simple. Potent. Free.

Big Love, Anny 🐆♥️