About Gabrielle Pullen
The creator of the Resilience Zone, Gabrielle Pullen, MFA, used the experience of over 20 years of diving deep into human consciousness, after years of living in a world of complete uncertainty to systematically undermine long-term grief and trauma. Before the entire world entered into a state of global grief at the loss of the life we once knew pre-pandemic, the Resilience Zone was forging a new path through the massive uncertainty born of having your roles suddenly ripped out from underneath you, effectively deleting all previous expectations and rewards of the life you used to live. She named her company Your Life Matters just months before Ilonna, her daughter, died of a drug overdose. The name has significance. Every Life Matters.
To get herself out of years of the agony of the dark night of the soul after Ilonna died, she gradually came back to herself. She slowly realized she had the training and the experience to end the suffering she was experiencing. She made a decision that she would find a way out of that hole and teach others how to do it as well. She decided that NO ONE should EVER have to suffer that much.
She dove into a remembrance of her own professional skills in self-care and wellness. She branched out to include new information and trainings: a study of how naturally resilient people deal with adversity. To gather up the tools that work, Gabrielle brought the Resilience Zone into being as a place where people can consider that these are characteristics you can foster and learn.
She knew from long experience that when we support each other, it magnifies the return to wellbeing. From years of work on her own self-growth, long before that horrific phone call that notified her of what had happened, she knew that wherever consciousness is applied, the progress is exponential, not incremental. That's the kind of relief you want when your life has gone south; you want exponential improvement!
She began to see the insanity of how all the professionals - who don't work together at all - counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, even religious leaders separate pain into two separate categories: emotional and physical. It dawned on her that that is patently ridiculous. Chronic pain is chronic pain, regardless of the way it shows up. One affects the other - often profoundly - chronic physical pain is emotionally stressful and chronic emotional pain causes physical tension. She knew this from years of working with thousands of people, and with thousands of horses, using the non-verbal communication of touch to explore all kinds of pain and limitation
Why not work with the entire Soma, the Whole Person, to alleviate the deficit in ease and to promote the expansion of wellbeing? And it turns out the cells speak their minds when conscious intent turns to hear what they have to say. These understandings for the underpinnings that gave birth to this new way of responding to "complicated grief," long-term loss and traumatic suffering.
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