Move Heal Awaken Newsletter Gabriel Shaw

"The easiest way to make a boat go faster is to remove the weight, not add more engine."
- Alex Hormozi​

Hello friends,

Most of the clients I work with share a common trait: They are incredibly good at "doing."

They are the pillars of their families, the drivers of their businesses, and the people everyone else leans on. When a problem arises, their default setting is to apply more effort and more discipline.

But there is a shadow side to this strength. For caring achievers like us, problem-solving for others can become a shield, a way to protect yourself from your own vulnerability. Over time, this constant "efforting" and controlling shows up in the body as chronic pain, fatigue, and a persistent sense of tension.

As a Kinesiologist, I often see this strength become a "dam" in the river.

When my client, John (name changed for privacy), first came to me, he was caught in this exact hustle trap. He was "holding it all together," but his body was paying the price in persistent stiffness and a sense of being perpetually "on."

John had tried it all: the workouts, the "biohacks," the specialists. But he was still approaching his body as a "problem to be fixed." In the hundreds of clients I have helped, I almost always see this approach yield more stuckness. He didn't need a more intense regimen; he needed to clear the debris that was blocking his natural flow.

After we began integrating these somatic and Qigong practices, John shared this:

That "transformation of understanding" is the somatic missing link. John moved from seeing his body as a machine to be "fixed" to seeing it as a vessel to be honoured. He stopped trying to muscle through his tension and started using trauma-informed tools to unblock his nervous system.

The result wasn’t just less pain, it was more capacity to show up for the people and projects that actually matter.

We begin our 8-week journey this Monday, January 19th.

If you are tired of the "no pain, no gain" approach to your health and are ready for a clinical, depth-oriented system that respects your nervous system, I’d love to have you join us.

It is not too late to join this cohort, but we are beginning to close the container.

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When you change how you understand your body, you change how you move through the world. I hope to see you there.

Let's remember together,
Gabriel

Healing Shares

Each week I share vetted resources from trusted experts to assist your healing journey.

• Tactics for a 2026 Reboot (2-hr podcast)​
  ​Tim Ferriss interviews Greg McKeown of Essentialism to help us get more bang for our buck during this temporal reset time of year.
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• Empathy that Transforms the Workplace (2-min video)​
  ​Simon Sinek explains the difference between a cold culture and one that inspires longevity. Hopefully, this inspires you too.
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• Mindful Self-Compassion Course (8-week course)​
  ​One of my colleagues is hosting an online course in self-compassion. This is a skill that I teach all my 1:1 clients that we rely upon to help us do deep inner work.
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• You, Darkness (short poem)​
  ​As our Embodied Flow relies on shining light into dark places, you might find this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by David Whyte) inspires a new perspective.

Thanks for being here with us. Did anything stand out to you? Please reply to let me know. We always enjoy hearing about your favourite resources, too.

Gabriel

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