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The Workout Witch 30-day Hip Release: I really feel like I’m done with traditional talk therapy. I’ve probably spent six years, off and on, and fired one therapist. And by fired I made up some excuse and didn’t tell her the real reason. (Very much me, circa 2016. But I will, right before I write about it in my book.) The thing is though, I’m still having anxiety bubbling up, my brain is still scanning the horizon for danger, the way she learned to when I was a little girl, and more and more I am reading that this is about the trauma (forgive the tired buzzword) that still remains stored in my body. Enter somatic exercises, which I had already put on my list of things to find out about. Then a gorgeous and helpful friend sent me a Reel by The Workout Witch, aka Liz Tenuto, and now I’m on Day 8 …