Healing Through Yoga After the Boston Marathon Bombing with Meghan Zipin

How We Can Heal

Today on How We Can Heal Podcast, Lisa Danylchuk and Meghan Zipin talk about how yoga helps address stress caused by extreme events. Boston Marathon is one of the major world marathon events hosted annually. But aside from being a world event, the Boston Marathon became even more famous because of what happened in 2013. Here, Meghan shares her first-hand experience of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, what she struggled with in having PTSD, and what trauma-informed yoga means to people like her whose lives are penetrated by trauma.

Meghan Zipin on defining PTSD

After what took place during the 2013 Boston Marathon, everything seemingly changed right after for Meghan. Everything that happened before that was no more the custom in her daily life. It may have not impacted Meghan physically—but it affected her emotionally and mentally. From there on, constantly feeling jumpy became her routine.

A constant hyper-vigilance and alertness perpetuated Meghan’s default body state. It interrupted her sleep at night. And because of the stress that the event perpetuated into her system, Meghan found it difficult to throw herself into anything that she couldn’t gauge as ‘predictable.’ The disorder she experienced became a pattern. And before she knew it, Meghan was already experiencing PTSD beyond what she could fully grasp about her condition.

About Meghan Zipin:

Experienced Owner and emerging writer with a demonstrated history of working in the health wellness and fitness industry. Skilled in Business Planning, Market Research, Management, Healthcare, and Business Relationship Management. Strong healthcare services professional with an MBA focused in Management and Leadership from Boston College - Carroll School of Management.

Outline of the episode:

● [02:11] How Meghan found yoga

● [05:45] Yoga served as something that anchored me

● [10:09]Yoga does a great job at helping us recognize how we can shift gears

● [15:09] Meghan Zipin on the struggle to admit to having PTSD

● [20:11] People with PTSD can’t identify and name what they’re going through

● [27:18] The concern for ‘touch’ in trauma-informed yoga

● [32:02] How Meghan transitions her clients from one move to another during yoga sessions

● [38:17] You never really know what someone is going to walk away with after yoga sessions

● [41:57] Meghan Zipin on using intake forms with clients

● [48:30] What gives Meghan Zipin hope?

Resources:

Website: https://www.meghanzipin.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-delaney-zipin-51851a35/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mismegs82/?hl=en

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