Somatic Therapy
Somatic is a fancy word for your body.
Being in your body doesn’t always feel comfortable.
Sometimes, it’s the sweaty palms, tight throat, and racing heart anxiety. Other times, it feels like your body doesn’t exist, like it’s not a part of you. Empty numbness and the pain of not feeling are too much.
You check out by doom-scrolling, binge-watching, or popping in the earbuds to drown out the gnawing. Whatever it takes to make this feeling, or lack thereof, go away.
The discomfort is overwhelming. The overwhelm keeps you from moving forward as your mind races, and your body feels even more nervous.
Your Nervous System is on high alert.
You go into survival mode as a natural response to something that feels unsafe.
You’ve probably heard of the fight or flight response, but do you know about freeze?
Freeze is your body’s other survival strategy to keep you safe. You tune out, shut down, dull your senses, and dim your light to distract from what’s happening inside you.
Without the ability to regulate your nervous system, it’s going haywire, and it feels totally out of control. Life feels chaotic and unmanageable.
Feeling jittery AND immobile is no place to live.
The pain can be so intense that you want to crawl out of your skin and run away from yourself.
You try to ignore, avoid, and distract yourself from the discomfort, but it catches up to you. It always, eventually, does.
You try again, disengage, and disembody as a way not to feel. Now you’ve severed connection to yourself and feel even more alone, lost, and scared.
If it’s too hard to live in your body, and it’s equally painful to disconnect – it all feels impossible. You ask, “Well sh*t, then what am I supposed to do?”
Come home to your body as a Safe Base.
It’s time to cultivate a new relationship with your pain by befriending your body as an ally in your healing journey. Somatic Therapy is your Soothing Healing Balm.
Because here’s the thing: your body stores your life experiences. All the trauma and wisdom that you’ve gathered along the way is held as information, and with that, your body knows how to heal you.
Your body is always speaking to you. It’s time to learn its language. It may begin as a whisper, a slight headache, and eventually become louder and louder into a significant physical pain that you can no longer ignore.
Through Somatic Therapy, you can learn to listen AND do something about the pain.
You are so much more than you think you are.
Your mind is a seasoned time traveler, regretting past events and worrying about the future. It has you scrambling for what feels good, what feels right. Your body is a time capsule – containing all the answers in the present moment.
When you use your mind to focus your awareness on the body’s current sensations, you open to your body’s wisdom. You’re learning its communication style; your body feels the parts and pieces of who you are.
When your nervous parts feel seen and supported through somatic work, they feel safe. The nervous parts are no longer anxious. Your body and mind calm down – you can awaken to who you are.
Your body gets to feel like home – the safe base you can always return to.
Breath is the bridge between Mind and Body.
Your brain and body want the same thing – to keep you alive and feeling great! When they work as teammates, you win. When they don’t, you suffer.
Through guided movement and focused breathing, the mind and body learn to communicate and heal you as the whole person you are.
No longer disconnected, you feel powerful, clear-headed, and fully turned on.
From where you are now ~ to where you want to be ~ Let’s bridge this gap together. Contact me today for more information about Somatic Therapy.