Our modern world most often operates from a top-down, mind-over-matter perspective. Sometimes, this framework is useful. Often, it becomes harmful when we move through life ignoring the power that is held within our bodies.
As a human being, you exist as a web of interwoven systems (nervous system, energy systems, musculoskeletal system, digestive system, etc.) that hold patterns that are not always in direct communication with your conscious thoughts.
If we believe that we can overpower our bodies and know what is right and reasonable, we often become subject to living life overpowered by that which is unconscious.
Somatic therapy (based on Peter Levine's Somatic experiencing) works by connecting you into your body through emphasis on safety and release of stored energies. Here, the healing process occurs through connection with self as you move into deeper knowing and understanding.
What is trauma?
Trauma is a loaded word, yet each and every human being holds trauma in some form. For some, the trauma speaks up in full force on a regular basis. For others, trauma lives under the surface, impacting decisions and behaviors and well-being without it being known to the individual.
As we work together, trauma healing may take shape as an intention for those who are aware (or become aware through our time together) that it is asking for devoted attention.
Else, somatic therapy serves as an approach to connect deeper into self, releasing stored energies that keep you out of felt connection (which you may or may nor wish to identify as trauma).
At the root
Disconnection with self is often at the root of our inability to heal our pains and discomforts and change our behavioral patterns. By this, I mean that it is a disconnection from our ability to feel in sensory connection with all parts of self.
The healing process takes a unique shape for each individual. In the somatic therapy context, we hold felt, sensory connection with self at the root of our work together.
