You can recover from anything.
Your body and soul know the way forwards. Together, we can create space for them to lead the way.
Somatic Therapy - An Assisted Awareness Practice
Somatic Therapy brings awareness to subconscious movement impulses held in the sensory motor system. Creating space for them to be held in a new way repatterns nervous system responses that have become frozen in time.
Research finds it especially effective for Capacity Building, Trauma Integration and Relational Healing.
Capacity Building
We access the implicit memory held on a sensory-motor level through slowing down and attuning to subtle cues in the feeling and imaginal body.
This opens the door to attune with layers of being that are deeper, slower, and wider than everyday consciousness allows.
When there is enough safety present, these layers begin to move and express, opening new pathways of activity. What was frozen or held in a repeating loop warms and becomes mobile again.
This can lead to:
Feeling Vibrant and Alive in the Body
Accessing a wider Range of Emotions
Clearer Boundaries - Yes~Maybe~No
Expressing Yourself more Naturally
Sense of Purpose and Direction
Relational Healing
The relational patterns we form are unique and specific to how our system responds to the world around us.
We have many strategies for getting our needs met, learned through careful observation and mirroring during our developmental years.
Depending on our circumstances, many of these remain effective and useful throughout our whole lives.
Others may serve a purpose for a time, creating some level of safety and security, but eventually limiting our ability to be who we want to be and form the kinds of relationships we desire in this world.
Somatic therapy helps us bring movement to fixed relational patterns that are ready to evolve.
Trauma Integration
Trauma can occur at any level from the most mundane to the most horrific. It is not what happens, but how the organism (body-mind-spirit) responds to it.
Trauma responses are adaptive strategies to overwhelming events where our reptilian part responds to a perceived threat by overriding the more complex mammalian brain to achieve safety.
We do not choose these responses consciously - just like we do not choose how to use our feet for walking. We just get up and do it!
Integrating these responses into conscious awareness helps the system recognize:
“That was then - this is now.”
What was once an effective mechanism of self-protection has become a limiting habit.
With more support available we can inquire:
"is this really my best option? Are there other choices present now that were not possible before??"
When trauma is present in the system, habitual responses to stress can include:
Addiction (Food, Sex, Adrenaline, Substances, Scrolling)
Anxiety
Depression
Aggressive Anger
Shutting Down
Somatic therapy helps us get beneath these adaptive strategies to their originating needs. This opens the door to finding new ways to meet them.