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SOMATIC TRAUMA HEALING

Build resilience through returning to the wisdom of your body, thereby allowing you to move through deep discomfort without overwhelm.

RECONNECT WITH YOUR BODY

Try as we might, we cannot think our way out of trauma. Trauma came in through the body and, with guidance, it can find its way through the body. When we experience trauma, our usual ways of connecting with our bodies get disrupted. It’s like having a map that suddenly has missing or obscured parts. Somatic therapy can help calm your body and prepare your brain for trauma healing. We can be guided into our inner wisdom by returning to the first ways we experience ourselves and the world—through sensation, breath, movement, and touch.

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Is this you?

you’ve experienced trauma and now you feel disconnected from yourself and others. you might be:

  • Struggling to identify your emotions

  • Feeling out of control

  • Dissociating

  • Unsure how to sense what’s going on in your body

  • Wanting to fight or flee in everyday situations

  • Feeling agitated or irritable with loved ones

  • Staying on high alert for perceived threats

  • Having nightmares or emotional flashbacks

  • Scared of what might happen if you become aware of what’s inside of you

  • Worried that there’s just “too much” to tolerate and it doesn’t feel safe to be with your feelings

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you might benefit from somatic work if you…

  • Feel overwhelmed by anxiety

  • Dissociate frequently

  • Avoid your feelings

  • Try to intellectualize your emotions

  • Fear slowing down

  • Feel tense and cannot relax

  • Have racing thoughts

  • Struggle with knowing how you feel

  • Have tend to identify physical sensations (e.g., shortness of breath, numbness, upset stomach, tightness in chest) more than emotions

“IT’S THROUGH OUR BODIES THAT WE EXPERIENCE AND ENGAGE LIFE, AND IT’S IN OUR BODIES THAT WE HEAL.”

Prentis Hemphill

with somatic work, we’ll…

01

Calm your body through a combination of mindfulness, grounding, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). We will spend as much time needed to create trust in the body. It’s your process—you get to set the pace and choose how we approach the tough emotions.

02

Build tolerance to be with your emotions and their accompanying sensations (e.g., anger with tightness in chest, sadness with a heaviness in the stomach). I’ll use body-based language to facilitate getting out of your head and into your body.

03

Slowly process the trauma in both body-based and cognitive ways while checking in about your capacity so as to not become overwhelmed. Safety and consent are integral pieces to trauma processing.

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feel more connected to the present moment

Somatic therapy can help you release stress, tension, and trauma. Through sensations, movement, mindfulness, and breath, you can learn to be more present, access more capacity, and trust your inner resilience. The mind and body are interconnected, meaning that you’ll experience an integrative approach to healing that goes beyond traditional talk therapy.

“Healing is a reminder of what we already are and what we have always been part of.”

Resmaa Menakem

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uncover the resilience of your body

Book your 20 minute consultation video call and I will get back to you within 2-3 working days.