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Imagine calm and grounded, is at the steering wheel. In the passenger seat and throughout the car sit all of your different parts. Your perfectionist part. Your inner critic. Maybe an anger part, a self-protective part, a hypervigilant part, whatever shows up for you. Right now, everything feels okay. Your core self is driving, listening to all of these parts, and choosing how to respond to the world. But then something happens. Someone says something that feels critical. Or

The transformation I witness, in my clients and in myself, is indescribable. Somatic therapy has the power to reshape how we live in our bodies and move through the world in a holistic and evidence-based way. "Soma" means body in Greek. To put it simply, somatic therapy is therapy that includes the body. It's a bottom-up approach to healing, which means we work with the nervous system and body first. Somatic therapy is much more interested in the felt sense of your experience

Many of the systems in our body need stress to grow. Actually... a ton of systems do! Our bones need impact to become stronger. Our heart needs intense, strenuous exercise to avoid heart hardening. Our cardiovascular system needs the stress of exercise to stay healthy. Our lungs and other organs need the challenge of exercise to become stronger and increase capacity. Our muscles get stronger under weight-training stress; they literally tear and rebuild stronger (that fact wil