Somatic Sense

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

Understanding Common Frustrations with Somatic Therapy What is Resourcing? Resourcing is the practice of reconnecting with safety, stability, and comfort in your nervous system. It's about building your capacity to feel grounded, regulated, and resourced so that when we do deeper healing work, your nervous system has the tools and the safety it needs to process without becoming "flooded", which can reinforce the nervous system's trauma response. Resourcing looks like building

Hopefully you had a chance to read my blog on what somatic therapy is, linked here. If so, you might be wondering: doesn't somatic therapy require being in person? Since it involves the body, doesn't something get lost through a screen? After practicing somatic therapy virtually for quite some time now, I can tell you with confidence, it doesn't. Somatic therapy is not only possible virtually, it is deeply effective. Here is why. There is no necessary hands-on component to so