Somatic therapy has gain popularity over the last 2 years in the therapy realm and beyond. The reason for this is because more and more research is discovering the connection between our brain, body and experiences. Traumatic experiences, anxiety and depression can “get stuck” in our body and nervous system. Therapy that values somatic healing will not only focus on cognitive processes but also emotions and sensations present in the body.
Below I’ve created a list of the top three few benefits of somatic therapy.
- We can begin to feel safe in our body. Many of us who experience depression, anxiety, and trauma symptoms can feel like an outsider in our own skin. We can feel like we are crawling out of our skin, dissociating from our body, or just feeling an overall sense of discomfort in our body. Somatic therapy addresses these emotions and sensations by allowing us to gently turn inward and process what valuable information our body is trying to tell us.
2. We can clear out old negative memories without having to think about them. When old sensations and emotions get stuck in our body, we need to tap into our body to clear them out. In other modalities, the focus in purely on thought but that doesn’t address the underlying uncomfortability existing in our body and isn’t an effective way of clearing it either.
3. Lastly, it can help relieve physical symptoms as well. Emotions and physical pain are so connected and cannot be separated. When we are holding anxiety, stress, grief or trauma in our neck for example, we may experience neck pain often. Utilizing somatic therapy to clear out emotional blockages, we in turn begin to help heal physical discomfort as well.
Somatic therapy is my passion so please feel free to email me if you have any questions reneeminxtherapy@gmail.con
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