TRAUMA HEALING

Traumatic events deeply challenge individual's sense of safety and security in the world. As a result, individual's may experience lower confidence, decreased self-esteem, and  feelings of inadequacy that may start overriding different aspects of their life from their work to their relationships.  
 

The brain has been made to heal itself, however a traumatic experience prevents the brain from fully healing. A traumatically stored memory is stored in an isolated bubble of an experience, which means that the sight, thoughts, smells, emotions, and feelings get frozen in time. Therefore, the past is the present, according to the brain. In additional the developmental age with which the traumatic event occurred is stored in the brain. Hyper-arousal as well as hypo-arousal freeze time and space, which can mean that external events that are similar to the past trauma can trigger the same reaction from the time of the developmental age. How we think of ourselves get frozen at the time of the trauma.

Our bodies hold on to past traumas which are reflected in our body language, posture and also expressions. In some cases past traumas may manifest physical symptoms: sexual dysfunction, anxiety,  depression and isolation.

What’s important to note for therapists is that in much of our graduate education, we were taught to make our clients feel more comfortable and safe as we help them build on their window of tolerance in order to move past trauma.

Somatic Healing offers a variety of benefits. It reframes and transforms current or past negative experiences, inculcates greater sense of oneself, confidence, resilience and hope. It reduces discomfort, strain and stress while developing a heightened ability to feel safe again within your being.