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What is Somatic Experiencing Therapy?

Somatic Experiencing Therapy is under the umbrella term ‘somatic therapies’. The root word of ​somatic is ‘soma’, Latin for “of the body”. All somatic therapies include the body and have a focus on ​the body as leader in healing mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical wounds.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based and bottom-up approach to treating trauma, stress, and ​related mental health disorders. But what does this actually mean? Let’s compare two opposite ​approaches to working with mental health....Read more.

How Somatic Therapy Changed ​the Way I Parent, Forever

Parenting is the most beautiful and most painful thing I’ve ever experienced. Why? It’s because of ​love: you love your kids so much, it hurts.

When I first became a parent, I had a very rigid idea of how I wanted things to go. I wanted to be a ​natural parent: one that offered structure, a safe place, and easeful connection. Naively, I prepared ​by reading the most recommended parenting books, executing an aesthetically pleasing nursery, and ​attending regular birth prep yoga classes in hopes of becoming...Read more.