Category: Somatic Therapy
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Somatic Psychotherapy: Tuning Into Our Wild Wisdom
Somatic Experiencing is about returning home in our own body. So often, we become disconnected from our physical self, especially when we are burdened by unresolved trauma. Body-oriented therapeutic approaches, like somatic work, can bypass the mind when words fail to help us process certain issues in our lives. Though…
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Polyvagal Theory: Understanding Our Animal Instincts
Polyvagal theory helps us to understand emotional regulation by way of evolution and the brain. In human evolutionary history, the transition from reptiles to mammals enabled the brain to develop social functions beyond its original threat reactivity. These ancestral brain structures allowed pre-humans to evolve into the social creatures that…