Somatic Healing

Somatic healing sessions address experiences, history and trauma that can be held in our systems unconsciously yet have profound impacts on the quality of the attachment relationship with ourselves and with others. We all come into form with an original blueprint unique to our own soul-spirit path. This original blueprint is then imprinted by whatever family field we enter into, whatever experiences we have in conception, gestation, birth and in the first 3 years after birth in particular - the pre and perinatal period of life. It is here where we learn about bonding with ourselves and develop attachment relationships with caregivers, and develop hopefully a sense of loveableness and trust in the world. Of course later life experiences can also leave powerful imprints, which benefit from having support to resolve. But the first 3 years of life beginning with the conception period has been found to be profoundly impactful in creating the foundation for our experience of life that defines our capacity for healthy adult relationships, our feelings and beliefs about ourselves, our sense of safety and trust in the world. To address this kind of implicit or somatic/unconscious imprinting requires specific attention and therapeutic approaches that may include but also go below the cognitive “talking” approach to healing, and address the somatically held layers of trauma and experience - the emotions and sensations that are held in our bodies in an unconscious way, yet nevertheless impact us and are often “acted out” unconsciously throughout our lifetimes, sometimes in destructive and painful ways, if not brought into conscious awareness. With support and awareness, consciousness of these underlying powerful imprints allows us to gradually develop the skills and capacities to make more life-giving, healthy and loving choices.

SIGNS OF EARLY ADVERSE IMPRINTS IN ADULTS

• experiences of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and other difficulties maintaining a positive mood, excitement and sense of self esteem and purpose in your life

• difficulty forming and maintaining a healthy primary relationship with a partner

• aggression that is acted out in destructive or criminal ways

• excessive timidity in everyday life

• inappropriate fight or flight or freeze responses in current non-threatening circumstances

• difficulty mobilizing in the face of actual danger

• difficulty in setting limits and boundaries

• difficulty responding in compassionate, empathetic ways to self or others

• confusion, difficulty with decision making

• excessive risk taking behaviors, e.g. drug addictions, really extreme sports, risky sexual behaviors, dangerous driving

• being irresponsible for one’s own physical safety

• blaming or shaming others regularly as a way to cope with life

• difficulty sequencing – intention, preparation, action, follow through, integration

• difficulty establishing self as an independent adult in the world, with a support system

• major difficulties in parenting that result in neglectful or abusive behaviors towards children

BENEFITS OF ATTACHMENT THERAPY FOR ADULTS

• strengthen your sense of safety and resourcefulness in the world

• resolve shock and trauma

• re-pattern your basic template in life to more ease and grace daily

• deepen your connection to your authentic self and those you care about in your life

• enjoy your body

• become healthier and happier

• change mechanical or automatic patterns into creative choices

• learn to cultivate healing time, stillness and spaciousness

• change reactivity patterns in yourself and in your relationships into responsiveness

• spend more time in the flow and less time in constricted states

• identify and work with family of origin patterns so they aren’t running you today

• deepen your ‘witness’ and your ability to choose

• create space for empathetic responses to yourself and other people/beings

• slow the pace so you can actually feel and integrate your life experiences