VIDEO: STRT is an Embodied Therapy

Jan Normanton • May 23, 2023

This STRT therapy that I offer is a beautiful therapy, it is an embodied therapy that tackles the most issues at source which is nervous system dysregulation.

It supports clients to come out of nervous system dysregulation, of stress and supports the body to default to the rest and digest state where we can feel relaxed, soothed, expansive, clear, clear headed, clear minded, free of the burdens of difficult emotions.

We can switch off those states of high anxiety or deep depression.

We can turn around pain, pain that has no reason to be there. Pain that isn’t due to surgery or an injury may be due to an overactive nervous system that is primed to be in the fight/flight/fright state, so that there’s tension in the body all the time and that the body never gets to relax, with muscles that are overworked, that are always tense and tight and this causes the tension and the pain that we can experience chronically when our nervous system is dysregulated. 

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