We need to feel to heal
Jan Normanton • September 12, 2024
To heal we need to slow right down, to move from our mind and drop into the body
This may feel scary and the antithesis to what our mind is telling us, particularly if we have experienced trauma in the body. Indeed we may feel unsafe in the body and so camp out in the mind.
Through connection with another supportive human being, through co-regulation and leaning initially on their regulated nervous system if we are unable to regulate our own, we may come to learn to feel safe in our own body.
Thus expanding our window of tolerance, growing our resilience and coming to self regulate our own nervous system. Thus breaking the cycle of trauma triggering. Thus coming to feel safe at home within ourself. This is how Somatic Massage can support.
Explore what it means to be an embodied therapist and why presence, not technique, is the key to truly transformative bodywork. Learn how The SOMA Massage Method™ helps therapists connect with themselves and their clients for deeper healing.
Discover why true emotional healing starts with feeling safe in your body. Learn how chronic stress affects your nervous system and how practices like Soma Massage can support deep, body-based healing and recovery.
Trauma and stress aren't matter in the muscles; it’s physiology imprinted in the nervous system.
SOMA Massage is a powerful antidote to the hurriedness of life. It offers a space where anxiety, stress, and overwhelm can dissolve, where you can simply be yourself, free from expectations
A resilient, robust nervous system is key to healing and wellbeing, allowing you to manage life's challenges effectively while enjoying periods of deep relaxation.
Creating a safe environment is essential to reduce anxiety and stress, and encourage a sense of control and agency in clients
May you remember when you’re on that hamsterwheel of healing, feeling it’s like a hustle to just slow down, breathe and drop into who you are and make peace with that and enjoy yourself!
Connection to self, others, life itself offers safety and can provide the cornerstone of contentment and love. Whilst disconnection to self, others, life poses threat and so can cause the opposites – unhappiness and fear
Leaning into a change process that feels safer, planned, paced, can offer a smoother journey into what we do want, whilst tempering and taming the fears, doubts and sense of regression that may present themselves along the way
Whilst talking therapies have a significant role in healing in their own right, we can end up inadvertently holding up our healing process by getting invested in talking ABOUT our issues rather than dealing directly WITH our issues via the body – the place of trauma
