You deserve to feel safe and comfortable in your body after trauma
Jan Normanton • October 22, 2024
Horrendous life events shape your biology, but you can do something about it and alter the relationship you have to your body. Bessel van der Kolk
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You may feel unsafe in your body after trauma, a sense of having no trust in your body, especially if it was the place of trauma, if things were done to your body.
You may feel you no longer trust your body and wish to avoid feeling into your body.
We can end up using all sorts of strategies to avoid being in our bodies, ranging from moving into the head, to all out disassociating and using addictive practices to avoid feeling and being present in our bodies.
Know that there are safe ways to return back into your body, to come to some sort of resolution and trust in your body.
With practices, healthy ways and strategies to support you to come home to yourself, trauma does not need to be a life sentence.
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
