Just as a little one needs moment to moment presence, understanding, care, nourishment, soothing, connection and firm limits (amongst many other things!) to support it’s health and well-being, so do our bodies and nervous systems. To support, care for and nourish our resilience we can learn to: °Identity different nervous system states : start to …
Expanding our awareness – which often fixates upon painful sensations, emotions or thought – to include the health of the system, is very curative. Whilst this is pointing out the obvious, time and again, in my own process and those of others I see that we seem to find ourselves wading deeper into the quagmire …
As both practitioners and clients, an over rigid goal of ‘healing’ can obstruct a deep experience of presence, connection, soul-fullness and health. If we are driven to practice a very disciplined healing regimen, motivated and maintained through fear (and fear of our pain), I am not sure if a deeply holistic experience of health, peace …
Taking care of our mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing is a daily practice. Therapy can support a client into living and practicing somatic principles of health and wellbeing a part of their daily life, rather than in a weekly or bi monthly session. We don’t just brush our teeth the day we go to the …