Somatic experiencing can be a powerful tool for trauma recovery, but it’s crucial to approach it safely and with proper self-advocacy. This episode outlines five key considerations for engaging in somatic experiencing therapy: maintaining a slow pace, focusing on specific events, ensuring personal safety, addressing feelings of sadness and shame, and stabilizing before leaving therapy sessions. The importance of finding a trustworthy practitioner and creating a safe environment for processing trauma is emphasized. Additionally, the connection between somatic experiencing and embodiment practices is explored, offering practical suggestions for those not yet ready for formal therapy.
Posts Tagged "safety"
8.6 | 1. Guided Imagery Mini Series Intro | Words by your MF Incanthatus!
You know our friend and reigning community leader, Incanthatus? Well buckle up, because they're spittin' wisdom in a...
Visuals and Transcript | When you can’t get the basics you need
Here's the wordy version AND my illustrations of the most recent post! Sorry, working on watercolors - Day 1. ...
8.4 When you can’t get the basics of life | Trauma-Society
So humans have done incredible things, right? Or have we constructed our own cages and called it "progress." Born into...
8.3 ACEs and Societal Disgraces | FDCDC
So why didn't you hear about childhood trauma for so long? Ready for some bullshit? Let's talk about the ACEs writeup...
8.2 Supplement: When is it time to leave a situation?
So... we have a hard time as TMFRs, trusting when we've "done enough" versus guilting ourselves into staying in...
Visual Version: Space For Recovering Yer Splintered Self
I know, it's me again. When it rains it pours. Here's the transcript/blog version of the most recent episode!...
8.1 Work vs. Recovery | Control your own time
Work. We all have to do it. With trauma, we aren't usually very good at it. At least, we aren't good at finding jobs...
8.0 Space for Recovering Yer Splintered Self | Let’s get back to it, Welcome to Season 8
So we know we need time to recover. But what else is commonly impossible to access, trapping us in continual...