Talk therapy works from the head down, but somatic healing starts with the body. After a client processes shame and emotional pain, the real work begins: rebuilding safety in the nervous system so healing actually sticks.
How is that something that you kind of bring to light for them? Traditional talk therapy, couples counseling, the things we mentioned like podcasts, books, that's all brain, right? Cerebral. And so that's called top-down. Somatic is different. It's bottom-up. And so we actually start with the root, the literal base of the body. And so after we learn to dissolve shame, get out of the storm just enough where a woman feels safe enough to be like, oh, I can show myself and my weakness and my not pretty parts in this space, we get to work on the foundation and learning to establish safety again in our nervous system.
