Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body and emotions by learning what physical symptoms like headaches and stomachaches are trying to tell you. It expands your capacity to handle stress by teaching you to feel instead of repress.
What role does somatic healing come to address? The world is moving at a fast pace. There's so much going on, so much distraction, and it's pulling us away from the experience of our body. It's pulling us away from feeling our emotions. So somatic therapies helps you to feel emotions in ways that you are not repressing anymore. You're not dissociating. You're opening up your nervous system to a world of feeling comfortable with stress because stress is not bad. It's the way that we deal with stress, the way that we move through life that can help us increase that window of tolerance, that capacity to move through today's modern world. And somatic therapies are brilliant in this because learning that language of the body, learning to feel more, learning to access that nonverbal communication that we're constantly getting through headaches, through stomachaches, through low back pain is so important and can be life-changing.
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