Twig’s SE Reflections

Summary: One of the challenges being in “distress” or having the symptoms that go along with trauma and nervous system dis-regulation is that things feel “off” and “weird”. That makes things challenging since SE follows a kind of logic that suggests that at some level, those uncomfortable feelings are part of what needs to be “felt” and “experienced.” Helping our clients come to a sufficiently participatory place with such feelings is a critical element of the work that we do and of the help that we offer. And it’s one reason why our client’s need us (for now).

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Daily life probably has some kind of balance between Positive and Negative experiences where, more or less, the ideal is that we can swing between our impressions of them both. Spend enough time around danger and that swinging gets skewed toward the distressed side of things. Getting a sense of how much positivity our client’s

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Teachers of complex crafts like Somatic Experiencing come in all different styles and capacities for explaining their own process. But none of them can ever name everything they’re doing, nor should they. Part of learning the craft is learning how to pay attention and to sometimes “steal the technique.” This takes your active participation and

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We’ll spend hours a week sitting in similar positions to people who are actively seeking therapy because they’re in distress. That means we’ll spend hours a week in the postures of distress which are not otherwise our own. We need to remember to tell our bodies that we’re not in that associated upset whenever we

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One focus of this project is to answer questions I receive from SE people about our work. This time I’m working off 3 questions: Why does it take so long to learn SE? Did I do something wrong if I lost a noncommittal client? What does it mean to talk to people in different ways

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