Summary: Staying in the Session can be difficult when you start thinking “I’m not going to be able to do Somatic Experiencing with this person.” Banish the thought! Stay in the Session, that’s the only way to be present for when something new happens that you can work with.
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).
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
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
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