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
The architecture and design of our autonomic nervous system means that certain parts are going to work depending on the needs of the situations. We’ll run for our lives if we have to and digest our food while chatting all night if we get to. The perception of what the situations demands or allows is made by
As we get better at Somatic Experiencing we’re going to see a bunch of ways that we’d like to change what we do in our sessions. Here’s one friendly pattern I use to change my own habits when I discover that I’m doing something that is unhelpful to the process. Funny, it’s all about titration.
SE could be called a lot of things but one of them should be an “amalgamated practice.” There are so many creative threads running through the corpus of the SE tradition that we’re indebted to other modalities as much as our own. And we can also learn from them in helpful ways to increase our
After nearly 18 months away from these podcasts I’m excited to have my free attention back so I can resume this project. Here’s a brief hit on why I’ve been away with a little insight hidden between the lines about the cost of a neuroception of impending doom – like from the fire that became