Trauma Resolution

Ever wonder why your dog shakes after a particularly tense or overwhelming encounter? or why springboks and gazelles do that crazy pronking thing?

Healing from trauma, and processing possible traumas, is something we are built to do. It is a natural process that has become interrupted in the un-naturalness of our present day lives.

Trauma, as nervous system specialists define it, is any experience which has overwhelmed the body’s natural defences or which put one of our biological imperatives at odds with another; putting us in an ‘impossible’ situation. A traumatic experience can get blocked from being processed when it is not adequately acknowledged and supported by those closest to us.

We need to express the intense energy produced by such circumstances, and to be heard and supported by others in doing so. If it is unsafe to express it, we cannot process it, and we will hold that energy within ourselves until it is. In the mean time we will use that energy to shape and inform many other experiences without even realising it.

In somatic therapy we learn to support our body’s natural healing process by providing the support we were missing or lacking in the past. This helps us find the freedom and movement inhibited by traumatic experiences, and to shift our awareness into the present moment.