By addressing physical aspects of emotional experiences, somatic therapy helps you move beyond "venting" to achieve genuine emotional healing and growth.
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Emotions, when understood through somatic therapy, serve as valuable indicators of our inner state, revealing deeper truths about ourselves while requiring balanced interpretation to distinguish genuine insights from distorted responses.
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Hard as it might be to fathom, there are many reasons to embrace frustration. Picture a world where we might say “have a frustrating week” instead of “a nice one.” Through somatic therapy, we can learn to harness the power of frustration, facilitating neuroplasticity and personal transformation.
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There has been a wave of mainstream acknowledgement that trauma is stored in the body, this is the second wave: moving it out.
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Understanding the impact of emotionally unavailable attachment figures on adult attachment patterns is a crucial aspect of the therapeutic process.
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Somatic therapy harnesses our innate capacity for healing by creating space for your body to process pre-verbal complex trauma.
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Somatic therapy can improve awareness of defense mechanisms, as well as provide a method for processing the feelings these defenses are covering up.
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By delving into the physical sensations and bodily experiences associated with anxiety, somatic therapy can offer a pathway to calmness and relief from insomnia.
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Most couples recognize that they are relating to one another in a subconscious habitual way that keeps them feeling stuck. Somatic therapy can offer strategies to help couples become unstuck and reconnect with each other.
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For queer identifying people, the dating landscape often comes with unique experiences and complexities that can feel isolating, exhausting and disembodying. Somatic therapy offers some ways to manage this.
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What is the role of anger in an emotionally healthy person and how can somatic therapy help someone develop a positive relationship with anger?
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Many men displaying anger or engaging in escapist or risky behaviors might be unaware that these behaviors are actually symptoms of underlying depression.
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What exactly is anxiety and why does it present so differently? At Downtown Somatic Therapy, we define anxiety by what happens in the body and we measure the severity of that anxiety by how it manifests physically.
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Do you feel resistance to processing your emotions through your body? At Downtown Somatic Therapy, we believe in the healing through the body with the awareness that it can be quite fear-inducing for most.
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Generally speaking, “Yes”, says therapist Stefan Allen-Hickey of Downtown Somatic Therapy in New York City: “the success of a relationship with this attachment style configuration relies on the couple coming to understand the emotions that underlie their partner’s response to stress”.
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When we feel shame we may withdraw from others, avoid intimacy, or become defensive or angry.
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Due to its mindful, body-centered approach, somatic therapy can be an effective way to address and resolve a host of issues related to sex.
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Self-protective responses to shame can be a source of misunderstanding and lead to ruptures in relationships. We explore shame in relationships in this article.
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If you feel ambivalent about being in therapy, this could be a portal into more transformative work with your therapist or it could be a sign that you’ve outgrown them.
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If you feel ambivalent about being in therapy, this could be a portal into more transformative work with your therapist or it could be a sign that you’ve outgrown them.
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