somatic healing is the difference between knowing why you feel bad and actually feeling better.
When I'm trying to explain why I think your work is worth the investment - I usually start with the words "somatic healing is the difference between knowing why you feel bad and actually feeling better."
For me, after nearly two years of sitting in circle with you, I've begun to trust my system to tell me when I'm safe, when I'm not, and what I might need in a specific moment. It's going into a situation and not having any logical reason to not feel safe, but feeling the knot in my belly, the weakness in my knees. And instead of ignoring it, invalidating myself with a "there's no reason to be anxious," or contributing it to something I ate - I listen. I begin to wonder what my body is trying to tell me.
This part, this is why I love the pair of your work and mine. When clients come to me and begin to uncover all the golden strings that lead from their current beingness, behaviors, reactions, and their past experience. When they come to me and we talk that out, we find the strings, we connect them. Then they work with you, and they find the heartbeat of the string. When they've learned to find this heartbeat, this root, the moment their body begins to talk to them - they spot the spiral before they're in the depths of their darkness. And they remember, they remember their conversations with me. They take the awareness of their bodies and their knowledge of where the quickened heartbeat, the knot in their stomach, comes from. They can take a step back and say, no, this isn't me anymore. I'm safe now. And I'm going to use the resources I have to not spiral into darkness.
I don't bulldoze through life as often anymore. And I notice when I am. Your encouragement, your slowness, as allowed me to invite more slowness into my system, into my life. The way you take the time to teach someone to sit in a way that's honoring to their body. The way you listen to the experience of one's body and ask curious questions.
And also, your joy, your excitement, the energy you greet life with. This bubbly, playful approach to the body allows it to become touchable.
- Jamie Eggert LPC Talk Therapist