Begin healing your relationship with your body after trauma through a gentle, compassionate, and responsive somatic practice.

Our relationships with our bodies are impacted by many experiences: the environments we grew up in, the environments we currently live in, our past and current relationships, culture standards and expectations, trauma, and the list goes on and on. These experiences can leave us relating to our bodies through judgment, shame, criticism, and frustration. Living inside this disconnected and difficult relationship with our bodies is very painful.

The essence of somatic healing is to address and support the physical and emotional impacts of our experiences through developing a gentle, compassionate, and responsive relationship with our bodies and our bodies’ needs. HOW we engage with somatic practice tends to be more important than the particular kinds of somatic practices we use, meaning the ways we relate to our bodies through somatic practice has a deeper impact than simply going through the motions.
 
Befriending Your Body: A Somatic Guide to Developing a Healing relationship with Your Body After Trauma will help you understand how your body has been impacted by trauma, help you bring compassion to your inner experience, and help you learn how to be responsive to your body’s needs so you can heal physically and emotionally.
 
Befriending Your Body: A Somatic Guide to Developing a Healing Relationship with Your Body After Trauma includes:
An explanation of the body story and how trauma impacts the ways we relate to our bodies.
A breakdown of the healing elements of somatic work: the relational qualities that work together to create a gentle and responsive relationship with our bodies.
Descriptions of and ways to practice the somatic skills that encourage a healing dialogue with the body, including somatic awareness, somatic tracking, and somatic learning.
20 somatic practices with descriptions for how to get started, why they are helpful, as well as options for flexibility and tailoring to your individual needs.
 
Befriending Your Body is more than a list of somatic exercises; it is a guide to shifting the ways we relate to our bodies so that we can feel at home in our own skin.