“The body does not digest what has happened and instead, we stuff our feelings, numb out, or deny reality.” “It’s like eating a big meal and not fully digesting it, but then eating another big meal, and then another,” Candela Brower explains. Trauma is “when too much happens too soon for the nervous system to process,” says Valerie Candela Brower, a licensed professional counselor and certified somatic experiencing practitioner in Southbury, Connecticut. When you practice these body-focused exercises, you focus on physical sensations, instead of thoughts and emotions as you’d do in talk therapy, or your fears as you’d do with exposure therapy. Somatic experiencing may allow you to revisit trauma without recalling specific events and emotions. It was conceptualized as an alternative to other trauma-focused therapies - which, although effective for some people, didn’t work for everyone.
Somatic therapy, aka somatic experiencing, was originally developed by Peter Levine in the late 1970s. Somatic therapy is a body-focused approach that may be particularly helpful if you have symptoms of chronic stress or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There are a few therapeutic approaches for healing from trauma.
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