Healing With SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
What Does Somatic Experiencing Help Heal?
Somatic Experiencing has been shown to benefit individuals suffering from trauma such as
Physical Trauma
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• Wounds such as medical interventions and auto accidents
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• Diseases such as high fever, headaches, migraines, gastrointestinal disorders
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• Chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome
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• Asphyxiation, birth trauma
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• Traumas from natural disasters such as floods, earth quakes, tsunamis
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• Rape, sexual abuse, torture, war
Dr. Levine on Somatic Experiencing and Sexual Abuse
Relational/Emotional Trauma
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• disconnected from others, in which one is numbed
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• too connected to some, with repeated destructive patterns
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• loss of a loved one, divorce, separation
Dr. Levine on Somatic Experiencing and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Developmental Trauma
• neglect abandonment and/or abuse in childhood
Suffering stress, shock or trauma can feel like it cuts right through you - your body, your feelings and your psyche.
By mobilizing the body’s innate self-healing capacities, Somatic Experiencing helps to resolve these problems.
“Not a day goes by without something upsetting happening -
but the question is whether we get stuck with it, or whether we move through it.”
Dr. Levine,
Somatic Experiencing Founder
By working in a careful manner, one can gain a steady confidence in one’s ability to resolve the trauma in a safe, conscious and confident way.
The distressing cycle of symptom escalation of the trauma can potentially be reversed, disolving symptoms and rebuilding confidence.
