The Somatic & Transpersonal Blog
Writing on the body, the nervous system, trauma healing, spiritual growth, and the path of becoming whole.
This is where I write about the intersection of somatic and transpersonal work — the body, nervous system, mind, spirit, and the deeper process of becoming more fully ourselves.
I explore what healing can actually look like: what happens in a session, how trauma and stress can show up in the body, why healing isn't linear, and how we can develop a more compassionate relationship with our inner experience.
Drawing from Somatic Experiencing®, Transpersonal Psychology, mindfulness, and body-based practices, I share what I’ve learned through many years of integrative work — what has surprised me, challenged me, changed me, and what I wish someone had told me when I first began this path.
Some weeks, I’ll write about the nervous system or trauma healing. Other weeks, we might explore spirituality, psychedelics, embodiment, relationships, or the questions that arise as we learn to live with greater awareness and wholeness.
New posts every week.
What Somatic Work Is Not
Somatic work is not reliving your trauma, and it is not getting stuck in the story of what happened. Somatic Experiencing® works with grounding, resourcing and pendulation, which means moving in and out of difficult material instead of diving in all at once. It is not retraumatizing. It is building capacity.
What Happens in a Somatic Session?
In a somatic session we talk, and we also pay attention to what your body is doing while we talk. I will invite you to notice sensations, impulses and emotions underneath the words. We move slowly and in small pieces, so your nervous system can settle instead of bracing. Most first sessions are mostly orientation.
Signs You Might Benefit From Somatic Work
You do not need a trauma history for somatic work to help you. It tends to help when you feel anxious, chronically stressed, disconnected from your emotions or from your body, when you keep pleasing people at your own expense, or when setting a boundary feels impossible. Those are signals, not diagnoses.
