Somatic Experiencing® is a trauma-healing modality that uses "bottom-up" approach, working directly with the biology of your nervous system and your body.  

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"Trauma" in this context can mean anything from severe PTDS to any automatic patterns of reaction and behavior, no matter how mild, from which you would like to free yourself.  It also includes physical manifestations (pain, tension, disease) that have roots in patterns that are held by your nervous system.

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To use a tech analogy, SE is like throwing more CPU power and more memory onto your device so your apps can run better and smoother.  But, because the "device" here is a living, breathing system (you!), new and better programs spontaneously evolve and develop simply because you have better hardware to host them.

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I love SE because, as a Pragmatic Engineer, I like things that are effective and that WORK.  And SE works.  It works in weird, unusual and cool ways, bypassing the endless rumination of thought and instead unlocking the easy clarity that seems so obvious, because it comes from your center.

 

I won't bore you with theory and science behind SE (use the internets if you're curious), but I invite you to try a session and allow yourself the joy of surprise!

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