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Play Episode 17 Here When listening to a trauamtic storyline an SEP’s questions and reflections influence what a client pays attention to. Here is a simple map to help guide your responses to different categories of story elements. From “I […]

Play Episode 16 Here The first sign of something being different is often the start of a trail worth following (for as long as it provides good “information scent”). Things that stand out are a call to our attention. Here

Play Episode 15 Here We can focus our attention on any number of things…the worst case scenario, what’s “off”, what we still have left to do. We can also choose one of my favorites: Cheering for things when they’re in

Play Episode 14 Here Around the time that chronic troubles begin backing off people have the opportunity of getting on “The Upward Trend.” It’s a nervous system thing as much as anything else but it’s nice to talk about some of

Play Episode 13 Here Staying in the Session can be difficult when you start thinking “I’m not going to be able to do Somatic Experiencing with this person.” Banish the thought! Stay in the Session, that’s the only way to

Summary: One of the challenges being in “distress” or having the symptoms that go along with trauma and nervous system dis-regulation is that things feel “off” and “weird”. That makes things challenging since SE follows a kind of logic that suggests that at some level, those uncomfortable feelings are part of what needs to be “felt” and “experienced.” Helping our clients come to a sufficiently participatory place with such feelings is a critical element of the work that we do and of the help that we offer. And it’s one reason why our client’s need us (for now).

Play Episode 11 Here Daily life probably has some kind of balance between Positive and Negative experiences where, more or less, the ideal is that we can swing between our impressions of them both. Spend enough time around danger and

Play Episode 10 Here Teachers of complex crafts like Somatic Experiencing come in all different styles and capacities for explaining their own process. But none of them can ever name everything they’re doing, nor should they. Part of learning the

Play Episode 9 Here We’ll spend hours a week sitting in similar positions to people who are actively seeking therapy because they’re in distress. That means we’ll spend hours a week in the postures of distress which are not otherwise

Play Episode 8 Here One focus of this project is to answer questions I receive from SE people about our work. This time I’m working off 3 questions: Why does it take so long to learn SE? Did I do