Play Episode 83 Here There’s a classic moment in SE sessions when a client is successfully moving through the activation cycle only to balk at allowing the discharge or deactivation phase because it “feels too weird” and indeed often times […]
Play Episode 82 Here An unrestrained reverie episode considering the mythical, idealized and probably impossible Perfect Therapeutic Island. Includes a look at when it would be necessary to go there, what would make it ideal, and words of encouragement on
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Play Episode 81 Here Practically speaking, when every knew sensation is a threat there are things that SE Practitioners need to do in order to enable success rather than recapitulate the feeling of pain, failure, or the impossibility for change.
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Play Episode 80 Here Sometimes pain is the overriding signal in a client’s experience. Try as we might there’s simply not much ease or goodness to be found. In this episode I start to look into what we can do
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Play Episode 79 Here Challenged sleep is a psycho-historical phenomenon of the times in which we live. It’s also a very real and personal experience for many of our clients. Being able to think and talk about sleep from multiple
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Play Episode 78 Here One paradox in our SE work is the need to engage the “problem state” or “Red/Trauma Vortex” material and at the same time avoid it becoming too much of itself. Some of us get quite good
078: Don’t Avoid the Text See More »
Play Episode 77 Here Our SE sessions are made up of dozens, if not hundreds, of elements of experience encountered in the moment. Part of our task as SE Practitioners is to help clients thread their attention through these elements
077: Will this Be an I Can or I Can’t Moment? See More »
As SE practitioner we often either accompany or prepare our clients for stressful events. Things like surgeries, court battles, conflicted meetings with family or employers and so on. These inherently stressful events can be hard on anyone and are especially
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Play Episode 75 Here Along the path of learning something as dynamic as Somatic Experiencing is extended time repeating and mimicking other peoples words, voice, rhythm and presentation. This “copy cat time” is probably necessary. There are so many patterns in our
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Play Episode 74 Here The consistency of our signal and feedback to our clients is key to helping them get to know us and our work quickly. The more random, confused or inconsistent our requests the harder it is for
074: Helping Clients Get to Know You Quickly See More »