Trauma Integration & Erotic Exploration through a Somatic Lens
When was the last time you slowed down and really listened to your body?
Embodiment, recovery, and integration start with listening to our bodies and our hearts. Our bodies hold so much, from past experiences to present challenges to the possibility of pleasure. Our bodies remember the traumatic experiences we have endured and hold the key to releasing them as well.
Trauma is getting a lot of attention these days, but what does it really mean? Any experience that is overwhelming for our nervous system is traumatic, but not all traumatic experiences become stuck trauma in our bodies. The difference is in our relationship to what happened including: how we process it, our emotions about it, and when or if we integrate it.
Whether your stuck trauma comes from a single incident, childhood attachment experiences, adult relationships, experiences of oppression, familial or societal expectations, or a mixture of any or all of these, we can work together to support your growth and transformation.
I can help you identify stuck patterns in your relationships with yourself, others, and the world and give you tools so you can get unstuck. Through utilizing somatic praxis, emotional awareness, and pleasure and weaving them together with the latest in trauma treatment, neurobiology, and attachment theory, we can focus on strategies and techniques to understand your self and your emotions in a way that is productive and meaningful to your life.
I can support you in designing the type of life you want to live, the type of person you want to be, and the type of relationships you want to have. I can support you through the process of becoming more you.
Through fully embracing our own erotic experiences of pleasure we are given access to possibility and choice.
My work intentionally and explicitly includes sexuality and the erotic, because so many others do not. It is my belief that desire and pleasure are fundamental to our being alive, which can include sexual pleasure, but does not have to.
So many of us are overwhelmed, numb, hopeless, and starved of the deep connection we crave. The antidote is inhabiting our bodies, feeling deeply, embracing our complexity, owning our pleasure, and reaching for connection and community.
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.
-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power