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- I’m stuck endlessly in my head
- Every time I try to face the hard stuff I go straight at the worst of it to just get it over with, and it floods me
- During the breathing my body locks up
- I can talk about my feelings all day from the neck up, but the real stuff seems to be locked in my body
- When something hurts inside, I get pulled straight into the story of why
Practices that may help
- Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional. - Track body sensation (the felt sense)
Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical
Titration, borrowed from chemistry, describes Peter Levine’s principle of working with overwhelming experience in the smallest possible doses — like adding one drop at a time to avoid a reaction that floods and destabilizes. In somatic practice, titration means touching the edges of a difficult memory, sensation, or emotion briefly before retreating to safety, rather than diving into the whole experience at once. This prevents retraumatization and allows the nervous system to process what was previously too much to digest. - Titration (work in tiny, tolerable doses)
Approach a hard sensation or memory in small sips, not all at once, so you stay regulated.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Allow facilitator bodywork during intense physical activation
Targeted physical contact by a trained sitter helps discharge trapped body tension that the breath activates.
Holotropic Breathwork, Made Practical - Tracking shadow material through the body
Notice where in the body suppressed reactions live — tension, constriction, or deadness are somatic shadow clues.
Shadow Work - Track the felt sense during pendulation
As you move between resource and difficulty, notice how each sensation changes in quality — this tracking is the therapy.
Pendulation, Made Practical - Follow tracking with explicit safety reassurance
After a tracking session, offer the brain a direct safety message about what it just observed.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Body Scan and Session Closure
Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Apply somatic tracking to difficult emotions as well as pain
The same curious, non-fearful attention that retrains pain responses can be applied to emotional sensations in the body.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical
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- Somatic Experiencing Honestly Explained At Work
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- What Is Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Somatic Experiencing Explained
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Somatic Experiencing Honestly Explained In A New Job
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Somatic Experiencing Progress
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Somatic Experiencing Honestly Explained For My Teenager
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
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