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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
- I sit with the sensation and nothing bad happens, but my brain never seems to draw the conclusion from it
- My child can’t seem to name what they’re feeling
- 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 (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 - 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 - Build mindsight by reflecting inner experience
Describe your own inner experience in everyday conversation to build the child’s "mind-seeing" capacity.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - 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 - Ground and orient to the present
Use feet, contact, and a slow look around the room to re-anchor in the safe here-and-now.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Tracking shadow material through the body
Notice where in the body suppressed reactions live — tension, constriction, or deadness are somatic shadow clues.
Shadow Work - 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. - Ground in the present when the past intrudes
Use the senses and the room to signal "that was then, this is now" when memory floods the body.
The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
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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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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 As A Parent
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 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.
- 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.
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