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How Somatic Therapy Is Changing the Way We Heal...
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The Mind-Body Revolution: How Somatic Therapy Is Changing the Way We Heal
For decades, most people thought of therapy as simply talking about problems. While talking can help, it doesn’t always address how our bodies hold onto stress, pain, and trauma. This is where somatic therapy comes in. It’s a type of therapy that focuses on the connection between the mind and the body, showing us that how we feel isn’t only about our thoughts—it’s also about what we sense physically.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
In somatic therapy, a therapist might guide you to pay attention to your breathing, notice tension in your muscles, or track the physical sensations you feel when talking about a difficult memory. By doing so, you learn to understand and release the stress stored inside you.
Why It Works
Our bodies often carry old aches, flutters, and pains linked to past experiences. Somatic therapy helps people “listen” to these signals, offering a way to heal without words. Many people say they feel lighter, calmer, and more at ease after sessions.
Benefits of Somatic Therapy
Reduced Anxiety: Calming the body can often calm the mind.
Less Physical Tension: Finding and releasing tight spots can ease chronic pain.
Better Mood: When stress leaves the body, many find it easier to feel positive and balanced.
Long-Lasting Change: Addressing both the mind and body may lead to deeper, more lasting healing.
A Growing Movement
As more therapists learn these techniques, somatic therapy is becoming a trusted tool for people seeking a new way to recover from stress, trauma, and emotional challenges. In a world where so many of us carry tension in our shoulders, stomachs, and hearts, somatic therapy offers a simple yet powerful lesson: the body and mind are on the same team. By working with both, we stand a better chance of finding true relief, peace, and well-being.
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About: With these 44 Somatic Therapy coping Skills cards, you will have access to a variety of tools and techniques to process trauma that is stored in the body and help manage difficult emotions. The flashcards include mind-body techniques to release the pent-up tension that's weighing on your emotional and physical well-being. These techniques involve breathing and grounding exercises, meditation, stretching, dance, and other forms of body movement. These cards include Trauma Releasing Exercises. These are a pre-programmed series of movements that often engage the body's natural mechanisms for the release of traumatic stress. Trauma and Tension Release Exercises are a somatic body-based practice for people suffering from stress, anxiety, trauma or PTSD. It doesn't require talking about an event, feeling, or issue, therefore it overcomes the language barriers that can bring up added stress.
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POSITIVE NEWS OF THE DAY
Scientists touted a solution to microplastic pollution
Could a sponge made from cotton and squid ‘bone’ solve one of humanity’s greatest challenges? Scientists in China think so, after the new material was shown to be highly effective at filtering microplastics from water.
In a peer-reviewed study published in Science Advances, the sponge was shown to absorb between 98% and 99.9% of microplastics in water samples taken from China. The material is made from cotton cellulose and chitin, which found in the gladius – a bone-like internal structure – of a squid. According to the University of Wuhan, which led the study, it can be manufactured at scale.
Finding a way to filter microplastics from water is a pressing challenge. Microplastics have been found in the remotest corners of the planet and our bodies, including our brains.
The academics behind the research said the sponge has “great promise … for microplastic remediation”, and plan to carry out further large-scale tests. It comes a fortnight after scientists in Japan unveiled an “environmentally friendly” plastic that dissolves in the sea, and a week after petrostates scuppered a global deal to halt plastic pollution.
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A little reminder that you bring a lot to the table and it’s okay to act like it.
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