Do you have many strange symptoms that no one knows how to help? do you have night terrors, nightmares, or insomnia? are you always “on guard”? sensitive to light and sound? do you have a hard time making bonds with others, or giving/receiving love? do you feel something awful is going to happen soon? do you have what could be psychosomatic symptoms like headaches, PMS, asthma, fibromyalgia, high anxiety, depression, unable to sit still or relax? Do you feel frozen? unbearably shy?go to alcohol and other substances to fend off unpleasant memories? have a huge amount of anger?
These are some of the many symptoms that can be experienced by persons who have been through traumatic events and have not known how to release the vital survival energy that was thwarted at the time of trauma. This energy stays in the nervous system and fascia connective tissue and can hide for decades. It surfaces when it is activated by events that somehow are similar to the first traumatic event by manifesting these painful symptoms.
But as Peter Levine says in Waking the Tiger, “Trauma does not have to be a life sentence. THROUGH SOMATIC EXPERIENCING TRAUMA RELEASE work, the frozen energies can melt. Both cognitive and emotive therapy is also used to help assimilate the many insights and sensations that may come up in the body-mind healing sessions.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO FEEL WHOLE AGAIN, POSSIBLE TO NOT HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME MANAGING SYMPTOMS, POSSIBLE TO FEEL CONNECTED WITH LIFE, EXPERIENCE JOY AND MEANING.