Category: Trauma & Therapy

5 Tips For Learning Self-Regulation

Learning self-regulation is expanding the ability for staying present with difficult emotions in the body, including their accompanying physical sensations. Dan Siegel, a clinical professor...

The Nervous System: Why It’s Relevant

Understanding how the nervous system works is an important element of somatic therapy. Below is a brief overview of the different divisions, as well as...

Healing From Sexual Abuse: Tips For Women

Instances of sexual abuse are prominent in our culture, and are experienced by people of all genders, not just women. For experiences more specific to...

Tantra Helped Me After My Prostatectomy

The Prostatectomy In April 2018, I discovered that I had prostate cancer. I had no symptoms; it was discovered by an astute GP whilst investigating...

Polyvagal Theory Application in Bodywork

In this Guest Blog, Candy at Arras Healing explores the basics of Polyvagal Theory and how we can incorporate these teachings into bodywork, such as...

10 Tips For Dealing With Anxiety

Anxiety is a common feeling which we have all experienced at times. It is the body’s way of alerting us to situations which may be...

Embracing the Shadow

What is the Shadow? The term Shadow was brought to the Western culture by such psychiatrists as Carl Jung, who was in part influenced by...