Category: Trauma & Therapy

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...

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...

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...

Trauma can be incredibly difficult to live with and heal from. This said, many people do manage to overcome their past experiences and grow as...

How is Somatic Sex Therapy Different to Traditional Sex Therapy? Somatic sex therapy is referred to by different names, such as somatic sexology, sexological bodywork,...

Emotional expression during a session is called abreaction. According to the online Oxford dictionary, an abreaction is “the expression and consequent release of a previously...

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...

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...

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...

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...