12 advantages of Somatic Experiencing (SE) to resolve trauma and chronic stress symptoms

It started with 5, then I struggled to stop myself to cap it at 12. Here it is! ☺️

🔸It’s an organic method. It doesn’t force your body to do things it wasn’t designed to do.

🔸It’s gentle. It works underneath the survival strategy layers, without pushing against them.

🔸It goes at your own pace and you are in control the whole time.

🔸It teaches you to be comfortable in your own skin and it helps you tolerate difficulties that can show up in daily life.

🔸It helps to “discharge” incomplete autonomic responses (fight/flight/freeze/shutdown) from your system.

🔸It’s a non new age method. Very grounded, pragmatic and works directly with the body and nervous system in a tangible way.

🔸It helps your nervous system to reorganise in ways that will yield long lasting results.

🔸There is no need to have conscious memory of all events in one’s life for it to work.

🔸It invites more resilience, capacity and flexibility to your system.

🔸It educates your awareness to recognise different autonomic states within your body, in real time.

🔸it helps you make better choices in the moment to support your system to self-regulate.

🔸It can be done without sharing full details of an issue or stressful event, thus it’s perfect for those of us who struggle with trust and sharing private information.

Have you received SE sessions before? If so, is there anything you would like to add to this list? Please share in the comments.

If you have never tried SE before, feel free to contact me through my website to book an online session.