Healing what we don’t know is “wrong” (somatic approach)

🔸There are receptors inside your organs.
These receptors send information about the inside of your body to your brain.

🔸This information helps to regulate vital functions, such as body temperature, hunger, thirst, digestion and heart rate.

🔸It also helps you understand and feel what is going on inside your own body, including your emotions.

🌟 We call this Interoception 🌟

When there is a history of developmental trauma and/or some shock traumas, your brain may have difficulties recognising this crucial data.

If you have a low degree of interoception you can find it hard to experience and to interpret your emotions, because you can’t connect and/or tolerate the sensations that accompany them.

As a result you may snap, over react or misinterpret your emotions altogether.

Low interoception can also be linked to difficulties in perceiving basic bodily cues, such as hunger and thirst.

For instance, you may overeat, because you don’t understand (on a bodily level) satiety. Or you may eat too little, because you cannot appropriately feel cues of hunger.

When interoception is ruptured you will not even know or notice it, because you can’t gauge or make sense of something you have never experienced before.

“We don’t know what we don’t know.”

The work I offer addresses this crucial piece of the healing puzzle, plus many nuances around this theme. It’s profound because it goes in deep places in the system, places that your cognition can’t reach.

Contrary to popular belief of quick fixes with somatic exercises, transforming your interoception will take specialised space holding, patience, right amount of titration and guidance.

This is the type of work I enjoy offering. My 1:1 and group sessions always address interoception, amongst other important “ hidden” elements of healing.

If you are keen to go deeper, beyond your cognition, I’m here for it! ☺️