Category: CPTSD

Somatic self-love is an alchemical process of bringing our essence down and into our bodies.

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I’m training Sophia the Somatic Self-Love Bot to answer all your burning questions about about somatic self-love, breathwork, body positivity, embodiment, CPTSD alchemy and more… If you leave your email and more than three questions or topics, I will exchange a 45 minute somatic self-love breathwork session with you. Thank you so much and stay…
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Fawning: Sometimes We Need to Practice ‘Caring Less’

Often, people with unresolved trauma go into a fawn response as a coping mechanism. Why is it good for them to practice “caring less”? The “fawn” response is a coping mechanism that individuals with unresolved trauma may use to keep themselves safe in threatening or dangerous situations.  The fawn response involves adapting to the needs…
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Moving Beyond Minimization – How Somatic Self-Love Builds Capacity 

Those of us with unresolved trauma often become experts at developing creative coping mechanisms. That’s because CPTSD often comes from a childhood where we couldn’t fight back or flee the situation. Minimizing the extent of what happened is a valuable technique – it helps us survive until we have enough agency to process and integrate…
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CPTSD – How We Repeat What Is Unresolved and How to Break the Cycle

If you find yourself stuck in a pattern of painful sensations, emotions, feelings, situations, or even relationships, you might be in a cycle of trauma reenactment.  Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is a condition from prolonged trauma exposure. Unlike traditional PTSD, which is triggered by a single traumatic event, CPTSD develops in response to prolonged…
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