IN MY WORDS
Embodied Processing is a gentle and grounded method of experiencing emotional body states in a safe container.
We are all weighed down by unprocessed experiences in our lives, things we did not have the capacity or the support to feel in the moment for one reason or another.
These unprocessed traumas are infused in our system and hidden in our shadow; they influence our personal relationships and our self-talk. They are the reason we keep getting sucked into the same toxic patterns of behaviour and attachment.
The key to freeing ourselves from the grip of our trauma is to allow ourselves to feel the root of our unprocessed emotions.
With EP, you do not have to walk this journey alone.
Together we will build your internal capacity to experience safety, and to experience trigger.
We will explore parts of yourself with fresh insight, curiosity, compassion and clarity.
We will build your toolkit of nervous system regulation so that you can believe in your own ability to cope, whatever the story or situation.
Embodied Processing is not about fixing, because you are not broken. It is a sobering journey of reunion with your severed parts, and building your capacity to courageously walk the world in your wholeness.
FROM MY TEACHERS
THE CENTRE FOR HEALING,
AUSTRALIA
"Embodied processing is an evidence informed, integrative and holistic approach to embodied transformation, designed to work with the whole human from the bottom up, top down and inside out. We incorporate and draw inspiration from many cutting edge modalities and neurosciencists including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges), NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), NeuroAffective Touch (NATouch), Internal Family Systems (IFS), The Diamond Approach (Open Ended Inquiry), Compassionate Inquiry (CI) and more.
EP is a somatic & psycho-spiritual modality that is grounded in both the latest neuroscience as well as the ancient healing traditions. The process helps us to draw on the body’s innate intelligence to discharge stress, heal, and return to homeostasis. By guiding ourselves and our clients to meet ourselves at the roots, exactly as we are; transformation happens on its own.
Stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, overwhelm, people pleasing, dysfunctional relationship patterns, self sabotage, low self esteem, chronic pain…
All of this has roots that live as contracted stress in our body which dysregulates our nervous system, causing suffering and pain in our daily lives. Although talk therapy can be very beneficial when it comes to the wounds from unprocessed adverse experience it doesn't touch the stress that is stored in the body, just like talking about a broken leg will not help it find resolution.
When we are working primarily with the thinking mind by reframing, cognizing, pathologizing, diagnosing and looking for intellectual bandaids, when it comes to emotional wounding these practices can only assist as coping strategies and keeping the underlying pain out of consciousness, without bringing about any true or deep transformation.
Embodied Processing is a technique which is used to safely meet and digest the underlying wounds, which is what often hides behind and is the driving force of many of our surface symptoms."