Somatic Work

“Achieving” contact with the Soul via its language - symbol - is proof of a body beginning to regulate and become an integrated, habitable whole again.

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

The Soul is re-associating and coming back, and it sends messages that can be clearly experienced, especially while in the medicine.

Images of transformation, wholeness and integration arise at this point - as well as more intense, challenging, bizarre or transcendental images - images that were very moving for me to witness when they did arise.

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Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

All this must be titrated - again the job of the therapeutic container - to ensure that the nervous system of the individual does not become flooded - in effect, by truth.

Because we have a tendency to rush in our culture, there is a very real risk of getting to this stage and undoing all progress by rushing into material and feeling too much, too f... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

gotta go slow to go “fast” (i.e. the most healing speed for one’s nervous system)

““Why do so many people have difficulty in breathing fully and easily? The answer is that breathing creates feelings, and people are afraid to feel. They are afraid to feel their sadness, their anger, and their fear.””

— Alexander Lowen

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

Most people tend to miss that it’s actually the BODY driving what happens in the mind as much as the other way around.

So by focusing on the body, we over time can create a mind that is a nicer place to be.

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

trauma is not the event, but the response to the event.

People can believe they have mentally or verbally processed an event, but the nervous system doesn’t respond to words.

Talk therapy doesn’t touch trauma at a deep level.

It’s like the nervous system needs proof - on a physiological level - that the body is allowed to relax and unguard.

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

If we have a regulated nervous system, we can access, process, and release material that was previously unavailable to us, thus creating space for a closer relationship with Self.

Ketamine is an effective front-line tool in therapy if understood as primarily creating a safe place in the body for deeper work to occur.

Ketamine can assist with a return... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

The original trauma was “too much.”

The Soul dissociates from the body and stays that way in an effort to get away from the “too much.”

This is also called Soul Loss - the Soul is at a distance, because to fully inhabit the body is not possible.

There is too much static in the body.

Anxiety and depression very often are then “just” secondary symptoms ... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

trauma isn’t necessarily the event - it’s our reaction to the event being “too much” and therefore we (the ego) find coping mechanisms. IFS parts explains this beautifully