Somatic Work

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

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

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

At best my people had time for very small post-session integration activities like journalling, introducing 10 minutes of mindfulness, or increasing exercise by going for a walk every lunch break.

Rushing and speed in most people’s lives left little room for actually getting to the root of issues and being able to solve them at the depth required.

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

““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

Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more

Integration is misunderstood. Most people don’t know what it really means.

It’s not just about mentalizing an experience.

The best integration is an embodied action, often simultaneously symbolic, communicating back to the unconscious that the message has been received, and is now being integrated.

That’s why I would always tell my client that “integr... See more

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

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