Sublime

carefully graded, expression of our instinctive responses will allow the traumatic state to loosen its hold on the sufferer.

This capacity is especially important when we are frightened or injured.

Somatic Experiencing developed by Peter Levine, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden, and the work of Bessel van der Kolk.

On the “cellular level” the body perceives that it has sustained a wound serious enough to place it in mortal danger.

The only way to consciously access our healing resources is through sensation and the felt sense.

Trauma is not a disease, he points out, but rather a human experience rooted in survival instincts.