Trauma stores in the body
Trauma is not what happened to you. Think about it: two people who experience a similar event will have different responses. Trauma is what happens inside of you as a result of what happened to you. What happens inside of you can take many different forms: a nervous system that's chronically in fight/flight/freeze mode, trouble sleeping, lack of trust, finding it difficult to be open to the world, feeling like you can't breath properly. Whatever shape it takes; you're moving through life differently than before the trauma.
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What happens inside you, is as much a physical process as it is of the mind. That's because trauma stores in the body. Imagine a 1,5 year old being separated for a few months from their mother. By the time this child is an adult, they might suffer separation anxiety. Even though as an adult, they can't recall the anxiety of being separated from the mom as a child , the memory of it still gets triggered. So even when you can't recall certain events, your nervous system still remembers those events.
To release trauma, it's therefore essential to not only work with emotional processing through the mind, but through the body as well.
A significant limitation of many mental health treatments is that they work solely with the mind, which makes them incomplete and can result in years of therapy.
To break free from trauma, it's essential to work with the body through practices like bodywork, breathwork, somatic experiencing and yoga on top of your talking therapy.
I've successfully worked with people with severe anger issues, severe autism, depression, adhd, anxiety, one-off traumatic experiences, etc
My journey into helping clients release trauma started with Thai massage. Regularly I would have clients in which a lot of emotion would surface. Over the years I learned to read the cues of the body on stored emotions, how to hold space, build trust and facilitate the body to release these emotions. I learned what physical release the body needs for the nervous system to go back into it's ventral state and for the breath to flow freely again. Thai massage started becoming a foundation of my work in trauma release, from which I take clients into 1:1 yoga programs to help their physical body to stay open, followed by therapeutic coaching, based on Gabor Mates trauma-informed therapy 'Compassionate Inquiry', to release trauma holistically.
When I get the chance to meet clients in-person, I take them through the holistic approach of bodywork, yoga and coaching. Whenever I only see clients via zoom I use 1:1 yoga and coaching blended with spiritual practices. In these sessions I help you reconnect to your body, helping you to recognize what happens in the body when your mind is triggered, and exploring ways to release this physical sensations. You'll find that once the physical sensations dissolve, so does the tension in the mind.