Somatic Therapy by Bailey Morgan

Somatic therapy is the act of healing traumas through the body. Trauma sends the body into a fight, flight, or freeze response. Somatic therapy uses mind-body techniques to regulate the nervous system and create safety within the body. Once the body feels safe, deeper healing can take place. However, without the proper tools, these trauma responses stay within the body, keeping the body in a state of dysregulation. 

Fight looks like getting irritated easily, using fighting words, feeling angry, an elevated heart rate, and feeling warm. 

Flight looks like avoidance, escaping, running away, staying constantly busy, putting focus on others and having the desire to move or travel. 

Freeze can look like dissociation, feeling unmotivated, doom scrolling, feeling foggy, uninterested in daily activities, and feeling fatigued. 

Somatic therapy uses these body sensations to gain more insight on the emotions hiding behind the sensations in the body. The body both hides and holds onto emotions. Somatic therapy uses regulation tools to get out of a trauma response and back into feeling safe and connected within the body. Safety promotes healing.