PTSD-Meeting our Shadow Sides

I am aware of what constitutes PTSD from a physiological place. Living where safety doesn't exist at any regular interval like a war zone we know through the Poly Vagal theory that keeps our fight, flight or freeze activation churning never resting. This physiological dynamic traps our psyches to live in the past while our bodies are in the present.

What if the other component is touching in on our dark sides and not being able to reconcile with them? We all have shadow sides, and given the right circumstances can respond in ways that are barbaric or violent. Our shadow self, combined with the inability to find safety, sets a person up for considerable psychological and physiological harm.

“Treating PTSD with modalities that create safety in the body and grace in the psyche is life-changing. ”

Somatic psychotherapy adds the element of making friends with our shadow sides to relieve some of the most challenging factors of PTSD. Mindfulness, Biodynamic cranial sacral, breathing, and learning to sit with the places we don't want to shed light on are all available to us through Somatic Psychotherapy.

If you or someone you love has PTSD, please reach out and call.

I know from experience that mending the mind and the body together is a way out.

Free Somatic therapy consultations always available.