Dedeker Winston is a relationship coach, writer, podcast host, and advocate for polyamory. She is a somatic-practitioner-in-training, and joins us to introduce another therapeutic intervention method for you to consider on your recovery journey. Somatic experiencing is all about bodily sensations. It ties together both our physical and psychological experiences to guide our nervous system through its trauma response and into healing. Not all practitioners come from psychiatry, with some having backgrounds in physical therapy, dance, or being a chiropractor. One of the things that draws people — including myself — to this method of intervention is that you do not have to talk about your trauma. Instead, its main focus is understanding what it means to feel things in our bodies, and to stop the feedback loop of body sensations triggering trauma responses that then trigger body sensations.

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