Connecting To Our Own Bodies
The more we cultivate our own embodied awareness, the more confidently and compassionately we can support our clients in doing the same.
The more we cultivate our own embodied awareness, the more confidently and compassionately we can support our clients in doing the same.
I’m a somatic therapist and an intellectualizer—I can hide in my head with the best of them, but I’m learning to come back to my body, my emotions, and my full self.
When we stop trying to ‘fix’ our clients and instead return to presence, we access the clarity, creativity, and compassion that actually move therapy forward.”
Working with boundaries somatically can be a powerful way to help clients develop an embodied and felt experience of their own space and limits. Here are four exercises that help clients develop boundaries and take them into “real life”.