Claudia Black Instagram – With PTSD comes a lot of trapped energy in the body that is wanting to move. In fact, that’s really what ptsd is; stuck energy with its own intelligence; it loops because it’s trying to get our attention. It’s trying to move, to find an exit.
•If you’re like me, you don’t want to feel or re-experience the discomfort or pain that’s trapped, so absent the right tools we can slip into habits of numbing and/ or dissociating in ways that are not sustainable long term.
•For years I carried a lot of bracing in my muscles and a lot of undigested freeze in my soma.
•I have learned there are tools that can facilitate thawing my freeze. And they don’t have to break the bank.
•Heat is a big resource for me— Epsom salt baths, using an infrared sauna, building a fire. Body heat is a fave though obviously during covid, touch for me, and many others has been scarce.
•My body yearns for the heat so much I would sit *in* my fire pit directly *on* my fire if I could do it safely. So I get as close as I can, and I rotate my body like I’m on a spit, and I slow roast my way back to comfort, embodiment and wholeness. /1 Continued in comments.
•Fire as a Resource / Tool at the Nervous System level:
When we are healing from traumas, attending to the body and what’s trapped in it can be overwhelming, and being in pain in our bodies can feel super lonely . So we need loving tools that can be administered in a titrated fashion— little by little— so as not to take us back into the overwhelm, and ideally help us to not feel so alone in our suffering.
•In Somatic Experiencing, Resources are a wonderful way to help clients ease back into the body and support it to do what it is designed to do: flush out tension.
•External resources are anything that make us feel a sense of aliveness, or more expansive, grounded, perhaps a feeling of relative safety ( after many years of our nervous system likely not experiencing or knowing safety). Resources can be found in nature, music, books, friends etc. /1 continued in comments | Posted on 29/Sep/2021 04:42:44
