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10/14/2025

Somatic Therapy: Coming Home to the Body

“I know it’s over, but I still feel on edge.”
“It’s like my body doesn’t believe I’m safe yet.”
“I feel disconnected from myself.”

Healing isn’t just about insight—it’s about the body, too. Somatic therapy honours that our stories live not only in the mind but in the muscles, breath, and nervous system. Our bodies carry memories, adaptations, and wisdom—and with the right support, they also carry the potential for healing.

What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy blends talk therapy with body awareness, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation. It invites you to notice sensations, tension, and movement—listening to how emotions live in the body.
These subtle shifts create change that’s felt, not just thought.

Why the Body Matters
When we’ve faced overwhelm or trauma, the body may numb or tighten to protect us. Even when life feels “safe,” our nervous system may still act as if it isn’t. Somatic therapy helps re-pattern these automatic responses—building safety, regulation, and self-trust.

What Sessions Include:

Body Awareness: Tracking sensations, breath, posture

Pendulation & Titration: Moving gently between safety and activation

Resourcing: Building internal and external supports

Movement & Expression: Releasing what was once held back

Co-Regulation: Healing through a grounded, attuned relationship

Who It’s For:
Anyone wanting deeper self-connection or relief from anxiety, stress, disconnection, or trauma.

Somatic therapy isn’t about fixing you—it’s about helping you feel more you: grounded, connected, and at home in your body.
The body remembers — and it can also heal.

Aarushi Tiku, RP, an expert in somatic therapy, is accepting virtual clients across Ontario.
Her work helps you reconnect with your body, release stored tension, and feel grounded again.

Reach out to us. We can help.

evolve Psychotherapy & Consulting Group Inc.
therapy@evolvegroupinc.net
P: 519-639-4698
www.evolvegroupinc.net

10/14/2025

Most of us try to get rid of painful thoughts:
“I shouldn’t feel this way.”
“Stop overthinking.”
“Just move on.”

But here’s what neuroscience shows us—
the more you fight a thought, the louder your brain makes it.

That’s because your amygdala interprets that inner struggle as danger, and your prefrontal cortex—the part that helps you regulate—temporarily shuts down.

So instead of calming your mind, you end up reliving the same emotional loop.

Those thoughts that keep looping aren’t random.
Many were formed in moments when your brain was trying to protect you.

That’s why healing isn’t about forcing positive thoughts—it’s about changing how you relate to what arises inside you. When you meet a thought with curiosity instead of judgment, you send a powerful signal to your body: “I’m safe now.”

Your body doesn’t know the difference between an external threat and an internal one. So if you meet your thoughts with fear or frustration, your brain reads that as danger— and your amygdala, the part that scans for threat, amplifies the sense of threat.

But when you pause, breathe, and simply notice what’s happening—without trying to fix or silence it—your nervous system receives a different message.

The amygdala quiets.
The prefrontal cortex—responsible for reasoning, reflection, and choice—comes back online.
And that’s where neuroplasticity begins.

Your brain starts building new connections that link awareness with safety instead of threat. Over time, that repetition teaches your mind:

“I can think and feel difficult things without being in danger.”

That’s what true rewiring looks like—not controlling your thoughts, but creating safety inside your relationship with them.

So the next time an old thought shows up— “you’re not enough,” “something bad will happen,” “they’ll leave”— pause. Notice it. Soften your response.

You don’t have to believe it or banish it. You can simply get curious about it—maybe even listen to what it’s trying to protect.

That’s where healing begins.