03/09/2026
This past weekend, I had the amazing opportunity to take the Digging Roots 1.0 Brainspotting Training for Developmental Trauma by Steve Sawyer, LCSW. Brainspotting is a type of somatic therapy that utilizes eye positions to process and release stored emotional pain, and I love using it in my clinical work (especially when it come to folks with food allergies, medical trauma, or relational trauma). I have completed Phase 1 & Phase 2 Brainspotting trainings with another trainer and loved them, so I was so excited (albeit, a little nervous) to take this when my wonderful mentor and friend .your.story encouraged me to do it.
Let me just say, wow. I learned so much about the neuroscience of trauma and attachment, got to experience my own profound healing firsthand, and witness so many other people’s. This type of Brainspotting is life-changing. It gets to the roots of present-day symptoms and allows folks to move through “the storm” with an attuned therapist, rather than running away from it or just trying to stay on the surface.
I share this to remind you that you can connect with your innate capacity to heal and you have all that you need inside of you. I also share this to encourage my other therapist friends to look into this specific training and technique, to express gratitude to everyone involved for the transformative learning and healing I received, and to share that I am so LUCKY to get to do this work for a living and witness people’s healing. 💛✨
As a sidenote, this song (The Suburbs by Arcade Fire) was one of my favorites growing up and it’s one I’ve always listened to during different periods of loss or transition. It spontaneously came on today while I was driving home and shuffled my whole library and resonated. Felt like I was moving past/through “the feeling” this weekend 🥲
