09/06/2025
What is "Somatic Experiencing"?
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing trauma, chronic stress, and emotional dysregulation. Developed by Dr. Peter Levine (who basically cracked the code on why humans freeze like a deer in headlights), SE works by helping your nervous system complete the natural fight, flight, or freeze responses that got stuck during overwhelming experiences.
SE addresses the dysregulation happening in the nervous system. The constant tenseness or feeling of ambivalence is a dysregulation in the body. SE is a body-centered treatment approach in which the nervous system is brought into regulation, which means it is functioning how it is designed to function, and the feelings of fight, flight, or freeze are released. It is a safe, gentle, and sustainable way to release trauma, stress, and anxiety that the body is carrying. This approach does not require a reliving of the horrible event or forcing oneself to “push through” the hard moments.
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