Becoming a Home Body
Listening to Body
At Home Body Counseling, there is a big emphasis on using your body as a guide & tool in therapy. Our bodies are always communicating with us whether we are aware of it or not. Bringing awareness to what we feel in our bodies is an important first step to learning how to manage anxiety & distress within us.
When emotional energy or unresolved trauma gets stuck in our bodies, we may experience feeling anxious, overwhelmed, panicked, or on edge, and be confused by it. By slowing down & allowing space for our feelings, we can release accumulated energy & create calm.
Our body has the innate ability to heal, survive, & connect when we slow down to witness with curiosity & compassion. By resolving what’s embedded in our bodies (& physiology), we can change the messaging from one of threat to safety, or uncomfortable to comfortable.
Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.
— Byron Katie
Listening to Parts
Many of us carry wounds from our lived experiences. Maybe you didn’t feeling loved, protected, nurtured, seen, or understood as a child or in a relationship. Maybe you weren’t given the tools or support needed for making sense of your feelings, or it wasn’t safe to take up space in your family, friendships, or community.
As a result, protective parts of ourselves developed in service of survival & caring for ourselves in the best ways we knew how to get our needs met. And to make sure we didn’t feel that way again.
However, we may find that these protective parts continue to show up in means of protection & safety that once served us in the past, but are no longer serving us today.
With understanding comes gratitude for our parts for the creative ways they helped us survive. It is up to us to unburden them from continuing in their past roles, for us to take the lead now.
Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, & Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Ego States Therapy/ Parts Work