67: What Is Somatic Yoga Therapy For Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)?

Do you find yourself struggling with fight, flight, and freeze symptoms? Somatic yoga therapy for CPTSD with Katie Ziskind, yoga therapist, helps you understand how CPTSD symptoms impact married life. Sex and physical intimacy can be impacted by a history of emotional abuse, sexual trauma, and neglect. As well, having sex may being out shame, guilt, fears of inadequacy, sadness, loss, and anger. Sexual activity can trigger traumatic memories or flashbacks, making intimacy distressing or even intolerable. This can result in avoidance of sexual activity. One of the primary benefits of loving-kindness meditation for CPTSD survivors is its ability to cultivate self-compassion. Many individuals with CPTSD struggle with feelings of shame, self-criticism, and unworthiness due to past traumas. Loving kindness meditation helps them develop a kinder and more accepting attitude towards themselves. To note, this is done by offering phrases of love, kindness, and forgiveness. Working with Katie Ziskind, a somatic yoga therapist, can be highly beneficial for individuals healing from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Her approach integrates various somatic practices that target the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of trauma. She offers techniques such as mindfulness meditation, gentle yoga poses, guided breathing, and more. Katie Ziskind, somatic yoga therapist, helps individuals develop essential skills for managing their symptoms and fostering long-term recovery. Yoga therapy can be done in individual sessions or in couples sessions. Yoga therapy is a somatic therapy that supports trusting yourself. Self-trust is something that goes away during trauma and loss. Trauma takes away your ability to listen to your intuition to emotionally regulate. After trauma, you are constantly in a state of flight, fight, and freeze trauma responses. From the process of somatic yoga therapy, you can gradually build trust. Through repeated practice, survivors learn to treat themselves with the same warmth and understanding they would offer to a loved one, fostering a deeper sense of self-compassion and acceptance. Somatic yoga therapy for complex post traumatic stress disorder recovery and CPTSD somatic counseling with Katie Ziskind, yoga therapist, supports self-love. This helps reduce self-criticism and improve resilience. Mindfulness techniques can help individuals regulate their emotions, manage stress, and reduce reactivity, creating a more stable and grounded foundation for emotional intimacy and connection with their partner. Somatic yoga therapy focuses on the mind-body connection, helping individuals release tension and trauma held in the body through gentle movement, breathwork, and mindfulness. Katie Ziskind, holistic somatic yoga therapist, guides clients through somatic yoga practices tailored to their specific needs, helping them reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and release emotional blockages that may be impacting their intimacy and relationship dynamics. Katie Ziskind is a sex positive, LGBTQIA+, queer affirming relationship coach, certified sex therapy informed professional, and Gottman level two trained marriage specialist. The “All Things Love and Intimacy” podcast is intended to help you feel more comfortable talking about emotional expression, gain emotional intimacy skills, and feel confident talking about your sexual needs, sexual expectations, erotic desires, and fantasies with your partner or partners. Katie Ziskind loves helping couples break cycles of emotional distance and sexual avoidance, and develop emotional connection and rebuild sexual desire and sexual intimacy. She would love to help you in sex positive, relationship coaching sessions.  You can build an emotionally secure, loving, playful, and passionate bond and healthy sex life by working with her at WisdomWithinCt.com. This episode is no replacement for seeking professional help.