Your Body Unlocked: Somatic Experience Therapy with Brandi Babb

  The more I learn about the mind-body connection, the more I want to know about harnessing the power of bodywork to better serve my clients. This is where my friend and fellow coach Brandi Babb comes in. She is currently a somatic experience therapist in training. This means she is in tune with how and where the body stores trauma and stress, and how releasing these trauma and stress responses, through bodywork, can help us toward peace and wholeness.  The most common and straightforward form of somatic therapy is known as somatic experience therapy. In this therapy, patients discuss their problems as in other forms of mental wellness therapy. Rather than just talk about them, somatic therapists guide patients to focus on their underlying physical sensations. From there, the mind-body exercises may include breath work, meditation, visualization, massage, grounding, dance, and/or sensation awareness work. In this episode of the podcast, Brandi shares her personal journey with somatic therapy and the methodology she is learning through the work of Dr. Peter Levine. We talked about:   Who might benefit from this therapy? Nervous System Regulation  Understanding the 'freeze state' How alcohol shows up as a 'state changer' Noticing our own bodily responses Self-regulation and self-resourcing: expanding capacity Her personal journey with an eating disorder The brain, safety and emotional regulation Show Notes HERE