Tag: body

Trauma release – why a mind-body approach is essential

According to psychotherapist and author Eugene Gendlin PhD, traumatic experiences are stored in the body. In fact, all your accumulated life experiences, including traumatic events whether large or small, are held in various parts of your physical body and re-accessed through what he calls the ‘felt sense’. Unconscious factors affecting the body keep the traumatized […]

Discovering my authentic self

I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of having. And it’s all the product of my unchecked mind. My healing starts with focusing first on the discomfort I feel in my body and expressing that to myself. When I choose not to […]