Thinking & feeling beings

Here’s what a lot of trauma work gets wrong.

We are both thinking AND feeling beings. Not one or the other - both.

When trauma (big T or little t) happens in childhood, our divine essence is thwarted. The trauma isn’t simply stored in the body. It creates a fingerprint-specific experience that touches every part of who we are.

Our mind gives it meaning - creating vocabulary, stories and beliefs about what happened.

Our sense of self - the “I Am” - becomes intertwined with the experience. We start to identify ourselves through a particular lens, or set of lenses.

Our relationship with the world shifts. How we see others, how we expect to be treated, how we move through life.

Our body stores it all. Our nervous system responds. Defense mechanisms kick in. They all clump together into one complex, totally unique experience.

Somatic work gets part of it right, but not the full depth. Not the complete intensity of how trauma lives in the totality of our being.

This is why real healing requires deepening into ALL of it - mind, body, identity, and everything in between.