Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma Quotes

“My body is the home for my experience of the world.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“Researchers have found that the therapeutic alliance between therapist and client is what plays the greatest role in effectiveness of treatment.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“As I began training actors and working directly with students’ bodies, what I repeatedly encountered with my students was somatic memory and unprocessed trauma.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“Remember that the most important part of learning something new or developing new habits is repetition—”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“Somatic therapy pioneer Peter Levine has noted that in trauma situations, the brain acts in two ways that create two different states of being: “survival brain” or “safe brain.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“Somatic therapy uses a variety of exercises to bring flexibility back to your physiological state so that your nervous system is responsive to the present context, as opposed to the threat or overwhelm from the past.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“trauma as something that fragments your sense of self and somatic therapy as something that invites fragmentation to come back into awareness, allowing for recovery and reintegration of those parts of yourself and of your experience that have been out of awareness.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“When you experience something that you perceive as a threat, your body responds by moving into survival mode in order to protect you. However, research bears out that much of the other millions of bits of information that you take in during the traumatic event stay in the body as implicit memory.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“At the core of post-traumatic experience is a somatic state of nervous system overwhelm.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“For some people who experience trauma, the system gets stuck in the “on” position, which can result in an ongoing sense of danger, overstimulation, and an inability to relax.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“somatic experiencing”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“In this text, he introduced the concept of “body armor,” exploring how repressed emotions can affect muscular tension, body posture, and physical movement.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“As students worked in a safe environment with my support, and often the support of a group of other students, they became more aware of tension in their bodies.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection

“students was somatic memory and unprocessed trauma.”
― Jordan Dann LP, Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma: Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection