Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns (Even After Years of Inner Work)
If you’ve done years of therapy or personal development but still find yourself repeating the same emotional patterns, it may not be because you need more insight. Often, your body is still holding the same protective patterns. Somatic work helps create lasting change by changing the way your body responds—not just the way your mind understands. What Keeps Us Stuck Isn’t Always What We Think This week with clients, we explored the power of the shapes we take. This has been on
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Done Therapy, Still Stuck?
You’ve done the work. You’ve talked about the childhood wounds. You understand your triggers. You can name the patterns while they’re happening. And still — the same reactions keep showing up. You shut down. Overthink. People-please. Collapse. Explode. Freeze. Hold back what you really want to say. At some point, it becomes exhausting to understand yourself so deeply and still feel trapped inside the same loops. Not because therapy failed. And not because you’re broken. Many
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Finding the Pain Beneath Emotional Triggers (How I could have ruined my birthday 🥴 )
How to work with triggers, reactions, and emotions somatically. What Emotional Triggers Are Really Pointing To One of the most powerful things I know is that as bodies we have the capacity to drop underneath the pattern, the reaction, the trigger (whatever you want to call it) and meet what’s underneath as a body, therefore freeing ourselves. What the heck does that mean? Most people try to manage emotional triggers without understanding the emotional patterns underneath the
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