Traditionally, seeking help with your mental health means hours of talking and thinking — about your childhood, your romantic life, work and how it all makes you feel. But practitioners of somatic ...

Somatic therapy focuses on the effects of negative emotions, particularly trauma, on the body. Somatic experiencing (SE) is a specific type of somatic therapy. SE cultivates bodily awareness as part ...

Dear Annie: I’m a 45-year-old male and have had many traumatic events in my past, including abuses too bad to name. My problem is, as I was growing up, I was so mistreated that I never learned how to ...

When you think about the most common hobbies, like needlepoint and knitting, so many of them involve hunching over a tiny ...

The aim of somatic therapy is to help people experiencing trauma or chronic stress regulate their nervous system and learn again what it feels like to be safe in their own body, mental health experts ...

Are you a high performer who’s struggling to stay connected: to yourself, to others, or to what truly matters? Do you put your own needs at the very bottom of a never-ending to-do list? Does rest feel ...

Somatic therapy, also called somatic experiencing therapy, is a therapeutic approach that helps you process physical symptoms of trauma, abuse, or stress stored in the body. Somatic therapy can be ...

Before we’re knee-deep together in the world of thought, I’d like you to notice what’s going on in your body. What can you feel in your face? Your neck? Your shoulders and arms? Maybe there’s tingling ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. Many of our experiences in healing treat our mind and body like they are separate entities. The tradition of seeing things this way is called ...

December often brings with it a myriad of responsibilities, never ending to-do lists, and maybe if you’re lucky, enough time to squeeze in some miles. That makes it a pretty optimal time to dial your ...