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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
― Mary Oliver
Trauma-informed counseling is a compassionate approach that understands and addresses the profound effects of trauma. It focuses on creating a safe, empowering space where healing can gently unfold. We attune to the body and come to understand and respect our survival responses. We are gentle with what is and move at the pace of trust.
A therapist once told me, "When we put our metaphorical arms around it, alchemy happens." And indeed, when we try to force a fist to open, it only tightens harder, but a clenched fist relaxes when we wrap a supportive hand around it.
“You don’t have to push the river; it flows by itself.”
― Chinese proverb
Embodiment work is a form of somatic depth psychotherapy that recognizes the deep connection between mind and body and that we are profoundly shaped by our experiences in and with the world around us ― starting from an early age and mostly in unconscious ways. Mindfulness and compassionate inquiry ― supported by a safe holding environment ― allow us to come to know our whole selves. Through curiosity and attunement, we gently make the unconscious conscious. This approach gives us a chance to attend to and metabolize unprocessed experiences, empowering us to live more liberated and intentional lives and come into deeper connection with each other and the world in which we live.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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