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Summary: In Somatic Experiencing circles we talk a lot about the biological cause of trauma and “why the stress response doesn’t complete.” We pass around various explanations that generally point toward something that wanted to happen that didn’t. It’s a

“Discovering and facilitating what we CAN DO is far more effective at enhancing resiliency and self-regulation than reinforcing attention on what we CAN’T DO.” -Twig In my workshop The I CAN PRINCIPLE, I talk about why I believe this statement

Summary: Some SE sessions cause dramatic, even magical, changes. Some of those changes are permanent from the start, which is wonderful. However many magic changes are not permanent and gently preparing clients for the swing back to discomfort is an

Summary: Renegotiation of Freeze/Immobility states is a central piece of the work we do as SE Practitioners and one of the great gifts that SE has to offer. The relief that comes from quelling the compulsion of Freeze is essentially unmatched

Summary: As SEP’s we have a desire to consistently reinforce empowerment, autonomy and self-direction to the extent possible and intelligible. This makes it so we look to maintain a certain economy of feedback that favors client discovery and limits practitioner

Summary: If you look up Stress and Trauma independently on Google you get dramatically different results: Stress = 590,000,000 Trauma = 133,000,000 I think this says something about where the dominant culture directs their attention and how they think of their situation. When

[Update: Sweigh Emily Spilken wrote an excellent piece on the subject of individual and community healing after the flood in Boulder, Colorado. You can find it here.] “Twig, I am looking forward to your blog. I have a question. Can

There are times when I know that I’ll need to interrupt my client for some reason or another. Either I need to redirect his attention away from reinforcing over-activation or I need to be able to ask for her to