Do You Have Trouble Managing Your Emotions?Somatic Therapy Can Help.
Somatic Therapy San Francisco
Most days you can pretend that everything is ok--that you don’t need therapy —especially if you keep busy.
Then there are these moments of panic where all of your emotions hit you and you can’t find a way to feel better. Maybe you drag yourself out of bed to go to work and have anxiety attacks where you cry in the bathroom stall. You try to keep pushing the thoughts or memories that overwhelm you away, to no avail.
It doesn’t happen all the time so you can usually tell yourself and everyone else things are fine. But if you stopped for a minute and looked at reality you would notice how unhappy you are with yourself and who you are. Every move you make seems like a reminder of something you did wrong or could do better.
Your emotions seem to be controlling you and your life and the more you try to push them away, the more you feel them. You try to numb them when you can but that also leaves you not feeling. . .well anything.
Maybe you have tried talk therapy and find that talking doesn’t help you as much as you hoped. In fact, the more you talk, the more hopeless you feel. Don’t despair. There are other types of therapy that can help you feel your feelings, let fo of the heaviness you carry and feel lighter and happier in your body and in your life!
How Somatic Therapy San Francisco Can Help You With Your Emotions
Somatic therapy is a type of therapy that uses feelings and sensations in the body as well as movement to help people process their emotions. Literally moving through trauma, anxiety, and stress leaves clients feeling lighter and better able to cope. Since it is not only talking about emotions, somatic therapists help clients learn to sit with their feelings or move through them, depending on what each client needs. At first it may seem intimidating to actually feel those feelings that you may have spent a long time avoiding but don’t worry: somatic therapists have the experience to help you connect your body and mind. You may just find that when you are able to stop avoiding your feelings you can begin living your life!
Things somatic therapy can help with:
anxiety and stress
depression and sadness
burnout and work stress
feeling numb or disconnected
and much more!
If you are ready to start feeling better and like your emotions are finally not running your life, please reach out to me lisa@lisamanca.com for a free 15 minute phone consultation!