Traumatized people are stuck, arrested in their growth because they cannot integrate new experiences into their lives. Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still happening - unchanged and unchanging - because every new encounter or event is tainted by the past (Bessel van der Kolk, 2014)
The Capacity to Heal is already there – in the body – ready to be accessed…
In Somatic Experiencing we simply support and encourage the stitching together of the resources with the trauma material until the organic process takes over…
... Then – when the organic rythm is restored - you simply witness the re-emergence of lifeforce... (Sonia Gomez, 2018)
