Releasing What Your Body's Been Holding Onto
Sometimes Your Body Knows What You Need Before You Do
I went to somatic movement therapy three times and wasn't getting anything from the sessions. I was frustrated. Nothing seemed to be working.
But part of me had this desire to be there. My inner knowing, my body, God—was saying, "you need this. You need to be here."
In the fourth or fifth session, she was playing music. Just the tone and frequency, the way she was having my body move—I just started to cry. Violently. Uncontrollably. Literally, this emotion is pouring out of me for five or six minutes.
And then I was able to tell the story for the very first time.
About one of my dogs who had been viciously attacked and killed. It was tragic. But I felt so much shame and guilt around her death that I wouldn't tell anybody.
That had happened four years before the somatic work. For four years, I carried that guilt and shame. No one knew what happened to Steele.
When I look back, that was like a champagne bottle.
With all of my emotion inside of me from years of storing unprocessed emotion. And her death was like the cork on that bottle. That movement that day just shot it out of me.
Out came the emotion—raw, real emotion. And then out came the story. I was able to tell it.
Sometimes the Universe is working with you even when you don't understand why you're there. Your body knows what you need before your mind does.
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