Blog topic
Emotional Pain
7 posts
Returning to a Felt Sense of Safe Connection After a Rupture: Reflections on the social/emotional effects of Covid-19
How could I, as a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and massage therapist, return to a sense of safe emotional/physical connection with others while living with the new reality (during this pandemic) of the potential danger inherent with…
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Prodigal Daughter
I told my father that there was a specific reason for my call that day. I wanted to share with him a memory that had come up during a series of somatic experiencing sessions of a time when my parents split up when I was three years old. I…
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Healing One Step at a Time
So often we come up against roadblocks in life, a place where we feel intrinsically dis-satisfied with some aspect of where we are within our life; within ourselves. We ask ourselves why is this happening to me, why do I feel this way and…
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When the threat lies within
So what happens when something scary and overwhelming happens now? Recently I experienced a cancer scare and spent a week and a half thinking I might very possibly have breast cancer, which it turns out I do not thankfully.
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Self-compassion through Rosen Method
What does it mean to have self-compassion? For me self-compassion occurs any time I choose to act with kindness, love, gentleness or sensitivity towards myself. This sounds simple but it has taken the greater part of my life to learn. Of…
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Deepen your connection to self and other
At some point in our human existence we will inevitably experience some form of trauma. Why is it that some people seem more resilient than others in recovering from trauma? Trauma that occurs in early childhood is more devastating in that…
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Experiencing Forgiveness
Rosen Method Bodywork taught me how to allow my emotions without judgement and accept the feelings I had weren’t good or bad, they just were.
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