339: Somatic Practices for Healing Stress and Trauma (with Dr. Arielle Schwartz)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Therapy Consultant, Somatic Psychotherapist, and Certified Yoga Instructor. This week, Dr. Schwartz shares what somatic practices are and why they can often be more effective than traditional talk therapies. She also lets you in on what she believes to be the key to our healing. We dive deeper into movement practices in general and how helpful they can be in processing trauma, and you'll learn some hands-on, doable strategies to help you manage your emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrants Happy Women Podcast. I'm Dr. Jen Ridey, and on this episode, |
| 0:05.2 | we'll be talking about somatic practices to help with trauma. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, |
| 0:12.5 | and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. |
| 0:18.5 | You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your |
| 0:22.7 | sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to |
| 0:28.7 | the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. Welcome back, my friends. How are you? How are you feeling? |
| 0:36.3 | How are you recovering from all the things that seem to be happening in our world? And that seemed never to be ending. Well, this episode is for you because I have a special guest, Dr. Ariel Schwartz, who is going to talk to us about somatic practices to heal stress and trauma. |
| 0:56.0 | Somatics refers to the body. Our body has nerves woven throughout, nerves that keep us safe, |
| 1:03.6 | that send sensations or signals to the brain. For example, if you touch a hot stove, |
| 1:09.1 | your body will react using those nerves before your brain or your thoughts ever get involved. |
| 1:15.6 | Healing and well-being requires us to address both aspects, how we think and how those thoughts make us feel and behave. |
| 1:25.1 | That is top down. |
| 1:27.3 | And that is important. I've talked a lot about that. |
| 1:29.5 | We have thought tables to help us with that process. But also bottom up. You've heard a lot about |
| 1:36.4 | polyvagal theory lately on this podcast and elsewhere, I'm sure. That is a semantics or bottom up |
| 1:43.9 | approach to kind of freeing our nervous systems, |
| 1:48.2 | shifting our nervous systems out of fight or flight or that shut down and freeze response |
| 1:52.8 | coming back to safe and social. Removing or letting go of any stuck messages that are stuck in our |
| 2:00.5 | body that are not integrated into our psyches |
| 2:04.1 | that can be known as trauma. So Dr. Ariel and I are going to be talking about this throughout |
| 2:10.7 | this episode and I want you to key into and notice somatic practices that you might easily introduce into your life. |
| 2:19.4 | You'll hear her talk about yoga, being in nature, more specific things like touching parts |
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