Episode 252: Somatic Healing with Laurie James
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, I welcome Laurie James back to the show as we delve into somatic therapy, exploring its effectiveness in healing and discovering techniques to soothe the nervous system. Whether you're navigating the complexities of contemplating divorce or actively undergoing the process, you're bound to encounter a myriad of emotions. Join us as we uncover various methods and resources for healing and self-care.
Laurie James is a mother, caregiver, divorcée, turned author, somatic relationship coach, and podcaster. She loves coaching midlife and beyond women looking to date and relationship differently. She helps her clients connect to their bodies and nervous systems to work through their unresolved past and find more freedom and love in all their relationships.
Featured topics:
- Understanding Somatic Experience: What it is and exploring the benefits of this therapeutic methodology (3:22)
- Somatic healing in action: Laurie provides some examples of how this modality might be used in coaching or therapy (10:46)
- We explore alternate ways to soothe the nervous system (24:54)
Learn more about Laurie James:
Laurie James is a mother, caregiver, divorcée, turned author, somatic relationship coach, and podcaster. Laurie's book, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go is about her journey from loneliness to finding belonging during a time when she was raising four teenage daughters, her mother had a heart attack, and her marriage began to crumble.
Laurie loves coaching women in midlife and beyond looking to date and relationship differently. She helps her clients connect to their bodies and nervous system so they can work through their unresolved past and find more freedom and love in all their relationships.
When she is not hosting her podcast, "Confessions of a Freebird", working w/ clients, she can be found nurturing her free spirit by walking her dog, skiing, sailing, hiking, spending time with close friends, volunteering or planning her next adventure.
Resources & Links:
Kate's book "The D Word
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Laurie's website
Laurie's free Beginner's Guide to Somatic Healing
Episode 131: Sandwiched: Holding on and Letting Go with Laurie James
Episode Link:
https://kateanthony.com/podcast/episode-252-somatic-healing-with-laurie-james/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:43.4 | Hey everyone, welcome back. So before we get to today's episode, I want to just remind you that my |
| 0:52.3 | brand new program, Phoenix Rising, is starting next week. And I'm |
| 0:57.7 | really excited because we have a really great cohort already signed up. We have a few spots left. |
| 1:05.5 | I would love for you to join us. If you're going through divorce and you feel like you need |
| 1:09.9 | all the support that you can |
| 1:12.2 | get from me and a collective of gorgeous and amazing other women going through the same or similar |
| 1:21.7 | circumstances, then Phoenix Rising is perfect for you. It's a group coaching program, all of the information about it. |
| 1:29.4 | You can find on my website, kateanthony.com slash decided. |
| 1:34.6 | All the information you need is going to be there. |
| 1:36.9 | Also check your inbox because I did, I've been sending a bunch of emails about this lately. |
| 1:42.9 | And one of them has a video in the email |
| 1:45.6 | that explains when the calls are and how it works because there's been some question and confusion |
| 1:53.2 | about that so check your email for that video if you're in my Facebook group I also posted it |
| 1:59.6 | in there so that's that. |
| 2:02.9 | Phoenix Rising, starting next week, join us. |
| 2:07.5 | Okay, so today's episode, I have today with me, Lori James. |
| 2:13.5 | She is a return guest. |
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