“Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside of you as a result of what happened to you” - Gabor Mate

The difference between working predominantly with the mind as a healing modality and the body is that:

The Mind: Witnesses the physical experience
The Body: Is having the experience and feeling it from the inside out.

Working with the felt sense supports you in becoming more aware, of usual unconscious personal shaping. When you notice how you are moving in the world, and then practice different ways of being.
You experience having more choices. Choosing differently allows for embodiment, and embodiment supports long-lasting change.

For many of us, many of our day-to-day actions are governed by subconscious attempts to avoid feeling our feelings. Something that makes total sense when so many people’s early life environmental conditions varied enormously in their ability to support and
encourage the expression of raw, real, and authentic emotions.

Signaling to you, that it’s not safe to feel your emotions

In response, you, like others, may have compensated by disconnecting from your physical sensations (a key signal that something is arising for you) and unknowingly created mechanisms that appear constructive, in efforts to protect you.

Examples include:

Responding to anxiety through a dependence on being busy
Internalising anger, through habitual smiling, laughter, and niceness
Avoiding confrontation by becoming a people-pleaser

My guess is since you’re on this page, you are ready to bring awareness to these mechanisms and the underlying feelings that inform them. I’m here to support you in learning how to feel more safe in your body, and in the world.