[OceanBreeze4581]

Hi y'all. I have been reading these forums for a while and they are very helpful. I have read a lot of the previous posts about somatic therapy and wanted to ask if anyone would be willing to share their experiences with me.

My counselor and I just started somatic-type therapy last week. I have been seeing them for a while now and this is the first time we are addressing a trauma from college. It was hard describing how I felt and putting those feelings into words, it's not something I am used to doing. Even more challenging was not really doing a lot of talking - is that the point? I thought I would atleast be talking about some part of what happened, but we really didn't even touch upon it. I barely spoke in fact.

I'm nervous about my appointment later this week and thought others might be willing to provide some insight into their own experiences. Thanks.

[kecanoe]

One of the things I like about SE is that you don't have to talk about the trauma. It has allowed me to heal without working hard to remember specifics. It is different from talk therapy, for sure. I have had to work at identifying the physical feelings; I want to say things like "I feel scared" and T3 will ask where I feel it and what it feels like, physically. It is hard to describe.

I have parts that want to get everything "right" and with SE there is no way to know what is "right", so I struggle with that some. But I think it is probably good for me to not know what response is "right" so that I can be more authentic.

I spent years in talk therapy with not much progress and since starting somatic stuff I have stopped feeling suicidal, stopped planning suicide, stopped wishing I were dead, started thinking that I will get better. If I had to do it again, I'd start with the somatic stuff and avoid the attachment stuff that tends to come up for me.