I can speak about what I’ve experienced without my body tightening or my emotions taking over. The charge is gone.

There was a moment in the session where it changed. I had been holding the understanding in my mind, analysing it, making sense of it. Then something settled, and my body caught up. Now it’s a lived truth, not just a thought.

The breakthrough was recognising that my own agency was the missing resource. I didn’t know it was missing because it wasn’t even within my awareness. It existed outside what I could see or conceive of at the time.

What I value most is the blend of education and experience. I’m not just talking about change, I’m understanding the science behind it while my body is moving through it. Learning somatics this way is genuinely fascinating.

I didn’t have to relive the story to understand it. My body revealed what it had been carrying all along. I can recognise now how I’ve been unconsciously getting in my own way.

I didn’t realise how much I was bracing and controlling. I thought it was my job to hold it all. When I finally allowed my body to lead, it began to move and release on its own. It amazes me that such deep shifts can happen without retelling or analysing the past.

There was a clear turning point in the session. I saw that I’d been trying to decode the situation for years, believing understanding would free me. Instead, my relationship to it shifted. It no longer feels like something I’m trapped inside of.

I realised I didn’t have to push or manufacture a breakthrough. I simply waited. When it came, it wasn’t dramatic. It was an impulse beneath the surface, something my body had been ready to express.

The experience of being protected by someone grounded and competent changed everything. It created enough safety for me to reconnect with my own internal protection. I didn’t relive the past. I restored myself. The strain I used to carry has eased.

It showed me how my body holds overwhelm, and how small shifts in posture and sound can change the internal experience. I didn’t have to analyse anything. I simply felt it move.