Catalyst Behavioral Health

Why don’t animals in the wild become traumatized even though daily their lives are under threat? Because they still instinctively know to allow themselves to shake off the survival energy.

Emotional eaters deal with the discomfort of emotions by using food to either ramp them up or tamp them down. It’s not that they misunderstand food cues, but they override themI’m not hungry, but I’m lonely, so I’ll eat.

You matter. How you feel matters.

How somatic experiencing (SE) supports the body in healing trauma and restoring balance back to the nervous system. Even so, the founder of SE, states that trauma is not an event but it’s an energy that gets locked in your body around the real or perceived threat. The extent to which a person experiences pain is related to their ability to restore safety in the aftermath of the event. If you are unable to overcome it effectively, your nervous system gets stuck in a survival ...state of flight, freeze or fight. SE uses a clinical map to access the state of survival known as fight, flight and freeze while helping you to release the defensive responses. When trauma happens too fast, and you do not have the time or ability to deal with it, the survival energy gets stuck in your body as an incomplete reaction. This trapped energy then leads you.

"Somatic experiencing is a form of somatic therapy and a body-centered approach. It's most often used to help people overcome symptoms tied to trauma, since it may allow someone to become unstuck in the fight, flight, or freeze response."

The autonomic nervous system has 3 different operations that are important to be familiar with in order to understand and be aware of what is happening inside of you as you experience different states of being. https://medium.com//how-to-use-the-polyvagal-ladder-c68835