The power of Somatic Attachment Therapy with Dr Scott Lyons
WHAT IS A SOMATIC APPROACH TO HEALING ATTACHMENT WOUNDS?
‘Soma’ is a Greek word for ‘the living body known from within’, or known to the Self. This ‘knowing’ signifies wholeness. Somatic therapy is an experiential approach towards mindbody integration. The pain, overwhelm, and coping responses manifested by attachment trauma take us away from feeling at home in our body, at home with other people, or at home within the world. Somatic therapy brings us back.
The manifestations of attachment trauma are primarily subconscious, so using words (i.e talk therapy) or psycho-education alone is an incomplete approach for transformation. Profound healing and re-patterning comes from making changes at the body (cellular) level. A somatic therapy approach acknowledges the narrative of our attachment journey and guides a client into the wisdom of their body to restore the innate capacity to bond, form healthy and adaptive boundaries, and flourish in all aspects of relationships.
In this video below Dr Scott Lyons explores what makes a somatic approach to healing attachment wounds so profoundly powerful for our selves, the people we work with, and the world.
Somatic Attachment Therapy helps:
Restore the body as a place of safety and as a conduit for love
Feel an embodied core sense of self
Compassionately renew a felt sense of connection and security
Release stored tensions in the body that contribute to defensiveness, avoidance, or anxiety
Expand the capacity to process body (preverbal and nonverbal) memory
Metabolize unprocessed emotions
Create deep and sustaining intimate relationships
Break the cycle of reenacting protective attachments patterns in relationships
Create the internal and external conditions for attachment re-patterning versus merely working with symptom reduction.
Restore your optimal relationship to yourself and the world around you
Enhances the capacity for joy, trust, managing disappointments and rejections.
The Embody Lab’s Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate starting early 2022, brings together world renowned Somatic Attachment Therapy teachers into one program, this certificate provides a holistic framework for a body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.
Are you ready to help heal attachment wounds and trauma, and support the creation of profound and empowering relationships for yourself, clients, communities and the world?
