The Importance of Compassion in Healing Trauma

Somatic therapy is letting whatever didn't get to be completed get completed. Part of part of what the nervous system does when it's mobilizing for survival is the body gives a pretty big energy release in fight or flight so that the person can survive. So if you're looking at someone who was a part of a mass shooting and they had to lay really still and couldn't move, there was energy going in their body, but they were containing it to survive. That energy release just gets trapped in the body and that trapping in the body creates the adverse symptoms that many people look at as the after effects of trauma.