Spiraling Higher 28. Laurie Anne Briere: Finding Our True Selves By Healing Through The Nervous System
Mar 8, 2023
Laurie Anne Briere, a somatic practitioner and breathwork facilitator specializing in trauma resolution, shares her profound insights on healing through the nervous system. She emphasizes the importance of connecting with our emotions and bodies for true healing. The discussion tackles coping mechanisms, the significance of ‘titration’ in grief work, and the impact of early relationships on our emotional landscape. Laurie encourages compassion for our responses and highlights how movement can help process emotions, renewing our connection to self and others.
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Somatic Work Definition
- Somatic work focuses on the body's felt experience, unlike psychotherapy or coaching, which prioritize thoughts.
- It emphasizes present moment awareness to complete stress and trauma response cycles.
Sam's Emotional Repression
- Sam struggled to identify sensations due to past negative associations with emotions.
- Shame and suppression led to a long period without crying, highlighting the impact of emotional repression.
Emotional Processing through Titration
- Process emotions through titration: experience them in small, manageable doses (e.g., 1%).
- This prevents overwhelm and allows sustainable metabolization and integration.