the somatic connection in psychotherapy I'm a big supporter of psychotherapy. In fact, I just started my Master's Degree in Clinical...

Many of us learned how to hold our bodies from family or authority figures at a young age. "Pull your shoulders back!" "Don't slouch!," we were told. And so, we learned to stand, and sit, with our ribcage forward, and our shoulders "back." In the gym, we might sometimes hear "proud chest" as a cue not to slouch forward. We tend to think of this as "standing up straight," or having "good posture." But if we take a look at this image of a woman sitting in meditation, we can see

Our bodies and brains love to work in patterns-- it's a simple way to minimize brainpower and eliminate excess calorie expenditure. Many of these are useful; others may have been helpful at one time, but have become problematic. Working on changing these can be quite a challenging experience, especially if we're dealing with something like our breathing. In this article, we'll take a look at the mechanics of changing patterned behavior in our body-- and why it takes time. If

My understanding of core work has changed over the years, but for a long time, I understood it as primarily a need to “strengthen the...