Hey! Jenny here with Somatic Therapy Partners. I’m here to teach you guys another skill today. The skill that we’re going to look at is called the body anchor. Now you may have heard of this term before or maybe even heard of this activity before. Chances are I might do it a little bit […]
Somatic Grounding Skills
Calming Down By Engaging Your Vagus Nerve
Editor’s note: the video for this post has been removed. The text below is the video transcript. I am going to teach you a little exercise for the social nervous system; this was developed by Anna Chitty. I’ll just give you some of my ideas about when this might be helpful. The social nervous system […]
The Importance of Pausing and the Practice of Self-Soothing Contact
Hey! Jenny here with Somatic Therapy Partners. Today we’re going to talk about something that I think is really important and often something that as a society we don’t actually do too much: pausing. So often when we’re running through our lives, whether that’s in relationship with other people or at work, we are constantly […]
Somatic Grounding Skill: Feet Seat Back (FSB)
Hi! Jenny here with Somatic Therapy Partners. Today I’m here to teach you guys another resourcing skill for when you’re in those moments of feeling really anxious or nervous about something or feeling like you’re just really amped up. I like to use this when I’m feeling like if I have some sort of call […]