if you’re anything like me, you like to know why. why is somatic coaching effective? how does it work?

most of us were taught to fix our lives from the neck up — mindset hacks, productivity tricks, “positive thinking.”

trauma, stress, creative blocks, and burnout don’t exist in the mind alone.
they live in the body.
if we want real change — embodied, lasting change — we have to go deeper than thought.

this is where somatic work comes in.

“soma” means body. not just your muscles or posture, but the whole living intelligence of your being. somatic work is about reconnecting with that intelligence: listening to it, processing stuck emotions through it, and allowing your body to complete what it never got to finish (fight, cry, shake, scream, collapse, laugh, feel.)

trauma is stored in the nervous system, not just in memory.
when something overwhelming happens and we can’t escape, the body braces — literally. muscles tighten. breath shortens. your system goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. if you never get to complete that response, the tension stays trapped in your tissues and nervous system.

the thinking brain (neocortex) can’t override the survival brain.
you can’t affirm your way out of a freeze response. that’s why talk therapy alone often hits a wall. the body needs to be involved.

somatic practices work directly with the nervous system.
through breath, movement, sensation, sound, and presence, we signal safety. we let the body finish what it couldn’t. we restore flow.

and that’s when creativity, clarity, and confidence return

not because we “figured it out,” but because we finally moved through it.