Cooperation and Competition: What the Research Shows About Working With Rather Than Working Against in Somatic Therapy
In a world that often rewards striving, pushing, and outperforming, many of us internalize the belief that growth comes from working against ourselves—fighting symptoms, suppressing emotions, overriding limits. But in somatic psychotherapy, healing unfolds through a very different principle: working with the body rather than against it.
A Spring Meditation
As we begin to notice the daylight stretching later into the evening and the sun’s light growing warmer and brighter, many of us feel a quiet shift inside. The air changes. The ground softens. Something in us recognizes that spring is near.
The Felt Sense
In somatic psychotherapy, the phrase “felt sense” refers to something subtle yet profoundly important: the body’s lived, internal experience of a situation. It is not just an emotion, a thought, or a physical sensation. It is the whole, embodied sense of “what this is like for me.”