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.
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.”
Meet Charge With Charge: A Somatic Approach to Trauma Healing
In somatic psychotherapy, you may hear the expression “meet charge with charge.” While it can sound like advice, it’s more of a guiding principle—a way of understanding how the body moves toward healing when trauma has impacted the nervous system.