Xisca
Member
I have found the right forum for the topic!
I want to share about Somatic Experiencing, usually called SE.
I came here on this forum last year, when discovering Peat, and then found out that a lot is said on this forum about nerves. I came into answering with what I know, and also because when you ask for some help on a forum it is the right return to help with whatever you can.
I am going to look for what I posted elsewhere, so that I do not have to start all. I want it to be under the right title instead of "all around"
I 1st say a few things.
I do not have internet at home, so I can be very irregular for connecting and answering.
Then, I am trained into this method, I did the full 3 years course. I live in Europe and I do not look for any personal benefit.
I did the training in English with translation, but I am not English native and I am lazy for using a dictionary, so sorry for whatever will be badly said, you can always ask me to precise.
I have been looking for answers like you all in this forum, and I came across Somatic Experiencing exactly as I came across Peat! It is just pure logic after reading a lot.
I have given some sessions already, and I am just amazed at the results.
I am even jealous because people seem to react much better and quicker than me to the method....
I do believe that information helps to understand and be calmer when something happens and triggers a nervous reaction. So I would not inform about SE just to tell you to go and see a SEP (SE practitionner)! No, I believe we can fix part of our stuff ourselves. Actaully, I started this because I have no way to get sessions where I live, so I do them to myself. As this is no told into the course, I had to mix with other things.
Like for diet, I have tried quite a lot of things for my shyness and sensitivity in general. I had a quite healthy outdoor life, so I have never taken any drug at all for stress, and I can sleep well. I did have some traumatic experiences in my life, but most of all I had something happen before birth, well it happened to my mother, and she never was a strong person. I have learned that this triggers a global activation because the nervous system is not well finished before 6 months old. So, you become more sentive to little events! I wanted to say this also because it is very hard for people who were not hardly traumatised, to be said that they have to go on because you must be strong and forget about these "little things".
PTSD was known through the story of war veterans, and this can make people ashamed of being traumatized "for nothing".
Talking about trauma is quite a shame at least in my culture. People just say that they have overcome the events, and that they are not traumatized. So I never speak about PTSD not use the word trauma, when I want to inform people about SE around here.
Though SE is american, I was surprised that it was not apparently known. It is just showing up in Europe, but it called my attention just because 2 people talked to me about it at the same time, including the mother of a friend. So I went to the 2 days introduction course 5 years ago. I reacted so much and came into contact with my body sensations beyond emotions. I am a dog behaviorist, so I already knew a lot, except that I did not tiiiiiiiilt to all before this course. That was enough to decide to go for the full course.
So now that you get the story, I go and look for what I posted elsewhere!
I want to share about Somatic Experiencing, usually called SE.
I came here on this forum last year, when discovering Peat, and then found out that a lot is said on this forum about nerves. I came into answering with what I know, and also because when you ask for some help on a forum it is the right return to help with whatever you can.
I am going to look for what I posted elsewhere, so that I do not have to start all. I want it to be under the right title instead of "all around"
I 1st say a few things.
I do not have internet at home, so I can be very irregular for connecting and answering.
Then, I am trained into this method, I did the full 3 years course. I live in Europe and I do not look for any personal benefit.
I did the training in English with translation, but I am not English native and I am lazy for using a dictionary, so sorry for whatever will be badly said, you can always ask me to precise.
I have been looking for answers like you all in this forum, and I came across Somatic Experiencing exactly as I came across Peat! It is just pure logic after reading a lot.
I have given some sessions already, and I am just amazed at the results.
I am even jealous because people seem to react much better and quicker than me to the method....
I do believe that information helps to understand and be calmer when something happens and triggers a nervous reaction. So I would not inform about SE just to tell you to go and see a SEP (SE practitionner)! No, I believe we can fix part of our stuff ourselves. Actaully, I started this because I have no way to get sessions where I live, so I do them to myself. As this is no told into the course, I had to mix with other things.
Like for diet, I have tried quite a lot of things for my shyness and sensitivity in general. I had a quite healthy outdoor life, so I have never taken any drug at all for stress, and I can sleep well. I did have some traumatic experiences in my life, but most of all I had something happen before birth, well it happened to my mother, and she never was a strong person. I have learned that this triggers a global activation because the nervous system is not well finished before 6 months old. So, you become more sentive to little events! I wanted to say this also because it is very hard for people who were not hardly traumatised, to be said that they have to go on because you must be strong and forget about these "little things".
PTSD was known through the story of war veterans, and this can make people ashamed of being traumatized "for nothing".
Talking about trauma is quite a shame at least in my culture. People just say that they have overcome the events, and that they are not traumatized. So I never speak about PTSD not use the word trauma, when I want to inform people about SE around here.
Though SE is american, I was surprised that it was not apparently known. It is just showing up in Europe, but it called my attention just because 2 people talked to me about it at the same time, including the mother of a friend. So I went to the 2 days introduction course 5 years ago. I reacted so much and came into contact with my body sensations beyond emotions. I am a dog behaviorist, so I already knew a lot, except that I did not tiiiiiiiilt to all before this course. That was enough to decide to go for the full course.
So now that you get the story, I go and look for what I posted elsewhere!