The Body Remembers: Trauma & Somatic Healing

We often try to heal by “thinking” our way out of pain. We journal, meditate, reframe our thoughts. And while those tools are powerful, they don’t always reach the root of the problem.

Because trauma doesn’t just live in the mind. The body remembers.

I know this deeply, because my body carried stories I didn’t even realise I was still holding.

✨ My hair fell out in clumps during periods of deep stress.
✨ I turned to emotional eating when I didn’t feel safe or supported.
✨ I caught myself holding my breath in rooms where I didn’t feel safe, bracing against a threat that wasn’t there.
✨ I slept curled into a ball, my body still protecting me like it had learned to as a child.
✨ And I clenched my jaw through the night, waking with the pain of battles fought in my sleep.

Even when I told myself I was fine, my body told the truth.

And it wasn’t just physical. Energetically, I kept attaching to emotionally unavailable people, because that kind of love felt familiar. My nervous system was repeating what it knew.

I also found myself stuck in money cycles that mirrored scarcity — feast, famine, repeat. Again, it wasn’t that I didn’t know how to manage money. It was that my body remembered scarcity and kept pulling me back into it.

The nervous system doesn’t care what’s “good for us.” It cares about what feels recognisable.

The turning point for me was discovering somatic healing. Massage allowed me to release years of stored tension. EFT tapping helped soothe my nervous system and shift the charge around painful memories. Breathwork reminded my body that it was safe, here and now.

Somatic healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about helping your body finally exhale.

✨ If you’ve been looping in cycles you can’t think your way out of, it might not be your fault.
✨ It might just be your body, still holding the story.

And the beautiful thing is — with somatic practices, that story can change.

If this resonates, I invite you to explore these practices with me through massage, EFT, or my 1:1 session. Together, we can help your body remember what safety feels like.

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