What Somatic Work Is. And What It Isn’t.
Kat Hofmann Kat Hofmann

What Somatic Work Is. And What It Isn’t.

Very often, somatic work looks almost ordinary.

It can be noticing that you’re pulling your abdomen in and allowing it to soften. Realizing your jaw has been clenched for hours and letting it release. Feeling your breath deepen by a fraction. Becoming aware that you’ve been holding yourself upright and allowing your weight to rest back into the chair.

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Over-Self-Regulation: When Being “Calm” Becomes a Survival Strategy
Kat Hofmann Kat Hofmann

Over-Self-Regulation: When Being “Calm” Becomes a Survival Strategy

A life that feels technically fine but emotionally unreachable.

The antidote is not dysregulation.
It’s permission.

Permission to feel the heat rise in your chest.
Permission to feel the grief under your sternum.
Permission to let your no move through your diaphragm instead of holding it down.
Permission to shake, expand, breathe, reach, soften.

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