by Caryn Scotto | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured, Somatic Psychotherapy Today
When we help clients neurobiologically separate out early shame from grief, we bring them to the awareness of how present day experiences are actually a confusing entanglement of calling cards from the past. As the responses separate and integrate with support into...
by Caryn Scotto | Oct 27, 2016 | Somatic Psychotherapy Today
Editor’s Note: The ‘client’ in this blog represents a collage of stories and experiences to represent the writer’s perspective. This is not a real person. PDF version available here Her cheeks were beet red and her blonde wig hung down in front of her face...
by Caryn Scotto | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured, Somatic Psychotherapy Today
Shame is often experienced as a massive, tornado-like swirl of helplessness and hopelessness that keeps tearing through our hearts and minds, through the very core of our being. Its redundant looping can become stuck on any number of thoughts of inadequacy: I am such...
by Caryn Scotto | Jun 29, 2016 | Somatic Psychotherapy Today
I recently had the honor of working with an 80-year-old client, a magnificent embodiment teacher and leader in her own right. When she first came to me, she was spinning in such shame-chaos that a crucial legal document needing attention remained unaddressed, which...
