Somatic Experiencing: Animals shake off traumic events but us humans think too much

Anne Mathison is a somatic experiencing psychotherapist. She helps trauma survivors understand how their biology, sympathetic nervous system and vagus nerve have been impacted by their response to the trauma and works with them to develop strategies to feel safe once more. 

In this episode Anne explains: 

• Somatic experiencing (SE)
• How animals respond to trauma
• An example of the SE approach to healing trauma
• The Window of Tolerance 
• Mirror Neurons
• How trauma survivors should approach martial arts 
• How martial arts instructors should teach to protect survivors from being retraumatized