My sister and I are both doing somatic work to heal from our childhood, but when we're together our bodies still go into the old family patterns - I get hypervigilant and she shuts down completely - even though we're supposedly learning new ways to regulate, and it's confusing because individually we're both making progress.
More people experience this than they realize.
The body remembers relational patterns that individual healing work alone cannot fully transform, requiring conscious collaboration to create new embodied dynamics.
“Where Are You with Somatic approaches to psychological healing?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.