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Installing the Inner Ally Meditation + Integration Journal
Do you ever feel like you need more support, guidance, clarity, or strength? Deep within your subconscious lies a powerful protector—an inner ally—waiting to be discovered and activated. In our meditation, you can connect with this inner source of wisdom and resilience. And if you choose to nurture this connection, it could become one of the most transformative practices of your life. My own inner ally is a daily source of grounding, courage, humor, and strength. This guided


Earth Connection: Guided Audio Meditation
Earth Connection Meditation A 23-minute audio to help you access the power and groundedness of your innate connection to the earth element, the central tenant of Taoist philosophy. We disconnect from the larger earth outside of us and our smaller earth inside of us when we go through situations that are too painful to process. When this disconnection becomes a habit, we suffer. In this meditation, we look at our connection to the earth and its importance to the center of our


Connecting to the Inner Child: Audio Meditation + Integration Journal
Connecting To The Inner Child Audio + Integration Journal When we are young, we are naturally more connected and open to the world around us. It is easier to touch into feelings of joy and awe without self-consciousness or embarrassment. Yet, because we are more impressionable to our surroundings, we are also more easily hurt. In this meditation, we explore playing with our inner child and reclaiming the magic and awe we effortlessly touched into when we were young. This 22-


The Child within Remembers: An Inner Child Healing Poem
After a recent session focusing on inner child healing, a client of mine wrote this beautiful poem. I received permission from her to share it, because I think it so powerfully captures


Harnessing Procedural Memory: A Path to Healing Trauma in Somatic Therapies
Procedural memory, an integral component of our cognitive architecture, plays a crucial role in shaping our behaviors and responses. In the context of trauma treatment, understanding the mechanisms and implications of procedural memory is essential for fostering healing and resilience. The intricacies of procedural memory have profound implications for trauma recovery within the framework of somatic therapies, especially. And it can just be downright interesting to learn abou


Gentle Shadow Work: Connecting Our Conscious + Subconscious Minds
By gaining a deeper awareness of what our subconscious wants to express—secret desires, hopes, insecurities, and fears, our pathway to that realm becomes more lucid. This opens up the doorway for beings in our subconscious awareness to come through into our waking consciousness. Opening up this pathway allows for a deeper connection to the realm where we can communicate with our plant allies (find the Plant Ally Meditation here). This 25-minute audio file is a guided journey


Resourcing in Somatic Experiencing
In this video, we explore the concept of resourcing within Somatic Experiencing, as explained by Cassie Belden, a somatic coach.


Orienting - Meditation for Coming Back to the Here + Now
Regulate your nervous system by attuning to the here and now. This brief exercise activates the social engagement system and the vagus nerve for greater calm, centeredness, and presence.


Changing the Inner Channel (Meditation for Self-Awareness)
Do you want to go deeper into your internal landscape? In this meditation, we explore five ways of understanding your experience, based on the Somatic Experiencing tool SIBAM: sensation, image, behavior, affect, and meaning. It will get you out of your head, closer to yourself, and allow new insights to arise. How was this practice for you? Let me know! Inner Channel Transcript Hi. This is Emma Sartwell with Somatic Spiritual Counseling, and this is going to be a SIBAM medit


10 Pieces of Relationship Advice for Building Secure Attachment (Thanks, Stan Tatkin) | Part 2
Who does not love to be protected? Can you remember a time when someone stuck up for you in public?


10 Pieces of Relationship Advice for Building Secure Attachment (Thanks, Stan Tatkin)
Romantic relationships can be hard. Like, really f’ing hard. And it can be so nice to have help given to us in the form of a succinct list.


On Being Broken: Investigating Our Core Beliefs about Ourselves
In your innermost chamber, do you harbor the secret belief that you are broken or damaged in a way that cannot be overcome?
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