Emotional Release
SOMATO-EMOTIONAL RELEASE
Your body has it’s own intelligence. It is more than a vehicle for your mind. It has its own knowing and memories. Somato-emotional release is a way to support the release of emotional memories that were unable to be processed at the time. Under stress, our repeated feelings of fear, anger, disappointment, resentment, etc., shut down and get stored in the body. Somato-emotional release gives the body permission to let go of the memories it is holding on to. This work helps you develop your ability to listen to your body. Over time it becomes another guidance system to know your own truth.
Experiences shape our beliefs. When our needs are not met we believe we are not worthy. When the actions of our role models don’t match what we are perceiving and feeling, we compensate and separate from our own truth.
Part of being human is to conform to get our needs met. Our beliefs and expectations of ourselves are shaped by our experiences. Our experiences are true, they happened. The beliefs we took on during our experiences are not hard truths. They can be upgraded to the current version of ourselves. It’s when you want more, want to reclaim your desires, your goals, and your power that your are ready to see the past without going there. To stay present, supported, and give your body permission to let go of what it is holding.
Craniosacral therapy is gentle work. The body communicates through images and metaphors. This work is not meant to be overwhelming, or recreate traumas. The goal is for you to begin a relationship with your body to uncover and release exactly what you are prepared for.
Testimonials
Hey Gail. I just wanted to thank you for the session the other day. Wow. I spent the day sort of muted…in as much stillness as my life would allow…feeling like things had been reconfigured, I just laid low. And then Mon eve I realized: “OMG…I have just released this stuck grief around this one person that no matter what I did it just wouldn’t lift. Wow. Gail did that.” It’s like all my preparatory work up to that point finally paid off when you unblocked the energy, or whatever it is you did. Words cannot express the miraculous effect. And the perfection of the timing, since tonight I happily, giddily, said good riddance to 2013 and the angst I couldn’t shed. All that is to say I am grateful …and I am excited about what this year holds for me. Happy New Year!!
— Linda Albright
Over my life, I have seen many practitioners of different kinds. I have had neck pain, reproductive surgery, and life traumas. The work I am doing with Gail Bernson is very special. From physical pains and discomfort to the deeper issues inside, Gail takes a holistic approach. She scans and approaches the whole of me, not just my body. She “listens” to my body-mind-spirit for where to go and what to do. How does she do this? Darned if I know! If I could do it I’d quit my job and do it it, too, it’s so cool. Extraordinary gifts of discernment, insight, training, and knowledge interplay artfully as she places her hands on or over my shoulders, my eyes, my head, my neck, my toe. How does my body call her there? How does she “hear” it? All I know is, it happens, and I leave transformed, not just pain-free. Who should go to Gail? Anyone with anything challenging you, from physical to systemic, from acute to chronic, from curable to untreatable, from mental to spiritual. Her easy-going, down-to-earth persona takes the woo-woo out and leaves the results in. I am so grateful for this work, experiencing deeper healing at a time when life is calling me to show up bigger and better. Gail is beautifully supporting my body-mind-spirit to do just that.
— Susan Babcock