Embrace your own 'juiciness' and let it be your superpower.

Here's a juicy topic for you: Can Somatic Therapy be used to work on issues around sex?

Absolutely.

And this might surprise you: but we work on sex just like we work on any other topic.

I’d love to share one of my client’s journeys with you (with permission, of course). This client had been disinterested in sex for a long time. But recently, she met someone who made her feel good - and it awakened her desire - big time..

But there was a catch. Even though he was great in the love-making department, he couldn't reliably show up for her.

Which triggered her history of abandonment and neglect.

I felt it was essential to help her separate the newfound pleasure she was experiencing from her emotionally unavailable lover.

I wanted her to understand that this sensation wasn't solely due to him – it was hers to claim.

Her newfound sexual prowess, that 'juiciness' she described, her pleasure, sensuality, and arousal, I wanted her to see them as her superpowers, independent of anyone else's existence.

So here’s the million-dollar question:

How could we shift this understanding from her mind into actually embodying it?

This is where Somatic Therapy works its magic, and it's what sets it apart. It's all about embodiment.

What we did might not fly in other forms of therapy.

I encouraged her to invite those feelings of 'juiciness' that usually arose with her partner to surface in her body, right then and there, without any obligation to act on them.

Then I asked her to track what kept coming up in her body..

Because she’s so practiced at doing this with other sensations, it was easy to see what was coming up as, not better or worse than any other sensation.

Each sensation had a unique location and quality, described through the use of sensation words.

She stayed with these sensations for as long as she could, all while noticing the container of the body. She helped the sensations expand through intuitive movement.

By the end of the session, she reported feeling incredible and expressed a desire to keep practicing this.

The next few days, she had a few new thoughts.

Things like: "You don't really NEED anyone to make you whole, but he's definitely not the one you want."

In the world of Somatic Therapy, real transformation happens when you learn to embrace your own 'juiciness' and let it be your superpower.