When Talking About It Isn’t Enough: How Somatic Therapy Helps You Heal What the Mind Can’t
- Candice
- Nov 12
- 3 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
When Talking About It Isn’t Enough
You’ve done the work. You’ve gone to therapy, read the books, journaled your insights, practiced mindfulness. You understand your patterns, you can name your triggers — and yet, something deeper still hasn’t shifted.
That doesn’t mean you’ve failed or that you’re broken. It simply means that healing can’t happen in the mind alone. Our nervous system, energy field, and body store experiences and trauma in ways words alone cannot reach.
Why the Body Matters
Trauma, stress, and unresolved emotions live in the body — in patterns of tension, constriction, and survival energy. You might notice chronic tightness, fatigue, anxiety, restlessness, or difficulty connecting with your body despite all your best efforts.
Somatic therapy works by helping your nervous system complete what it couldn’t in the moment of overwhelm. By accessing the body and nervous system directly, we can release energy and emotional residue that the mind has been holding onto for years — sometimes lifetimes.
How Somatic Therapy Works
Somatic therapy is a body-based, trauma-informed approach. Through gentle awareness, grounding, movement, breath work, and nervous system attunement, you learn to feel safe inside your body again.
This work is not just relaxation. It’s deep recalibration:
Your body begins to remember what safety feels like
Stuck energy and tension slowly dissolve
Old survival patterns are released, allowing space for clarity and inner alignment
It’s a profound bridge between mind and body — where insight meets felt experience.
Who Somatic Therapy Helps
Somatic therapy is for people who:
Have done traditional therapy but still feel stuck or blocked
Struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or chronic stress
Carry tension, pain, or discomfort in the body without an apparent cause
Want to reconnect to their body, intuition, and inner guidance
Desire deeper healing that integrates mind, body, energy, and nervous system
It can complement other modalities — talk therapy, counselling, life coaching, energy work, yoga, or mindfulness practices — and help you go beyond the plateaus those approaches sometimes hit.
The Results Clients Notice
After somatic therapy, many people report:
A deep sense of calm and presence in the body
Less anxiety, fear, or emotional reactivity
Clarity and insight into patterns that previously felt confusing
A stronger connection to intuition and inner guidance
Feeling more grounded, embodied, and aligned
Emotional resilience and a new relationship with boundaries and self-care
Healing becomes something you feel rather than just think about.
Ready to begin your healing journey?
Holistic & Somatic Therapy in Vancouver with Candice
*Virtually located in Vancouver, BC, and offering virtual therapy and healing sessions in most provinces across Canada.
If you’re feeling the pull to move beyond talking about your pain — to actually feel healing unfold through your body — somatic therapy can help you reconnect with your inner safety, strength, and sense of self.
In our work together, we weave traditional therapy with body-based and trauma-informed approaches to support your nervous system, release long-held patterns, and help you feel more grounded, alive, and whole.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, or simply longing to feel more at home in yourself — this work meets you where you are, with compassion and care.
Feeling called to explore this work?
Schedule a 30 minute initial exploration call or learn more about how somatic therapy can support your journey of healing and reconnection.
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