Transform Your Trauma: Heal from the Inside Out

Process and release your trauma in a safe space. Take the power out of your past experiences and learn how to embrace the present–no matter what you’ve experienced.

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Transform Your Trauma is perfect for you if:

• You’re doing great on paper, but still feel like you aren’t “enough”
• You want to walk down the street without scanning for danger
• You have people you’re friendly with, but feel like you can’t be completely honest or “yourself” with them
• You have two modes: highly efficient or completely crashing—and to be honest, you’re scared what the next crash will bring
• You’re doing everything “right,” but still feel empty, numb, or like you’re just going through the motions
• You just want to close your eyes at night without worrying about nightmares
• You feel like everyone else got a manual to life, and you didn’t
• You’re chugging coffee at 7am because you woke up at 3am—again—and couldn’t get back to sleep
• You know a lot of people, but feel like no one really knows you

Stop struggling with anxiety, nightmares, disconnection from others, a feeling of numbness or apathy about your life, harsh self-criticism, or difficulty finding joy.

Begin to feel at home in your body. Release old patterns that keep you stuck, so you can finally enjoy your life.

1:1 Somatic Healing

What you get:

Weekly 1:1 somatic healing sessions

Weekly embodiment practices personalized to your needs

Direct messaging with your provider throughout the week

How to start:

Book a call with me or email me at info@drjesseglaze.com. The call is a low-stakes opportunity for us to meet and see if we’re a good fit, and for you to get your questions answered.

Transform Your Trauma™ is a collaborative process using embodiment, hypnosis and unshaming to facilitate your healing in three stages:

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What is Somatic Trauma Healing?

The word somatic is derived from the word, Soma, which is Latin for body. Somatic therapy uses exercises, touch, vocalization, and movement to develop awareness and tolerance to physical sensations, while discharging or releasing any areas of tension related to previous traumas. Instead of focusing on the specific traumatic events, somatic therapy works on reducing the intensity of the physical sensations that make these triggers overwhelming. 

Why focus on the body for healing trauma?

Think about it: the physical sensations in your body create the overwhelming feeling behind triggers. When you’re anxious, it’s physical sensations that make it unbearable: nausea, difficulty breathing, tension, a pounding heart, ringing in ears, etc. As it builds to panic, you might feel chest pain and shortness of breath. These are physical responses, not emotions. Somatic techniques teach you to notice, tolerate, amd reduce these physical sensations.

The shock and aftermath of traumas cause stress that is not fully discharged, so the sensations associated with the event get “stuck.” You will then re-experience those sensations in situations that feel similar to the original event. For example, if you survived a car accident, you may find that every time you drive past a car that looks like the one you collided with, or every time you are on the same street, you feel the same sensations as you did during the accident.  Even though you aren’t in danger now, your body responds to the previous danger it never fully got to process.

How does Somatic Trauma Healing work?

Bodily awareness and movement are medicine. As you rebuild a connection with your body and are able to identify and name your sensations, some of the power these sensations have to unnerve you dissipates. When you can sit and acknowledge what your body is feeling, the sensations will start to ebb away. When we turn toward our sensations, they reach a peak and then decrease. If we try to change, ignore, or bury them, they stay with us.

You feel sensations because your nervous system is trying to give you information. If you ignore this information, it will be redelivered with more intensity. This is how pain, stress, and nervous system dysregulation can become chronic.

Your nervous system intensifies any messages that you do acknowledge and respond to. These messages exist to make you change your behavior or environment. Fear indicates you may be in danger, and your body wants you to fight back or run away. Anger means you have been mistreated or violated, and your body wants you to stand up for yourself. Joy exists to encourage you to repeat experiences that are good for you. If you ignore or bury these signals, you will get ever louder signals. And if you keep ignoring the signals, your body will change your internal chemistry to cope with the unacknowledged needs.

Somatics in Action

A simple example of how this works is hunger. When you’re first getting hungry, you’re probably still in your “zone of tolerance”—you want food, but you aren’t suffering yet. If you don’t eat, the hunger will get progressively more distressing until you are experiencing true pain in your stomach. This is similar to your nervous system’s sympathetic (“fight or flight”) response—distressing and activating. The goal is to motivate you to change the situation. In the case of hunger, your body is motivating you to eat. With danger signals, the motivation is to fight for your safety or run away quickly. 

If you do not eat, or are unable to eat, your body will not stay in pain. Slowly, the pain and hunger will dissipate. Instead, your body will start changing your internal chemistry to keep you alive. You will feel tired, and may get cold easily as your body diverts resources—but no longer hungry. This is similar to your nervous system’s parasympathetic (“freeze”) response to overload. Your body is reducing your pain and has given up on trying to motivate you to act. It is preparing for starvation and focused on keeping you alive. Similarly, when you go into freeze, your body is not trying to deliver signals anymore—it is redirecting resources to keep you alive.

This is not a reason to lose hope, though. If you are starving and start to eat small amount of food, your body will adjust and your hunger pangs will return. If you start re-engaging with your body, it will slowly come out of this freeze state and return to homeostasis.

How You Heal with Somatic Therapy 

Your healing journey at Reclaim Your Life is individualized to you, but every journey has the same three-step framework: Embody, Empower, and Embrace.

• Regulate
  • Learn to regulate your nervous system and get in touch with your physical body. I use somatic healing to teach you how to be present in your body and build awareness without getting overwhelmed. I will guide you to a sense of safety and comfort in your body—even if you can’t remember the last time you felt so made or comfortable.
  • As you find true comfort in your body, we’ll start to safely explore what physical sensations are intolerable or triggering for you. Awareness of which sensations cause your nervous system to overload or shut down is one of the keystones to resolving trauma in your body.
• Release
  • From your anchor of safety, you can you can begin to slowly engage with and conquer your triggers. We use practical hypnosis and Somatics to rapidly shift your experience and reconsolidate traumatic memories so that they no longer feel like present experiences.
  • At this stage, the physical sensations begin to ebb and things that were previously triggering no longer create such intense sensations. Rather than going into flight, fight, freeze, or fawn, you’ll be able to respond with a clear head.
• Reclaim
  • This is where you release any old beliefs or shame from your traumas. These sessions use somatic shadow work techniques to root out your unconscious ideas and help you face them without fear or shame. This allows you to embrace your whole self with love and deep, embodied acceptance.

How long does it take to get better?

Most people feel “better” within a their first session, and notice profound changes in their first month. Working with the body to heal trauma is much more transformative than working with talk therapy, so the results can happen much more quickly. I work with people for 3 months at a time—and if they commit to the process, they get profound results.