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The body in it's natural state is the temple of the soul. That sounds lovely, but for many with difficult lives and histories, living in that body/temple feels unattainable. When that's true, the internal world is often made up of despair, grief, turmoil, disruption, numbness. Not what most of us would think of as an ideal environment for a temple!
How then to journey inside to a place of sacred connection?
After years of training and learning and exploring I realized what was missing was helping people live a good life outside of therapy. My goal was to support people in living the life they wanted to live rather than the life their history was catapulting them into.
Since I wanted people to trust the wisdom that comes from living in their own skin I called this group of skills, Becoming Safely Embodied. Over the past ten years I settled on a series of skills that when practiced provide a map for the internal journey. They're sort of like the bread crumbs Hansel and Gretel threw on the ground as they walked into the dark forest. The bread crumbs guided Hansel and Gretel back out into the larger world beyond the dark forest.
The Becoming Safely Embodied skills were developed to help people do the same—notice the difficult, dark spaces and at the same time live a more empowering, satisfying life. I hope they support you in living the life you want to live as well.
Deirdre Fay, LICSW
A Skill Based Approach to Working with Trauma and Dissociation
By Deirdre Fay, MSW
Foreward by Janina Fisher, PhD
You can live the life that you want, instead of living the life your trauma physiologically propels you to lead.
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