Yes indeed. Good catch. Although there is a flexibility choice here with dual task interference where somatic interventions are used to counter dissociation or logic based avoidance… whereas cognitive DTI is used to cool down emotional flooding. And of course the magic is in leading the client to a genuine prediction error you primed them to spot
SE is less into the story and more curious about the emotion/sensation in the body. I combine SE with parts work, nervous system regulation and visioning in my method. I really like what you are sharing. It's very much the lane I roll in but communicated in a different way. I find blending modalities is where the magic happens.
Agreed. My background is functional medicine and working on a PHD in transpersonal psych and my work is most arrived by research and my clinical intuition over 30 years... and interestingly enough shamanism... never formall trained in Somatics or IFS etc.... but when I teach many have told me there are strong parallels
Agree. The body keeps the score. Releasing the trauma imprints (Adverse Childhood Experiences that built the foundation) has been a journey for me and SE the most helpful. Integration, and what OPs piece addresses imo is the change maker.
These things released my trauma imprints: hatha yoga; mountain climbing and hiking; swimming; deep massage; tantra sex; psilocybin microdosing. I still do all regularly but the microdosing. Still working on integration and love how your research brings that out. Live the breath example you gave. Thank you so much. Will follow you!
Same for me Tricia. I was amazed by how much I was able to process and release from my SE sessions. I am now in year two of the training and continue to see just how powerful it is.
Based on my studies, and life experiences and professional work with children 3-17, trauma cannot be released in any other way — and why traditional talk therapy in Western medical models does not work. And why our schools are failing children who are growing up in this nation and especially past 10 years.
Fierce self talk, and vagal activation, has helped me the most with integration. Also — believe it or not, my spiritual practices (too much to share here) has been pivotal.
The distinction between relaxation and reconsolidation is the one that changes everything. Most nervous system work stops at the first. Calm the dashboard. Leave the engine untouched. The belief that was set hot can only be reached hot. That is the uncomfortable truth that most of the wellness industry avoids because it cannot be packaged into a 10-minute meditation.
The part about drama versus trauma is crucial. The thousand quiet moments, the mother who was warm and then a storm, the classroom teasing that never crossed a line but never stopped. That is the water most people swim in. No single event to point to. Just a slow conditioning that becomes the architecture of perception. That is harder to treat because it is harder to see. But the mechanism is the same. The belief was written in relationship. It has to be revised in relationship. Not by handing someone a counter example. By creating the conditions where they discover it themselves, while the charge is still live.
The stress breath protocol you describe is a rare gift. Most teachers would not give that away because it is the actual lever. Up, met, down. That is the arc. Not avoidance. Not suppression. Completion. The seal at the end, the small action that the old belief would have blocked, that is the ratchet. The brain watching itself be different is the rewrite.
Thank you for this. It is rare to find someone who distinguishes between extinction and reconsolidation in public writing. Most people do not know the difference. Most practitioners do not either. That is why relapse rates are so high. Not because the client failed. Because the model stopped too early. You did not stop early. That matters.
The story controls the nervous system — not the other way around. That’s the reframe that changes everything. In relationship work I see couples who have done the communication work, the therapy, the workshops — and the old pattern keeps running underneath. Because the belief was never reached. What Jade names here — the difference between relaxation, extinction, reconsolidation and integration — is deeper than most people think. Most people stop at extinction and call it done. The real work is just beginning there.
This sounds a whole lot like Somatic Experiencing. Does this inform your work? Many thanks!
Yes indeed. Good catch. Although there is a flexibility choice here with dual task interference where somatic interventions are used to counter dissociation or logic based avoidance… whereas cognitive DTI is used to cool down emotional flooding. And of course the magic is in leading the client to a genuine prediction error you primed them to spot
SE is less into the story and more curious about the emotion/sensation in the body. I combine SE with parts work, nervous system regulation and visioning in my method. I really like what you are sharing. It's very much the lane I roll in but communicated in a different way. I find blending modalities is where the magic happens.
Agreed. My background is functional medicine and working on a PHD in transpersonal psych and my work is most arrived by research and my clinical intuition over 30 years... and interestingly enough shamanism... never formall trained in Somatics or IFS etc.... but when I teach many have told me there are strong parallels
Agree. The body keeps the score. Releasing the trauma imprints (Adverse Childhood Experiences that built the foundation) has been a journey for me and SE the most helpful. Integration, and what OPs piece addresses imo is the change maker.
I’ve never studied somatic experiencing but I have heard numerous times those who have seeing the parallels. Thank you for reading
These things released my trauma imprints: hatha yoga; mountain climbing and hiking; swimming; deep massage; tantra sex; psilocybin microdosing. I still do all regularly but the microdosing. Still working on integration and love how your research brings that out. Live the breath example you gave. Thank you so much. Will follow you!
Same for me Tricia. I was amazed by how much I was able to process and release from my SE sessions. I am now in year two of the training and continue to see just how powerful it is.
Based on my studies, and life experiences and professional work with children 3-17, trauma cannot be released in any other way — and why traditional talk therapy in Western medical models does not work. And why our schools are failing children who are growing up in this nation and especially past 10 years.
Fierce self talk, and vagal activation, has helped me the most with integration. Also — believe it or not, my spiritual practices (too much to share here) has been pivotal.
The distinction between relaxation and reconsolidation is the one that changes everything. Most nervous system work stops at the first. Calm the dashboard. Leave the engine untouched. The belief that was set hot can only be reached hot. That is the uncomfortable truth that most of the wellness industry avoids because it cannot be packaged into a 10-minute meditation.
The part about drama versus trauma is crucial. The thousand quiet moments, the mother who was warm and then a storm, the classroom teasing that never crossed a line but never stopped. That is the water most people swim in. No single event to point to. Just a slow conditioning that becomes the architecture of perception. That is harder to treat because it is harder to see. But the mechanism is the same. The belief was written in relationship. It has to be revised in relationship. Not by handing someone a counter example. By creating the conditions where they discover it themselves, while the charge is still live.
The stress breath protocol you describe is a rare gift. Most teachers would not give that away because it is the actual lever. Up, met, down. That is the arc. Not avoidance. Not suppression. Completion. The seal at the end, the small action that the old belief would have blocked, that is the ratchet. The brain watching itself be different is the rewrite.
Thank you for this. It is rare to find someone who distinguishes between extinction and reconsolidation in public writing. Most people do not know the difference. Most practitioners do not either. That is why relapse rates are so high. Not because the client failed. Because the model stopped too early. You did not stop early. That matters.
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The story controls the nervous system — not the other way around. That’s the reframe that changes everything. In relationship work I see couples who have done the communication work, the therapy, the workshops — and the old pattern keeps running underneath. Because the belief was never reached. What Jade names here — the difference between relaxation, extinction, reconsolidation and integration — is deeper than most people think. Most people stop at extinction and call it done. The real work is just beginning there.
Thanks for reading and your thoughts Marc.
You’re welcome, thank you for adding a deeper layer where action impacts the cause of the behavior.