We Are Blood Cycle Driven

Have you ever tried to think your way through something painful?
To talk about it. Rationalise it. Push through it.

It’s what most of us were taught to do.

But the body tells a different story.

Somatic Experiencing, developed by Dr Peter Levine, is a body-based approach to healing trauma.
It doesn’t start with thoughts or analysis. It begins with sensation. With noticing. With feeling.

The work is gentle. Slow. Rooted in the understanding that your nervous system holds memories that words alone can’t reach.

In my own practice, I’ve seen how this way of working helps women come home to themselves — not by fixing, but by listening.

As Bessel van der Kolk wrote in The Body Keeps the Score, the body remembers what the mind forgets.

And for many of us, especially as women, that remembering can be uncomfortable at first.

We’ve spent years avoiding our body.
Painful period? Medicated.
Painful birth? Medicated.
Painful menopause? Often the same story.

It’s not our fault.

We live in systems that taught us to mute pain rather than meet it. To move on instead of move through.

But healing begins when we start to turn toward the body again — safely, gently, without judgement.

Something shifts.

The body exhales.
The nervous system finds its rhythm.
And the energy that was once locked in survival begins to flow again.

This isn’t about trying harder.
It’s about listening differently.

When we listen, the body begins to trust again.

This is the quiet beginning of healing — not through effort, but through presence.

If something in these words stirs a knowing inside you, perhaps it’s your body’s way of saying, I’m ready.

Ready to be felt.
Ready to be heard.
Ready to come home.

If you’re curious about how this approach might support you, I offer sessions that weave Somatic Experiencing with women’s body wisdom and gentle, trauma-informed care.

You’re welcome to reach out, or simply begin by noticing what your body is whispering today.