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When we experience trauma, it doesn't just affect our minds – it leaves an imprint on our entire being. Our bodies hold these experiences in subtle yet profound ways, from tension patterns in our tissues to shifts in our nervous system's baseline state. While talk therapy plays a vital role in trauma recovery, many people find that including bodywork like Craniosacral Therapy can support deeper levels of healing.
Gentle Bodywork for Trauma Recovery and PTSD
What makes Craniosacral Therapy particularly powerful for trauma healing is its extraordinarily gentle approach. There's no forcing or manipulation – just light, precise touch that helps your system remember its natural state of balance and ease. This gentleness is crucial because it allows your body to feel deeply safe – perhaps for the first time since the traumatic event you experienced or since the traumatic period in your life came to a close.
Creating Safety for Deep Trauma Healing
During sessions, your nervous system has the opportunity to gradually shift out of survival mode – that heightened state of fight, flight, or freeze that often persists long after trauma. As your system remembers what safety feels like, you may notice changes both subtle and profound: better sleep, decreased anxiety, less hypervigilance, reduced startle response, and a greater sense of presence in your body.
Releasing Trauma Stored in the Body
Craniosacral Therapy also helps release tension patterns that may be holding trauma in your tissues. This release happens at your body's own pace – you're always in control, and the work never pushes beyond what feels manageable for your system. Many clients find that this gradual unwinding of physical tension corresponds with emotional release and a growing sense of freedom from the past.
Perhaps most importantly, this work helps rebuild your relationship with your body. Trauma often creates a sense of disconnection or betrayal with our own system. Through regular sessions, you can begin to restore trust in your body, developing a greater sense of safety, boundaries, and embodied presence.
The deep state of relaxation achieved during sessions also helps regulate the sleep disturbances that often accompany PTSD. As your nervous system finds more balance, you may find yourself sleeping more deeply and feeling more rested – crucial factors in ongoing trauma recovery and healing.
Communities I Serve
If you would like to experience the healing power of Craniosacral Therapy, I would love to have you for a session. My practice is located in West Nashville, and I serve the communities of Davidson and Williamson County - including Green Hills, West Meade, Belle Meade, Bellevue, Sylvan Park, The Nations, Wedgewood Houston, East Nashville, Edgehill, Oak Hill, Berry Hill, Brentwood, Nolensville, and Franklin, and Leipers Fork, Tennessee.
