Therapeutically resistant?

Maybe not!

Let's consider some aspects:

1) That feeling of safety can take a few months to kick in. A lot goes into therapeutic safety. It isn't just having no threat present. It contains trust, and some level of attachment. This is important, and although the body will start to heal almost immediately, feeling unsafe is like having a foot on the brake, so creeping forward rather than with an speed. As one not only relaxes into the somatic experience, and gains some trust, the foot comes off the brake. One of my favorite physics lessons takes over!

2) At Raise Your Resilience we meet weekly, and the somatic work is for the first month at least, only 5 minutes. And no talking about your past. Or remembering it. A little bit of homework.

3) To be taken for granted. Trauma is being stuck in the state of survival - fight/flight/freeze, all three, and/or vascillating between freeze and fight/flight. The somatic work slowly brings us back out of these states.

4) From the very first session. See #1.

5) The body always wants to go back to it's natural state of health and growth. Defensive states take us out of health and growth. Current situations and environments need to be considered. However, my teacher has taught in war zones. One thing to consider here is drug use. I ended a client work because they were high too often. It interferes with presence. If the client insists on the drug use, then it isn't the right time. Another inhibiting factor can be the use of too many modalities. This doesn't help the body regulate. My observations over the last 8 years or so has been they do the opposite. It's less a matter of having tried a lot of things to heal. I did that. It's about doing too many at once.

6) See #1 and #4.

And yes, we do create armor (Protector part). Not only do we protect from further hurt, we then protect those things that we think make up our identity. These paths need to be walked side by side. I've been there. I know these paths. I've been there. See that "path?" That's not a path for you or I. It's a deer trail. And on my birthday some years ago, my brother called me as I thought I was on a trail and wasn't. It was a deer trail, and so I was lost. (I'm telling my brother this as I orient) I struck out to my perception east based on the Sun, and finally hit the road I thought would be there. Just a lot further south than I anticipated. The point? Just a story to illustrate the idea of once you learn to navigate the landscape of healing, you'll be able to meander these deer trails on your own. It can be rewarding!