Somatic Attachment healing & coaching

Human beings are inherently oriented to connection and relationships. We are relational beings. This is reflected in our nervous system, body, mind, personality and brain structure. Our early developmental experiences lay the ground for how we develop - how we see ourselves, one another and the world at large. When we experienced ruptures or breaks in the sense of healthy, safe connection with our primary caregivers and community, we experience deep pain, loneliness and agony. These experiences were often repetitive and instilled a pattern of nervous system dysregulation in the individual. We then develop coping mechanisms to manage the pain and dysregulation we experience. These coping strategies then become the foundation of how we relate to ourselves and the world. These coping strategies help us survive but often at a cost.

In these sessions I guide my clients into an experiential exploration of these deeper patterns in the body and nervous system and build healthy strategies to repair the underlying sense of disconnection, loneliness and grief. When we gradually build the inner parent in our own system, our ability to self-regulate in places where we lose inner stability improves dramatically. This creates the firm internal foundation for a secure sense of self that can engage their life from an inner sense of security and thus express their authenticity and full aliveness. Often changes in self-image, relationship dynamics and creativity, purpose and work occur as a result.

What does a session look like?

Our past experiences live in us even today in the form of an energetic, physical, neurological hit. They can be healed in the now through the proper application of awareness, attainment, and various expressions of love; experienced through the body

The sessions begin with an intake process where the client shares with me their main challenges in life. We carefully go over the person's history and begin honing into the way the challenge is emerging in the body. After the preliminary intake, the client will be guided into a meditative state to explore the inner workings of their current challenge. Mark begins to scan and track the deeper underlying patterns in the body of the client on a subtle level as well as guiding the client themselves to become aware of their inner experience. We inquire into the inner experience together, and by tracking and asking questions, we allow the body to tell us what kind of pattern and memory is being stored in the tissues. 

The gradual excavation process into the felt experience of the client will eventually reveal the deeper patterns of how the body, mind, neurological system and "energy" body is holding and repeating a pattern of pain. Mark then employs the appropriate antidote or remedial technique that helps that aspect of one's being that is in pain begin to generate an experience of release and resolution.  Sessions are about 55 minutes long.