Working With Trauma In The Body

Trauma lives in the body — often in the places where we once couldn’t feel. Through gentle and compassionate awareness, we can begin to meet these parts of ourselves and restore the natural flow of our energy. In this article, I share how working with trauma in the body can become a path of deep healing and transformation through the Embodied Power Method.

Understanding Trauma As Energy In The Body

Thankfully there is a lot more awareness in our society about the prevalence of trauma, and its impact.

It does bring up the question of ‘‘how can I work with my own trauma’’?

To begin, it’s important to understand that trauma is energy that is stuck in the body. Often, it happened at a moment when we were unable to feel what was happening.

Usually, feeling is a process that moves through us, like a river flowing. But when we are unable to feel, because our nervous system doesn’t have capacity for it, the pain gets stuck. We are unable to feel it, and let it move through.

So often it has a layer of protection - a trauma response, to make sure we don’t revisit those experiences. The body associates it with something dangerous.

Why The Body Protects Us

And the body is wired to be more interested in our survival, then our spiritual wellbeing in these contexts. So it creates a layer of protection to make sure we don’t go back to this pain.

Now, the issue is that we do and we will feel this pain at any moment in our life when that pain gets triggered. Immediately, our body moves back into that protection mechanism to brace for it.

Often, when we are in a trauma response like that, we are deeply disconnected from our felt senses, our capacity to be present. That response is designed to have our awareness leave our body to survive.

So it creates repetitive painful situations that makes us feel out of control.

So how can we bring a deep meaningful transformation through the body?

Reconnecting Through The Embodied Power Method

When I work with women with my approach, the Embodied Power Method, I always invite them to approach their own trauma very gently.

This is not something that we can fix quickly, this is an experience to approach slowly, and with a lot of compassion for yourself. The impacts of trauma may be very uncomfortable and maybe something you want to transform with a lot of passion.

It’s only important to remember there is most likely a terrified part of you that is in pain, and it won’t open with anything like intensity or force.

The Embodied Power Method is about embodying this transformation. It’s not about reaching a particular goal, but rather about experiencing this transformation in the body.

Creating Safety And Building Capacity

What I invite my clients to begin with is to connect with the sensations in their body, and to grow into a deep connection to the energy in themselves. Feeling the lifeforce moving through them.

In doing so we create an anchor in the body, a space that feels safe.

From there, we can slowly begin to bring back a memory when we had that trauma response, for example, when our mother gets angry, when our partner disconnects, when our child goes into a tantrum, etc.

As we consciously feel the sensations in our body, we can begin to connect with the experience of the trauma response. Meet it, be with it.

Opening The Door To Healing

In that connection there is a realisation that it doesn’t have to take us out of control, that we can build our capacity to be with it, to feel it.

As I guide my clients to feel an internal sense of safety, we can begin to slowly open the door to their painful experience.

Doing so allows them to have a chance to release the emotions that are stuck there. To meet these parts of themselves that have been hurt, so they can finally heal.

Work With Me

If you are interested in working with me, you can book an Initial Connection Call so we can discuss your journey and how I can best support you. If you are ready to dive in, you can book an Embodied Power Coaching Session.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What does it mean to work with trauma through the body?

  Working with trauma in the body means meeting the sensations, emotions, and memories that are stored in our physical being — rather than only talking about them. It’s a somatic approach that allows healing to happen through presence, compassion, and gentle awareness.

• How is the Embodied Power Method different from traditional therapy?

  The Embodied Power Method focuses on connecting to your felt sense, intuition, and life force energy moving through you. Instead of analyzing your story, we explore what your body holds — allowing emotional release and transformation to happen from within. It can beautifully complement therapy or other healing paths.

• Can I start working with my trauma on my own?

  Yes, you can begin simply by bringing attention to sensations in your body and noticing what feels safe. Creating that internal anchor is the first step. From there, working with a guide can help you move deeper, gently and safely, at your own rhythm.