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Ariadne Thompson
Licensed Psychotherapist, MFT #87614

Why Include the Body?
The mind, by its very nature, is like a fly. It constantly buzzing around, landing on different things. It never stays still, it reacts and then quickly makes meaning of anything it sees, and then the feelings have a reaction to whatever the mind interprets of the situation.
I studied and read so much throughout the years about the mind, behaviors, trauma, patterns, addictions, self-image, and more. Things we all have a relationship with, want to change or understand. These kinds of understanding and knowledge are important and useful. However, over the years in my own inner exploraiton, I began to see that they were limited. To think about myself, how to change what I didn't like, how to try to feel better about myself,
No matter how well I seemed to do, there would invariably be things I didn't like about myself, or the way that I had acted in the situation. So the "esteem" I seemed to have built wouldl be immediately impacted. This put me at the whim of how well I seemed to do out in the world, with others, professionally, etc.
I began to study Breema Bodywork in 2013, and this is where things started to change for me. Here was a practice that was helping me begin to experience myself, but not from the constantly moving and changing mind, but from the ground of my body. I began to work with unifying my three centers, body, mind, and feelings, instead of always letting the mind lead me around and dictate everything.
This caused a Center to begin to develop in me, a ground I had a real relationship with. So no matter what was happening outside of me, I would call on this inner relationship, and meet life very differently.
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