Trauma shapes how we live—organizing our lives as if the past is still happening. The body holds onto these experiences, leaving us disconnected from our most powerful resource: our felt sense.

In this episode, we will go through the profound connection between your body and mind. We’ll explore how mindlessness—ignoring your felt sense—keeps you stuck in cycles of stress, disconnection, and unresolved trauma. Drawing from the work of trauma experts like Peter Levine and Gabor Maté, we’ll uncover how tuning into your felt sense is the gateway to healing and self-awareness.

You’ll learn:

• What the felt sense is and why it’s crucial for trauma healing.
• How your body’s natural instincts—when trusted—can guide you toward repair and resilience.
• Practical insights to reconnect with your body and start releasing stored trauma.
• Healing begins when we stop overanalyzing trauma and start trusting our biology.
• Your body is a biological marvel, capable of self-healing when we allow it to complete its natural processes.

Let this episode be your starting point to restoring the balance between your body and mind. Together, we’ll move toward a state of integration, clarity, and wholeness.

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We're going through a psychedelic therapy revival.

Join psychotherapist Todd Brossart as he introduces the Somacology channel and discusses some of his personal journey following a near-death injury and the innovative practices that helped him reconnect with his body and mind.

Gain insights into:

• The felt sense as a critical pathway to accessing the body’s innate ability to process and resolve trauma.
• The role of Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Therapy (PSIP) in addressing deeply rooted trauma that conventional therapeutic approaches often fail to resolve.
• The potential consequences of unprocessed trauma, including mental health challenges and physical health conditions, and how somatic healing provides a pathway toward recovery.

Through a combination of personal experiences, professional expertise, and practical applications, Todd illuminates ways to treat trauma and increase psychological flexibility for sustainable growth. Whether you are a mental health professional, an individual seeking deeper understanding of trauma resolution, or someone interested in exploring psychedelic therapies, this video provides valuable perspectives and actionable knowledge.

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If you could have a conversation with yourself back when you started your career in healthcare, what would you say? What does that person need to know in order to sustain their mental health over the arch of their career? Would you talk to them about naivete? Or how to approach one's naivete as it comes up in their career? Consider where you're at today in your career. Would you be willing to talk to yourself about owning your naivete?

After 12 years of working in a large hospital setting, in outpatient mental health and substance use disorders clinics, I can admit that I naively behaved and spoke as though I was exempt from the stressors of life, and the stressors on the job. I was naïve to how things would eventually start to breakdown in my personal life. Which they eventually did. Some of the breakdowns were preventable, but my naivete interfered with seeing clearly.

I reference the following paper during the podcast:

Self-awareness Questions for Effective Psychotherapists: Helping Good Psychotherapists Become Even Better” by Samuel Knapp, Michael Gottlieb and Mitchell Handelsman.

The questions they encourage providers to consider to assist in becoming more self-aware:

1. Do I recognize my immediate emotional reactions?
2. Do I judge my competencies accurately?
3. Do I recognize that I might harbor implicit prejudices?
4. Am I aware that I might succumb to cognitive biases or unhelpful heuristics?
5. Am I fully aware of my values?

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