Where do YOUR needs show up in your body? Since we love somatic imagery and body puns, In SPRe, we think the knees often represent our needs.

Knees that suddenly start hurting when we feel overwhelmed or overworked; knees that become inflamed and swollen when we are enraged; knee ligaments that snap when we feel out of our depth, or are needing a break.

If you listened to your knees, what do you think they’d tell you?

Without the invested listener that asks and offers we can’t build the muscles we need to live and thrive in the real world.

Data alone doesn’t build strength, data with connection to another can.

As someone with a long-haul, stress-related disease, I think people with Long Covid might be experiencing something similar.

What if we thought about treating it with somatic, trauma-informed modalities, as well as Western medicine?

I wonder how many of us quit movement programs because room for feelings, and this potential for understanding, isn’t built into the session, or our relationship with the trainer?

What if SPRe could make room in your body to allow feelings and history to be listened to, and integrated, so that movement and exercise can be enjoyable and sensations that come up can be understandable!

The roots of my story.

What if a mask hides you from yourself, as well as other people? This immobility served its purpose - if they can’t distinguish what I’m feeling, I get to feel invisible. The flip side is that it also distanced me from my inner state; what I was feeling, and what I was feeling about the person I was talking to.

The question, “Where do you feel that in your body?” can be more difficult for dissociated people to answer than most people realize.