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CranioSacral therapy is our primary focus, versus a body-worker offering CST who has had one or two classes for continuing education. We have gone through the rigorous process of CST certification and continue to immerse ourselves in the study and practice of it. This allows us to work with delicate circumstances such as with newborns and traumatic brain injuries.
We also have a background, previous to our CST careers, in the study of trauma and emotional wellness. From reading books such as "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk and many others, we knew we needed to help release these traumas from the body's tissues in addition to talking about their experience. The body has a tissue memory of the event also! This added piece of mental/emotional training has equipped us with a greater capacity to offer a calm therapeutic presence for clients as they renegotiate their traumas and perceptions.
No, emotional work does not have to be a part of a session. You decide what you want help with. This is your journey. We are simply a resource. We do not profess to know what is best for you. You have within you an innate wisdom by a Divine Creator guiding your process of coming Home. As therapists we see ourselves as a symbolic Good Samaritan, an assisting resource, that your spirit and God can use to help get you to the "Inn" where your Savior can teach and heal. We offer a nonjudgmental, compassionate space one can go when feeling a bit "bruised and beat up" by the circumstances of life. We are there if you want to share what you are feeling or simply there to help you work out the physical tensions and knots from these experiences. You decide.
Yes, it is possible! We are built for this! We are spirit children of God with an innate wisdom to help us connect and communicate with every part of ourselves (body, mind, and spirit) and with God. The incorrect perceptions we create about God and ourselves blocks our ability to feel God's messages and love. These perceptions are behind the shame and protective masks we carry. The Savior offers to help us change our perceptions for truth, so we can be mask-free and have the True Source of protection and peace. We feel one with Him and who we really are: a soul at one. Dis-ease goes away because you feel peace/ease.
Your body is communicating pain and dis-ease because something you are believing and doing isn't in harmony with truth. As you let yourself be still, feel these messages from the body, and connect with God, you can get to the root of what is bringing about dis-ease and restore body, mind, and spirit back to health, truth, and love.