The Physiology of Resilience – Somatic Trauma Healing as a Way of Reclaiming Our Humanity

Understanding the somatics (of the body) of both trauma and resilience has the potential to transform a survivors’ healing journey. Reframing our body’s acute and ongoing responses to trauma as rooted within instinctual survival patterns can create an empowering influence in how survivors relate to themselves and embody their life. Importantly, expanding access to physio-education about how the body handles and heals overwhelming experiences can create a societal shift in how we view and respond to individual, systemic, and historical forms of trauma that continuously shape our lives. Drawing from a combination of her own sexual trauma healing journey, medical and legal advocacy work, trauma-informed yoga teaching, and her Somatic Experiencing studies, Molly will share how trauma responses understood as resilience responses remind us that healing is an ongoing, organic process of emergence – a practice of yielding to and embracing the language of our individual and collective bodies as a foundation for restoring our individual and collective humanity.