Spiritual expansion
A terrific clinical supervisor of mine in NY used to say that therapy is about 2 people getting better and one of them getting paid for it. 
One of the greatest gifts that I have received as a result of choosing to be a therapist, bodyworker and healer is that it requires me to do my own healing work on a regular basis. Moreover, I must be connected more and more with spirit to allow the growth to happen, which also means that I have to be more connected to my body, and grounded, to maintain balance.
This is even more true because I work with the body. JL Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, said, “The body remembers what the mind forgets.” People often have memories in their bodies – a feeling, a sensation – and they can’t attach the story to it. Our bodies and minds work brilliantly together to protect us from pain and harm, and there are some things that we just don’t want to remember. Our bodies also help us to disconnect, or dissociate, from painful memories, thoughts and experiences.
When we use a method like Psychodramatic Bodywork® – a combination of psychodrama and the principles of Chinese medicine – we go deep into the wounding that we’ve experienced, and can clear it much faster. I co-facilitated a workshop using this method this past weekend, and the 3 days of work we did together was like 5 years of therapy for each person in that room. It was extraordinary. And the clearing of the pain and trauma by the participants will allows them to step more fully into their own power and connection to spirit, because we’ve removed the fear block and allowed them to come into their truth.
Part of that connection to spirit is learning how to trust our intuition. For many of us, intuition – that deep sense of knowing – was “taken away” from us early on with messages like, “No, that’s not what you’re feeling, you’re feeling this…” As we get more grounded in our bodies and more connected to spirit, we begin to trust that knowing and begin to follow through on the spiritual direction that is given. And isn’t that what recovery is all about?
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