What happens when trauma becomes so deeply embedded that we lose connection with our own bodies?
In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with embodiment coach, somatic movement educator and holistic trauma therapist Sara Carter about complex PTSD, dissociation and the long journey back towards safety and embodied trust.
Sara describes a period of chronic pain, severe fatigue, insomnia and night terrors that eventually forced her to recognise how disconnected she had become from her body. Through somatic movement, breath, energy work and studying trauma, she began understanding shutdown and dissociation not as personal failure, but as survival responses. Pasted text
Sara also speaks with extraordinary openness about rape, childhood trauma, domestic violence, shame and the experience of not being believed. She describes how freeze and tonic immobility became familiar survival patterns, and how the effects of trauma continued long after the events themselves. Pasted text
Piers and Sara explore the importance of movement as medicine, healthy rage, vulnerability, speaking out, accountability and creating conditions in which both survivors and those willing to take responsibility for causing harm can change.
They also discuss boarding school, complex PTSD, emotional suppression, relationships, masculinity and the possibility of creating a safer legacy for future generations.
A profound conversation about trauma, the body, safety, connection and reclaiming life after dissociation.
Content note: Detailed discussion of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Find Piers:
https://piers-cross.com
For more info: https://sara-white.com/
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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.
He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.
He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1
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Many blessings,
Piers Cross
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