Somatics comes from the Greek word "soma" which literally means body. 

So somatics is the use of various tools and techniques to find ways to connect with our bodies, and not stay just stuck in our heads. 

Our bodies hold so much wisdom, and quite literally are older than our brains. Our hearts are formed before our brains, our guts are formed before our brains - they know so much better than our brains do. Our brains are wonderful, beautiful, conscious, aware parts of us, that enable us to connect with what's going on for us. But they also are still in evolution and all work in different ways. Our pre frontal cortex doesn't even develop fully until were 25, or even older if we're neurodivergent. Our amygdalas are the oldest part of our brains and mostly focused on survival. These are the parts that are most developed. So if our amygdalas are running our lives, just trying to survive in a world not designed for us and sometimes actively threatening us, no wonder we're stuck somewhere that doesn't feel like we fit.

Somatics gives us ways, hacks, tools, new understandings, to come back to the deeper wisdom of our bodies. This is also where we hold trauma, and our body responses to that. So there's a need to go gently, slowly, with this connecting. It is led by you and your body and where you're at. 

The relationship we have with ourselves is the hardest but most fulfilling we can have. It's the only one we'll have our whole lives. Learning to work with our bodies and brains and not against them, learning what supports and not hinders, learning our boundaries and and how to hold them, learning not to people please but to know our own needs and wants, enables us to respond differently, gives us more resilience, more space, and ultimately reduces the chaos of meltdowns/shutdowns, huge emotional reactions, fully body disregulation, burnout. and other things that happen to us and we don't necessarily know why. 

It enables us to live life in a way more designed for us, rather than constantly trying to mask and fit into boxes not designed for us. Somatics is the way you come home to yourself and learn to live in an authentic, aligned and supported way. 

It's the way to wholeness. You are not broken, there is nothing to fix, there is nothing wrong with you. This journey is remembering that and allowing your fullness, your wholeness, your bright bright light to shine without anyone's box on top of you.