I’m so excited to share this interview with somatic therapist and hypnotherapist Jessica Benstock! Jessica was my guide and mentor through an incredible trauma-informed somatic certification called The Phoenix Path last year. Her depth of knowledge and experience with multiple healing modalities is amazing.
In this episode, Jessica shares:
- Her journey into hypnotherapy, shamanic work, meditation and somatic therapy
- Perspectives on watching somatic work become more mainstream over the last 10+ years
- How she brings together techniques from different healing approaches
- Using parts work, somatics and hypnotherapy for trauma healing
- Why she was drawn to help others through deep emotional and somatic work
Tune in and be a part of this enlightening and empowering conversation!
You can read the full podcast transcript for this episode below:
Full Transcript
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Right.
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Welcome to the Fully Expressed Podcast with Karenna.
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I am so excited for today’s conversation because I have a very special person coming on to the podcast.
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As many of, you know, I went through a somatic trauma informed somatic certification last year called the Phoenix Path.
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And my mentor and teacher had is with us today.
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Jessica Benstock.
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Jessica is not only such an amazing human on all ends.
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She has truly, I feel like, I mean, yes, Jess is just simply, I don’t know, you just live so much of everything that you teach and the capacity that you hold is absolutely incredible.
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And the depth and the teachings that you’ve brought to the Phoenix Path has been absolutely amazing.
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So for everyone that’s listening, I do have Jessica Benstock on here with me, Jess.
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Hi, Jess.
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How are you?
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I’m so good.
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I’m so good.
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Yeah, I truly meant like having you here is such a special thing for me because the Phoenix Path truly was like the solidifying piece to like a lot of my healing journey as just an individual, not even for what I was truly going for, which is what I, what I loved about the Phoenix path, right?
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So for those listening, what the reason why I chose the Phoenix path as the Somatic trauma informed certification that I wanted to go through was I didn’t want someone just to teach me the, the teachings.
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I wanted to experience the teachings and actually go through it so I can actually experience it as a client and truly actually embody what I was learning.
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And that was one of the biggest gifts that the Phoenix back gave me.
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And I really think it’s a testament to just like where you’re at and how much you’ve embodied and how much you’ve been able to show.
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And so I just am so grateful for that program and that opportunity to work with you for like it was six months in total, but we had a month in between.
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So we felt like 6 to 7 months, almost like a whole year.
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Yeah.
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It’s funny how it’s the Phoenix path is like half a year, but scaled out, especially because they have the retreat at the beginning and the retreat at the end feels a lot longer and it feels like that to me too.
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I’m always surprised when we get to the end of a session and I’m like, oh, that wasn’t a whole year, but that definitely felt like a whole year, right?
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It did and, and as much as it felt like, how do I say this?
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