Somatic healing vs talk therapy: learn how each works, where each helps, and why body-based methods can create shifts insight alone may not. You can understand exactly why you feel stuck and still feel stuck. That is the tension at the heart of somatic healing vs talk therapy. One works primarily through words, insight and meaning. The other starts with sensation, breath, movement and the nervous system. Both can help. But they do not help in the same way. For many people, talk therapy brings clarity without full relief. You can name the pattern, trace it to childhood, explain it brilliantly to your therapist, and still feel your chest tighten in conflict, your jaw…
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