Move into Your Body for a Deeply Nourished Life
M-Bodied® Somatic Therapy helps people with depression and anxiety, food and eating issues, addictions, parenting and romantic relationships.
Body-based Psychotherapy, Somatic Movement Therapy & Education, and Intuitive Eating Counseling for Individuals, Parents, Families & Romantic Partners in Atlanta
M-Bodied Therapy helps you to reconnect with your body wisdom for healing, presence, satisfaction, a renewed sense of aliveness, and healthier relationships.
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, a relationally based somatic approach, offers a blend of somatic and cognitive techniques based on nervous system science, attachment theory and developmental movement patterns.
*When “Mother” is referenced, we are inviting the “mothering quality of oxytocin,” which plays a major role in signaling safety within our Social Engagement system functioning as related to nervous system science. Therefore, those who identify as female, male, or non-binary may offer and embody that “Mother” quality.
Specialties
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Eating, Drinking, Exercise & Body Image
If food, weight, chronic emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, bingeing, purging, restricting, or perhaps alcohol or other substances are becoming concerning, M-Bodied can help by offering relationally-based somatic and cognitive techniques grounded in science and nourishing for your life energy.
We all have to eat, and it should be intuitive, pleasurable and satisfying. But diet culture and oppressive systems try to keep people small over and over.
When people of all genders, all ages/stages, have a hard time listening to their body’s signals/hungers, the actual food or “behavior” or blockage is not the problem, nothing is “wrong” with anyone at their core, the struggle is actually trying to lead you toward your unique self, your unique hungers! 🌟
M-Bodied Therapy offers an invitational, non-diet and Healthy at Every Size approach as well as Intuitive Eating Counseling.
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Parent & Family Therapy
Multi-generational patterning, what the body, brain and bones know from the longtime systems and environments in which raise each generation, often sets the course for how the next generation is shaped or supported.
Parents, caregivers and elders, get to learn, in an experiential way, how to better “catch, connect, and channel” their own energy in an effort to be the steady holding environment to their children through all the inevitable pushes and pulls.
When children have challenging behaviors and big feelings, M-Bodied offers trauma-sensitive, neuroaffirming, body-based practices and cognitive approaches for parents to practice to then offer to their children.
This relational approach helps provide co-regulation and reconnection that benefit the whole family.
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Somatic Therapy for Romantic Partners
Whether you desire relational repair, want better communication, need the bickering to stop, or wish for more spark in your romantic relationship, M-Bodied offers relational and attachment-based somatic practices that go beyond words.
When partners need to repair, recharge and nourish their relationship, M-Bodied helps them to recognize their cycles and patterns that keep them stuck, and then they get to somatically experience how to move stuck energy/patterns such that they feel more self-supported and yet romantically aligned.
The M-Bodied somatic approach for romantic partners, based in the embodiment method Chi for Two®, deepens other verbal couples counseling approaches by bringing the nuances of energetics, bodily awareness and nervous system science that promote an embodied sense of aliveness, maturity and enthusiasm for your romantic dance!
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Relational Somatic Therapy
Maybe traditional talk therapy has helped, but you need in-the-moment practices for managing stress, reducing anxiety, feeling more empowered, nervous system support, deeper healing, and accessing your body wisdom.
Perhaps you crave a deepening of other healing modalities you continue to practice.
With relational therapeutic support providing the invitation for new ways of moving, feeling and being, one might experience “is it safe to move this way now?” or “could more of me show up and be known?” Over time, this previously inhibited movement expression can more ease-fully shift into nervous system regulation.
M-Bodied is grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two, a multi-generational trauma healing method, which offers somatic movement practices that are relational and developmental, grounded in attachment theory and nervous system science.
What is Embodiment?
Embodiment is an experience, an ongoing and mindful process of inhabiting your body and environment with the capacity to deepen relationship with your self and others.
While embodiment involves various types of awarenesses (interoceptive, exteroceptive, proprioceptive, neuroceptive) it’s also the experience of aliveness, your capacity to live consciously in your corporeal body when your physiological functioning allows. This affords you connection with your body’s wisdom, your chi, your life force, your core sense of self, to feel more equipped to ride the waves of life with more sustainability, nourishment and satisfaction.
The experience of embodiment includes a variety of movement expressions: steady, present, ready, solid, expressive, an aliveness that is not just calm or restorative. When we sense overwhelm, which happens because we are human beings who experience varying degrees of stressful times, our capacity to be present and engaged decreases as survival or defense mechanisms create physiological and psychological changes for survival.
We learn how okay it is to embody, to be present in an exploratory way, to have and express big feelings, to live with a variety of movement expressions, during our earliest experiences of life. The degree to which our early relational experiences and environments tended to our physiological and relational needs to connect and separate, as well as our multi-generational patterning, set a foundation for our nervous system patterning, movement expression, and relational dances.
However, no one gets what is ideal. Sometimes we need reparative experiences to reconnect with our core self in an effort for a more embodied and present journey through life along with healthier relational dances with others. A robust movement vocabulary, exploring a rich quality of embodiment based on developmental and relational patterns, helps us to be who we could be if we are loved no matter what.
M-Bodied Therapy offers attachment-based, reparative somatic movement practices that celebrate all feelings as well as all movement and energetic expressions. This body-mind-spirit approach helps clients to learn how their feelings and body wisdom serve as signals toward deep nourishment rather than symptoms to shut down.
M-Bodied Therapy is grounded in the principles and practices of the trauma healing and mindful embodiment method Chi for Two®, an ISMETA Approved Training Program.
Chi for Two (Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational) is a synthesis of many trauma healing modalities and offers that “trauma” is less about what happened and more about the inhibited movement expression.
Chi for Two offers "trauma healing" as the awakening of the movements that have become inhibited over many, many generations, and the integrating of those movements into our movement vocabulary mobilized by the nervous system state Play/Dance. Therefore, trauma healing can become health-creating.
M-Bodied® as a Mothering Metaphor
M-Bodied appreciates the intersection of attachment theory, trauma healing informed by nervous system science, and developmental movement and relational patterns to help connect the dots and symbolically redo body-mind areas of focus that need re-patterning for healthy functioning. Ultimately, the relational somatic practices serve as “holding environments”, or Circles of Support, and serve as mothering metaphors for symbolic redos, a pathway to birth one’s inner parent, one’s ability to self-handle, to self-regulate.
When “Mother” is referenced, we are inviting the “mothering quality of oxytocin,” which plays a major role in signaling safety within our Social Engagement system functioning as related to nervous system science. Therefore, those who identify as female, male, or non-binary may offer and embody that “Mother” quality.
M-Bodied is offered through psychotherapy in the state of Georgia or embodiment coaching and somatic movement education worldwide. M-Bodied is grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two®, a mindful embodiment method that synthesizes many trauma healing methods and is an ISMETA-Approved Training Program.
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
—Marion Woodman, Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure
