A Quick Somatic Tool For Divorce Stress
About this episode
Karin Nelson discusses a somatic tool to help manage stress after divorce.
Your body isn’t “being dramatic” after divorce, it’s doing its best to protect you. When your nervous system gets stuck in fight-or-flight or shutdown, you can feel tense, numb, hyper-alert, or exhausted. I'll walk you through a simple somatic practice that helps you feel safe in your body again without overthinking your way out of stress. I teach pendulation, a nervous system regulation tool from Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing work. The idea is really simple: notice a place of discomfo...
People in this episode
Host: Karin Nelson
Topics covered
- divorce
- somatic practice
- nervous system regulation
- stress management
- self-care
Keywords
- divorce stress
- somatic experiencing
- nervous system
- pendulation
- self improvement
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