Somatic Healing & Nervous System Reset

Whole-body healing for women recovering from betrayal trauma, abuse, and chronic stress

Deep Brain Reorienting + AT Somatic Interweaves by M. Warner

When you’ve lived through betrayal, emotional abuse, or long-term relational trauma, your body holds the story long before your mind can catch up. The shock. The bracing. The alertness. The shutdown. These aren’t personality traits. They’re survival responses.

Somatic healing helps your body release what it has been carrying so you can finally move out of survival mode and into safety.

My work integrates principles of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Alexander Technique somatic interweaves, and attuned trauma-processing practices to help your nervous system unwind shock, soften protective armoring, and reconnect to grounded presence and agency.

This work is slow, attuned, and deeply restorative...and it changes everything.

Why Somatic Work Matters

Talk therapy helps you understand your trauma.

Somatic work helps you complete it.

Trauma lives in the body.

Shock lives in the body.

Survival responses live in the body.

This is why so many betrayed partners say:

“I know I’m safe now, but my body doesn’t believe me.”

“My triggers hit before I can even think.”

“My body reacts like the trauma is still happening.”

Your nervous system remembers what overwhelmed it. Somatic work helps your body release those patterns so you can reclaim your energy, clarity, and self-trust.

As your body unwinds and reorganizes, you begin to experience:

  • more emotional regulation

  • a calmer baseline

  • less reactivity to triggers

  • a wider window of tolerance

  • a deeper connection to yourself

  • a sense of coming home to your body

This is whole-self healing.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)

The work of Dr. Frank Corrigan

DBR is a trauma-processing framework that focuses on the very beginning of the trauma sequence—the orienting reflex—before the shock response takes over. This is often the split-second when your body senses something is wrong even though your mind doesn’t yet know the full story.

When shock disrupts this reflex, the system can remain stuck in unfinished survival responses.

This can show up as:

  • panic or fear spikes

  • hypervigilance

  • emotional flooding

  • freeze or collapse responses

  • intrusive thoughts

  • chronic tension

  • difficulty calming your body

DBR-informed somatic work helps your system gently return to that pre-shock moment so it can finally complete what was overwhelmed at the time.

As shock releases:

  • the body softens

  • the nervous system settles

  • the mind clears

  • safety becomes possible again

My work is DBR-informed, meaning I incorporate Dr. Corrigan’s principles with great respect, while blending them into a broader somatic healing approach.

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“Where shock still lives, the body stays on guard. DBR helps the nervous system return to the moment before overwhelm, complete what was never finished, and release what trauma once froze so safety can finally settle in.”

Alexander Technique Somatic Interweaves

I am certified in the Alexander Technique through Martin Warner’s lineage, whose work blends classical AT with somatic interweaves specifically supportive for trauma healing.

Alexander Technique helps the body release patterns of:

  • bracing

  • holding

  • armoring

  • restricted breath

These patterns develop when the body has adapted to chronic fear or prolonged uncertainty.

Using Warner’s interweaves, sessions help you:

  • notice unconscious muscular holding

  • soften protective armoring

  • restore natural alignment and ease

  • support breath flow

  • restore natural alignment and ease

  • support breath flow

  • allow shock to move through and complete

  • return to grounded presence

Clients often describe this work as a deep exhale:

“My chest opened for the first time in years.”
“I felt like my body finally softened.”
“I didn’t know how much tension I had been holding.”

This is what returns when safety returns.

How My Somatic Work Integrates All Modalities

I am certified in Brainspotting, trained in Alexander Technique, and DBR-informed, and I integrate these modalities based on the individual needs of each client.

Having multiple somatic and trauma-processing modalities allows me to:

  • attune more precisely to the client

  • follow the body’s cues instead of a rigid method

  • choose the right approach moment-by-moment

  • support deeper nervous system release

  • honor each client’s pace, capacity, and safety

Brainspotting taught me that the body and midbrain know exactly where trauma is stored and how to process it. Alexander Technique helps unwind the bracing patterns around that trauma. DBR helps the system access the root shock. Together, they create a powerful, gentle, whole-body approach.

You don’t have to choose a modality.

Your body tells us what it needs.

My job is to listen and integrate.

Who This Work Helps

This body-based approach is especially supportive for women who:

  • feel stuck in emotional or somatic trauma responses

  • experience chronic tension, shutdown, or overwhelm

  • struggle to regulate after betrayal or emotional abuse

  • feel unsafe in their body even after leaving the relationship

  • want deeper healing than talk therapy alone

  • want to reconnect with their intuition and higher self

Your body is not the barrier to your healing.

Your body is the path.

Who This Work Helps

Brainspotting remains an important part of my skillset and often complements DBR and AT-based somatic work beautifully.

As a certified Brainspotting practitioner, I use its principles to:

  • identify activation in the nervous system

  • support deeper attunement and presence

  • access brain-body processing pathways

  • enhance precision in somatic sessions

Even when I’m not doing “formal” Brainspotting, the attunement, dual-attention, and neurobiological understanding that Brainspotting teaches are woven into every session.

It is not my primary modality now, but it absolutely enhances the work and enriches the client’s healing experience.

Ready to Explore Somatic Healing?

Healing after betrayal isn’t about willpower or pushing yourself harder.
It’s about helping your body feel safe again.

If you’re curious whether this somatic approach is right for you, I offer a complimentary consultation where we can explore what your nervous system is needing and what support might look like.

Your body already knows how to heal.
I’d love to help you reconnect with that wisdom.

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