Claudia Black

Claudia Black Instagram – My life was crashing hard and I really needed to function; the stakes could not have been higher. A friend at my sons’ school told me -out of the mystical blue – about a workshop Gina was holding for people in media and intuited that I should attend. Bless you @sabineelgemayel Bless you. I showed up that weekend with no clue as to what would unfold there, nor for me personally. I remember my jaw dropping as Gina discussed many aspects of SE and her work; the Trauma Vortex and a counter Vortex ( which she personally calls a Healing Vortex) within us all, as individuals and in the collective. She said that members of the media needed to understand this as we are generally feeding one or the other with our stories. Gina went on to explain that in conflict resolution we cannot hear each other or experience empathy for others if we ourselves are highly activated. SE and her tool Emotion Aid could help people in real time to down-regulate, empty and flush their systems and then listen more; and once we are more empty our cognition changes too, as do our stories. As a senior Somatic Experiencing Educator and founder of The Trauma Institute, Gina uses many SE tools in her private practice and global work and I could tell she had this burn Inside her to help the world and minimize suffering. This woman blew my mind. She needed a volunteer to demonstrate one of the tools. My hand shot up. I’d been having trouble getting back to sleep between 2-4 am each night for a month. She asked a basic SE question. And a whole process opened up. The event had been a recent home invasion. Rather than rehashing the whole event which could have been re-traumatizing, she guided me through my body to release any trapped energy as it came up. “Chick-Chack,” she said ( easy-peasy) and she was right. My sleep normalized again that evening. That event emptied from my body. It was not my mind that needed help, it was my nervous system. A day later I was on a hike with a friend when I came across a man frozen in distress on the edge of a cliff. There was a steep drop to his left. His boyfriend was getting increasingly stressed out. I overheard someone say he’d been there for two hours. 1/ | Posted on 18/Sep/2020 23:16:54