What is somatization?

Have you ever struggled with chronic physical pain for which doctors couldn’t find a clear, medical explanation? Even when your lab results and medical tests come back perfectly normal, your suffering is entirely real. In psychology, this profound mind-body phenomenon is known as somatization.  …

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Somatic Therapy vs. Talk Therapy: How Each Approach Addresses Trauma, Chronic Stress, and Anxiety

Trauma, chronic stress, and anxiety do not exist solely as thoughts. They can also influence breathing, muscle tension, attention, sleep, digestion, heart rate, posture, and sensitivity to perceived threats. This mind-body relationship helps explain why intellectual insight does not always lead to immediate physiological change.…

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The Body Keeps the Score in Its Connective Tissue: Fascia, Emotional Memory, and the Science of Somatic Release

I’ve seen men cry in sessions who told me, straight-faced, that they hadn’t cried in twenty years, not because the conversation reached some emotional climax, not because I said anything particularly insightful… But because something in their body, something deep in the fascial web threading…

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Burnout Self-Test

Burnout Inventory Burnout Inventory A calm self-check for the kind of tired that does not fully go away after rest. Reset Question 1 of 15 0 answered Depletion Back Next This is a reflection tool, not a diagnosis. If stress feels persistent, severe, or starts…

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Stress Score Calculator

Assessment Life Stress Inventory The Life Stress Inventory, also known as the Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory or the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, was developed by psychiatrists Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe in 1967. Select the life events you have experienced in the past…

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