Izabella Siodmak Somatic Psychotherapy in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Psychotherapist

Izabella Siodmak Somatic Psychotherapy

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 5494 4558

Address: 23 Parker Street 4051 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.izabellasiodmak.com/

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24.01.2022 I'm opening up extra session times if you (or someone you know) needs a safe space to integrate your feelings, release built-up energy in your body and be held in a compassionate, deeply relational way.

18.01.2022 I have 2 spaces left for sessions in Brisbane on Tuesday. If you're needing support please follow the calendar link in the comments to book in >>

17.01.2022 3 REASONS WHY NOT TO SAY ‘CALM DOWN’ to a distressed person & what to do and say instead At the height of Madeline’s upset, Jamie gestured with the palms of his hands in a downwards motion as he repeated these words, Calm down. Although his demeanour appeared to be steady, his tone was underlined with panic. Madeline’s anxiety escalated in response. Jamie repeated himself, a little more forcefully this time. Madeline, at this point, withdrew completely and the connection de...Continue reading

15.01.2022 The most prized relationship skill ...

13.01.2022 Anger, grief, longing, fear, a need to matter to another and attachment are all natural expressions of being human. It's an unfortunate fact of life that people whom have not accepted and integrated these emotions and natural human needs will at times project their lack of integration of this upon others in the form of denying or blocking these emotions when others show or express them. Another way this emotional (self)rejection shows up is by placing emotions in some kind o...f mental or spiritual hierarchy where some are considered better / worse/ "higher vibration" or lower vibration or positive and negative. This often occurs when one is feeling helpless in the face of certain emotions. It’s an attempt through false empowerment to rise above the demonised emotions that one is not able to face and integrate. This faux transcendence does not make the feelings go away. The undigested feelings are stored in your body and get driven deeper into the unconscious to eventually get expressed (often destructively) as shadow. Your body and nervous system holds no judgment regarding the primal emotions you experience. This type of judgement regarding emotions gets imprinted when there’s a lack of felt acceptance in your environment, your carers or peers, of the emotions that are intrinsic to the very fabric of your being. Let’s make this world one where we welcome grounded education regarding the emotions felt in our bodies, create safe spaces for people to express their feelings and provide more experiences of validating each other’s emotional realities. When we can employ compassionate enquiry within a safe, contained space we can begin to truly heal the traumas stored within. It all wants your healing, your seeing, your acceptance, your holding not your separation, nor polarisation, through judgement.

09.01.2022 If there's one biggest thing I have embraced from training in Somatic (Body) Psychotherapy it's to really travel into the core of the emotions in a WHOLE-BODIED way. I am no longer afraid to be vulnerable with others ... to acknowledge sadness, to embrace anger and its sacred purpose, to befriend the effects of fear upon my nervous system, unravel the origins and regulate myself into physiological safety and relational intimacy. I am not afraid to risk bringing my feelings to... a relationship. To let the other know how much they and our connection matters to me and therefore naturally impacts me. I am no longer afraid to communicate to the other how their behaviour hurts me when it does. I am no longer afraid to own my relational needs, regardless of if another is able to meet them or not. I am able to recognise when I am not met in emotional honesty, as a function of where the other person is at in themselves, not a reflection of anything about me. It feels natural to take distancing steps if shaming, silencing, passivity, withdrawing, with-holding, controlling ... manipulative defensiveness is what's directed at me whilst staying open to the possibility of mutuality in the deeper emotional reality. In facing any of my feelings as a felt experience, an organic open curiosity, I am free. I am free of the charge that unresolved emotions carry. I am free of squandering my energy on suppression in order to hold these feelings back (which only forces them into shadow). I am free to process old, stored content as it comes to the surface and witness the evolution of my increased capacity and improved response ... a healthy sign of integration. I am free to relate with availability. I am free to love more, be more and create more. I am free, when I engage with my core emotionality.

04.01.2022 Are you frustrated in your intimate relationship? Does everything you try seem to push you further apart? In this half day workshop immersion you’ll come together with other couples to explore the underlying blocks, loosen the built up defences & open to new & effective ways of relating. ... This process will draw on somatic psychotherapy to support releasing the emotional tension stored in your body which subconsciously impacts your relationship. You can expect to feel calmer, clearer & more centered whilst taking home tools & skills to keep connecting with your partner more authentically & intimately.