In some environments, children have to block their feelings. Imagine being terrorised in your home, being with someone, a mother, father, sibling, who enjoys seeing fear in you. In these circumstances, it is an act of self-preservation to block your feelings. Our feelings give us signals about what is right and what is wrong for us. This natural ‘ check in ‘ system is missing when we have learned to block our feelings for so long. It can be challenging to know who you are when you get older because it is difficult to feel. This is one of the areas where somatic work is incredibly powerful. Somatic work is the therapeutic work with the body. It helps to connect a person’s mind and body and to effectively ‘defrost’ these frozen emotions so they can slowly, and loveling be re-integrated into the whole self. Somatic therapy works from the inside out to heal trauma, from the ‘bottom-up’, which allows feelings to emerge that may not have a story attached to them.