The experience of trauma body is feeling uncomfortable in our skin, tense, overwhelming sensations or an inability to feel our body at all. We can feel chronically unsafe, anxious, chronically angry or walk around not feeling our sensations at all. We can feel uneasy around others and/or alone.

Bringing our body to a present sense of safety is key. This entails both processing experiences where we felt unsafe by making contact with the body sensations at the time while simultaneously bringing present awareness to the here and now through one's senses which connect to safety,

Feeling safe and engaged AND calm and alert, are not mutually exclusive. When we have achieved coherence in our bodies we can feel regulated by ourself and/or with another. We can move between a social situation, to a learning environment, to being alone, to meditation with ease.