{"id":3694,"date":"2013-04-20T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2013-04-20T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T16:14:45","slug":"somatic-experiencing-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"Somatic Experiencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in May 2005)<\/p>\n<p>The work with Brad was pendulating between the cold grey frozen place, and the colorful place filled with life.\u00a0 I described the \u201cWorld of Diversity\u201d and Brad said I had brought it out of all the life and color that\u2019s inside me.\u00a0 He asked what if I held them both together \u2014 the suffering and the life.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not sure the grey frozen place is suffering, I think it\u2019s denial of suffering, refusal to feel suffering.\u00a0 But I think bringing life to the frozen place helps support it or ease it or something.\u00a0 Makes it possible to let myself feel the pain because there\u2019s a sense of hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/World1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"World1\" src=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/World1-300x247.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I see that I blamed myself as though &#8220;denial&#8221; were conscious which I don&#8217;t think it is. \u00a0There are times when people are given a chance to see that they are in denial and they can choose to see it or not. \u00a0But the &#8220;frozen state&#8221; described here is the frozenness of trauma, there is no choice involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in May 2005) The work with Brad was pendulating between the cold grey frozen place, and the colorful place filled with life.\u00a0 I described the \u201cWorld of Diversity\u201d and Brad said I had brought it out of all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-somatic-experiencing","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}