Mariska Hargitay

And this was my defense mechanism and my survival skill.

So just like I don't remember the accident, which is my body's survival mechanism.

And so...

As we worked on it, she started giving me tools to sort of ask those parts that would fall asleep to step aside.

It's somatic work, and it was life-changing, and I didn't fall asleep anymore.

And I've had some pretty profound experiences with that kind of work where another time my body was

actually fell asleep.

You know when your foot falls asleep or your leg falls asleep?

My whole body fell asleep like that.

And that was insane.

After, when it stops, you can actually feel like trauma leaving the body.

I'm sure you've read the book, The Body Keeps the Score, and how trauma gets stuck in the body if we don't release it.

And so I've done so much of that work.

Our last words to each other, and he kept saying to me, was, Mariska, always.

I was so excited and afraid, not knowing what I would find.

And the first day it was thrilling and lonely at the same time.

And then the second time when I said to my siblings, please guys, come, come.

And we just had so much fun.

There's all the

you know, the press books and all those.