Mariska Hargitay

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409 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

Mariska Hargitay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And I would start to close my eyes and almost like a narcoleptic, fall asleep.

And she said, well, that's your sleepy part coming in.

And I sort of went, hmm?

No, listen, I work 16 hours a day.

I don't sleep well, and I am really tired.

But she said, I find it interesting that it only happens when we get close to this.

And it's just like a wound, right?

If somebody goes near you, you pull it back.

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.

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