TPP 504: Celia Bray on Staying Anchored in an Intense World
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is somatic psychology and why does Celia Bray practice it?
I'm Debbie Reber, and this is Full Tilt Parenting. Today, we're exploring what it means to reconnect with our bodies and how that can transform not just our emotional health, but our parenting and our relationships as well. My guest is Celia Bray, a psychologist, somatic therapist, and the author of Inscribed, Your Body's Hidden Script. Celia brands traditional psychology with embodied healing practices. And through her work with Somatic Psychology International, she helps people access the wisdom held in their bodies to support healing and growth. I've had so many conversations with parents over the years about being really cut off from their bodies. And I know that this work can be really transformational for parents.
So I wanted to bring Celia onto the show to talk about simple accessible practices that parents can begin using right away and why developing this awareness can really shift how we show up for our kids and for ourselves. So in this conversation, you're about to hear Celia will share her own journey from disconnection to what she calls somatic mastery and why learning to tune into our body's signals can be such a powerful guide for decision making and regulation. So here's Celia Bray on unlocking the wisdom written in our bodies so we can heal, grow, and live authentically. Hey, Celia, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Debbie. It's amazing to be here. I'm looking forward to exploring your work. Another pretty new topic for the show, which excites me.
Actually, as this comes out, I'm over 500 episodes. So it's not every day that I get to bring on a whole fresh topic. But I would really love to learn more about you and how you can support our listeners and parents in better showing up for themselves and for the kids that they have. So I'd like to start this conversation is, would you mind telling us a little bit about your big work in the world and why you do the work that you do, how you got into this space?
Yeah,
sure.
So how I started to really value the body as a way of healing emotional wounds as well as living an amazing life is both a personal and professional story. So my own childhood, I shut down any connection I had with my body because feeling was way too intense. So I was so logical. Even at university in my share house, one of my housemates named me Spock. And he's like, I'm in control of my emotions. Like it was even visible to other people. And if someone would kind of say something to me that was really like not in the logical frame, I'd honestly be thrown. The whole emotional world was just not a safe space for me. And so realizing that was that I needed to learn to how to make friends with my body and learn to feel and
was a really personal journey. And from a professional perspective, I wanted to be a psychologist for, since I was 16, I was fascinated with how do we work and trying to figure out why people fight and conflict. I was very confused about why is all this conflict necessary? I mean, in today's world, still asking that question. And so that led me down that exploratory path. But it was when I was actually in Kenya, I was living in Kenya for five years, and I really realised that Kenyans are very embodied. And there was a terrorist attack in Kenya, killing 67 people and having hundreds injured. And I wanted to offer a trauma healing process. for victims of this terrorist attack in Nairobi. And I instinctively felt talking therapy is not gonna cut it.
It's just not. So I reached out to my Five Rhythms movement teacher in Australia at the time and said, look, I really wanna offer an embodied trauma healing process. And I'm not qualified in that area, but I know that that's going to be what's needed. And so it ended up getting someone in from South Africa who did heartbeat embodiment processes. I'm a gestalt therapist, so I worked with the gestalt training I had with another colleague. And we ran this movement, music, art, embodied three-day workshop. And it was fascinating. Like people were literally like starting by lying on the floor, rolling on the floor to kind of get grounded, to feel the safety of the ground underneath.
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