So I guess the question for you is what do you see in the relationship that we're talking about, right? Eating disorders and sexual trauma.

Yeah.

So if I bring it back, and then I'll zoom it back into the eating disorders and sexual trauma, when I hear the, the realm of kind of disordered eating and sexuality, they are both inherently body-based experiences that rest on our capacity to honor our wants, which requires our interceptive awareness.

And if we, as we just spoke about, live in a society that is doing everything possible to remove us from our interceptive awareness, which is our capacity to feel inside our very own body, to be connected to our hunger, desire, wants, yes, no, all of these things, they have a somatic and sensory component to them.

If that has been systematically disconnected from us, we won't have that orientation to know I want this type of food, or I want this type of touch.

And so for me, I'm like, if you struggle with one of those, you absolutely struggle with the other, 'cause both are deeply connected to pleasure.

And there are, I mean, there are so many stories that are out there specifically, I would say, for cisgendered women, but actually just all human beings.

Do you know what I mean?

Could you explain what led you to go into this? And also, in really simple terms, what is a somatic psychotherapist?

So I will define somatic psychotherapist just so that people understand what I do and how it's maybe different.

So a somatic psychotherapist is trained clinically in the same way a regular psychotherapist would be trained.

So we are trained to listen to stories, to know how to process trauma, to weave cognitive narratives together, to reframe.

We have that skill set.

But we also have additional skill set of both listening to the story that someone is saying through their words, but also the story of the body.

So that means I'm going to notice when your eye contact breaks.

But yeah, what's your, who do you think it's better for?

Could you explain what led you to go into this? And also, in really simple terms, what is a somatic psychotherapist?

So I will define somatic psychotherapist just so that people understand what I do and how it's maybe different.

So a somatic psychotherapist is trained clinically in the same way a regular psychotherapist would be trained.

So we are trained to listen to stories, to know how to process trauma, to weave cognitive narratives together, to reframe.

We have that skill set.

But we also have additional skill set of both listening to the story that someone is saying through their words, but also the story of the body.

So that means I'm going to notice when your eye contact breaks.

Who do you think it's better for?