Because I do believe we've gotten in a state where healing now becomes... something else that we have to perform great at all the time right so you make an important distinction between regulating managing controlling and then resolving emotions talk to us about that and what you learned in your studies and working with so many people

So you said it perfectly here.

We became champions at regulating our emotions, right? From the get-go, I have a little girl who is in kindergarten now.

And from preschool on, she's been taught to regulate emotion, right? When you feel something, you breathe.

So we became champions at regulating emotions.

And there are plenty of workshops, plenty of books, plenty of that content.

teach us to regulate that means that there's a trigger we feel a certain way we shut it down so we can survive and and then we go on and then we are face again but with a similar stimulus the body is reacting again we regulate and then we go on over and over again And that was a big thing for me.

What's one way you would start working with them?

Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

I think you did a very good job already.

Let's see what I can add.

Yeah, I came from a very small village in south of France.

Modest family, but we live in the country.

So we, you know, we didn't miss anything.

I didn't do so good in school.

So can you explain what that is in a simple way and how it differs from traditional emotional health?

Yeah

... was a bit of a disaster.

And I tried different things, uh, alcohol, of course.

Uh, of course, I shouldn't, shouldn't say of course, but that's in, in the business that I was, it was available and, uh, and, uh, and seen as okay.

Uh, psychotherapy, et cetera, and, um, it didn't, it didn't...

It wasn't clicking for me because I couldn't keep on managing something that kept on hurting me constantly.

So this is when I, I, uh, decided to quit in 2008 and, uh, went to France, went back to France, actually, and, uh, learning, uh, started learning, uh, somatic therapy.

H- how does everything unfold? What happens? What do you start doing?

Let's start there.

I'd love to.

I think the I'm not good enough concept is a complete humanity.

As you said, not good enough for what? For whom? I mean, any other species think that they're not good enough? You know, from the moment life runs through us, we obviously are good enough.

We're good enough to live.

And that's all that matters.

This I'm not good enough thing stems from different things.

What would a traditional session with you look like? What sort of format would it take?