Have you heard of somagenics? Which incredible hidden depths of yourself can you unlock by using the body’s energy field in healing? How can you truly heal and let go of old patterns so that you can genuinely live your life?
In this podcast episode, Lisa Lewis speaks about transpersonal energy healing and trauma recovery with Kimberly Ward.
Meet Kimberly Ward
Kimberly has been a holistic practitioner for over 30 years. She combines her skills as a Functional Nutritional Practitioner and Somatic Trauma Therapist to help her clients achieve optimal health. She’s passionate about teaching the impact of trauma and providing accessible tools for healing.
Kimberly founded Somagetics as a place for people to come together in a safe community and explore a unique healing technique called Transpersonal Energy Healing. In addition, she created the Trauma Energetics Coach Certification Program to enable helpers, healers, and practitioners to safely and effectively help people recover from trauma.
Kimberly lives on an off-grid homestead with her husband, dogs and chickens. She learning about permaculture and regenerative farming practices.
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IN THIS PODCAST:
- What is somagenics?
- The survival energy patterns
- Developing sensitivity as a survival mechanism
- Kimberly’s advice to listeners
What is somagenics?
Kimberly noticed that with some of her clients, no matter how hard they tried with their healing and no matter how much genuine effort they put in, would not fully recover.
She came to understand that this was due to unresolved trauma, and therefore Kimberly became trained in somatic trauma therapy.
Over the last few years, Kimberly has created a membership group with combined approaches and teachings, especially from her former colleague and mentor Laura, to create a new approach to healing.
Soma, meaning body, and genics, meaning the energetic component.
There are a lot of wonderful trauma-informed therapies out there … But with somagenics, we bring in the human energy system, so we work with something more subtle than the sensations in the nervous system. We work with their energy field.
Kimberly WarD
A lot of people might feel that this is too “far out” for them, but the more that Kimberly explains how it works, the more that people feel understood by its practice as it relates to what they feel, and understand its process as to how it can support them on a deep level.
The survival energy patterns
We use a system, or map of understanding called, “the survival energy patterns”, which gives us five of the most common ways people move their energy when they’re scared or upset or need to be defended. When something happens, we have to respond to it, and we learn how to respond to our environment when we’re young and we respond based on the environment and based on the capacities that we have at that time.
Kimberly Ward
Children, depending on their age and what environment they are in, will develop certain coping mechanisms to help them deal with a traumatic environment. Some of these patterns include:
- Dissociation
- Developing codependency
- Becoming aggressive and fighting
- Becoming a people pleaser and over-achiever
What I love about this map of understanding is that it shows us how we use our energy, so what I do is I work with a client and I get a sense of the defensive patterns that aren’t working for them, I make sure that they have the capacity to calm themselves down … if we touch into something that’s upsetting for them, and then I help them recognize how they’re moving their energy, and then we work with their energy on purpose to help them move their energy in a different way.
Kimberly Ward
Developing sensitivity as a survival mechanism
Many people are sensitive because that is simply how they are – they are born with an innate and intuitive sense that connects them to the world on a deeper level.
However, some people develop their sensitivity beyond just another layer into life because they once had to struggle through a traumatic event or period.
They had to learn to use their sensitivity as a survival mechanism instead of just the gift it is, to protect or defend themselves.
Helpers and healers often have a trauma history and I call it, “the gift in the wound”, right? We were wounded enough from our environment that we had to come up with a way to be safer, so being more psychic and sensitive and more empathic really helped us survive, but the downside of that is that we then can take in other people’s stuff [because] our boundaries aren’t very good [and need to be strengthened].
Kimberly Ward
Kimberly’s advice to listeners
Kimberly wants you to know that you have so much more depth than you realize, and you can get there and get to know it all with some simple tools.
You are wired to feel your true nature, and Kimberly wants you never to give up hope!
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So you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive” and perhaps you replay situations in your head. Wondering if you said something wrong? You’re like a sponge, taking in every word, reading all situations. Internalizing different energies, but you’re not sure what to do with all of this information. You’re also not the only one asking yourself, “am I ok?” Lisa Lewis is here to tell you, “It’s totally ok to feel this way.”
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Society, and possibly your own experiences, may have turned your thinking of yourself as being a highly sensitive person into something negative. Yet, in reality, it is something that you can – and should – take ownership of. It’s the sixth sense to fully embrace, which you can harness to make positive changes in your life and in the lives of others.
This may all sound somewhat abstract, but on the Am I Ok? Podcast, Lisa shares practical tips and advice you can easily apply to your own life. Lisa has worked with adults from various backgrounds and different kinds of empaths, and she’s excited to help you better connect with yourself. Are you ready to start your journey?