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What somatic coaching actually is — and what it is absolutely not.

What somatic coaching actually is — and what it is absolutely not.

Let me start with what somatic coaching is not: it is not someone telling you what's wrong with you. It is not lying on a table while someone moves energy around. It is not a replacement for therapy and it is not therapy in a different outfit.

Somatic coaching works with the body's own intelligence. Your nervous system stores everything — every pattern, every protection, every response you developed to keep yourself safe. Most of these were brilliant survival strategies. Some of them are still running when they're no longer needed.

The work is not about thinking your way to a new pattern. It's about feeling the old one, understanding where it lives in the body, and allowing it to complete. Because patterns don't release through insight. They release through the body.

This is not alternative. This is not fringe. This is neuroscience applied through the body. And it works.

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What Somatic Coaching Actually Is and Is Not — Anna Lou Wellness