Working Repressed Emotions

Could emotional repression be behind your depression, anxiety, addiction or chronic pain?

From grief, anger, and fear to joy and shame, almost all of us have some degree of emotional repression. This typically stems from early childhood experiences in which we learned one or more emotions were unsafe or unacceptable. Perhaps dad’s anger was frightening or mum couldn’t handle it when you were sad. Perhaps you learned you got love when you showed up as the good girl/boy and didn’t express your own anger. But that which lies buried ultimately festers and seeks release. The problem is that repressed emotion is unconscious. We just aren’t aware we are repressing it. 

Fortunately somatic repression therapy offers powerful tools to identify the extent to which emotional repression is behind your suffering. More than this, it offers powerful pathways to access, work with and ultimately liberate what lies buried, often yielding profound shifts in mental and physical wellbeing.  

Liberating repressed anger can - for instance - alleviate decades-old chronic pain. And bouts of depression - seemingly impervious to standard talk therapy - can be healed through the liberation of buried grief or sadness. 

If you’d like to explore your own emotional repression, get in touch. I offer tools to map what repression may be in place in your life, with tailored pathways to heal and find wholeness