Somatic Therapy
Touching embodied emotions in therapy, bodywork & education
Camilla Griggers, PhD
Somatic therapist & educator, holistic health consultant in west Los Angeles
LA Somatics is the private home practice of Camilla Griggers, PhD who specializes in applying somatic psychology principles in therapy, bodywork and education. Keeping the body foreground in the therapeutic & educational experience is a game changer, because Americans live in a society that separates our mind and body in healthcare, psychotherapy and education. As a result of ignoring the mindbody connection, Americans tend to talk too much, feel too little, overthink choices without making one, fail to respond to the crises we created, and then turn a deaf ear to our own physical and emotional needs right when we urgently need to change how we’re thinking, how we’re feeling and what we’re doing about it. Somatic therapies and educational methods can help because they leverage the mindbody connection to instigate healthy changes. While liberating you from sitting in a chair talking about your own dysfunctions for years.
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What clients say about Fast Therapy
Alice D.
Actress
“I was so happy with the results of my first 10-day fast—which included kicking a two-year sleeping pill addiction—when the opportunity to do it again arose, I knew it was time for a follow up. The second round of Fast Therapy was even better, because I saw the cleansing effects all the way past day 10 to day 14. My benefits included mental clarity, better sleep and digestion, weight loss, emotional balance and peace, not to mention more energy and clearer skin. Would I do it a third time? Absolutely!”
Alexcia P.
Writer
“Fast Therapy completely shifted my relationship to food, my body and my awareness of self. I realized after 10 days of fasting that I’d been constantly consuming and not really pausing to give myself permission and time to let go. I realized I was addicted to food, to consumption itself. I now honor the process of consuming only what I really need in my Core Self and then releasing waste and negative feelings. Fast Therapy is now part of my life, and I know if I need to emotionally or physically cleanse, it’s easy.”
Mark K.
Cinematographer
“Doing Fast Therapy taught me how to detox my colon, liver and gallbladder. And guess what? My back and shoulder pain disappeared. But the next thing I learned was the real game-changer. I was guided to do emotional healing work at the same time. I realized I needed to change how I was in relationship. Like why I wasn’t. That really opened my heart and mind.”
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MOUTHBODY HEALTHCARE
An easy-to-use guide to holistic dentistry for you and your family
This is a consumer-facing book on dentistry to smile about! Just as the mindbody connection changed conventional medicine and psychology, the mouthbody connection has changed conventional dentistry and its materials, tools and treatments. As a consumer, you have a choice about which kind of dentistry you want—the old conventional dentistry that pretends your mouth and your body are separate when they’re not, or the new holistic dentistry that treats your mouth and body as connected because they are. This book makes sure you are informed about that choice before you sit in a dentist’s chair, or put your child in one.
Mouthbody Healthcare explains the 6 top dental problems that can jeopardize oral-systemic health and contribute to chronic conditions such as scoliosis, TMJ, diabetes, chronic infection, autoimmune disease, heart attack, stroke, cancer and dementia. Learn safer more effective treatments for tooth decay, gum disease, wisdom tooth extractions, root canals, mercury amalgam dental fillings and TMJ from misaligned teeth.
Thinking there is a clear boundary between us and our environment is a mistake. We are constantly in touch with and touched by our physical surroundings. Thinking we exist inside and our environment exists outside is out of touch with the laws of nature.
Obviously we are our environment—the foods we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe. Even the soil we place our bare feet on in a grassy lawn sprayed the day before in Roundup herbicide. In reality, there is no separation. That’s why the relationship we nurture between ourselves and our environment matters to our mindbody health. In this regard, the games we play with our mental and physical wellbeing, the risks we take with the food and drink we buy and consume, the social media we addictively and mindlessly thumb through, and the plastic bottles we drink out of all become us. For all these reasons, I believe environmental medicine is the medicine of our sustainable future. Keep your eye out for new trends in my blog.
Environment: The missing link
