Body Psychology
Touching the emotions in therapy, bodywork & education
Camilla Griggers, PhD
Somatic therapist, holistic health consultant, wellness educator & author in West Los Angeles.
LA Somatics is the practice of Camilla Griggers, PhD, who specializes in body psychology in therapy, bodywork and education. The somatic psychology approach keeps the body foreground in the therapeutic or educational experience. That’s a game changer for many people, because we live in a society in which the mind has been separated from the body and we sit in chairs and talk about emotions without feeling them in an embodied way. As a result, we often talk too much, feel too little, ignore our body’s physical, emotional and social needs and so miss critical opportunities to make enormous changes in our lives (and timely strategic tweaks) to become healthier and happier. For developing children, teens and youth, those opportunities are precious and also necessary. For all of us, they happen developmentally and sometimes we may want to step back to actually get those needs met. Learn more about me.
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 what you need to know to find a holistic dentist who can help you treat and prevent recurrent tooth decay, gum disease, wisdom tooth extractions, root canals, mercury amalgam dental fillings, TMJ, chronic neck pain and misaligned teeth. Because your mouth is connected to the rest of you.
Worried about your health?
Model Kay Heffernon poses with a hotdog and soda in a cloud of DDT for Life Magazine, 1948.
Environmental social factors: The missing link
There is no boundary between mind and body, between us and our environment, including our physical and social environment and our internal milieu. We are constantly in touch. Inside and out. This idea that there’s a clear boundary between us and everything around us, which we’ve learned to tolerate even though it’s making us and the planet sick, is artificial. It’s out of touch with the laws of nature. With Mother Earth.
Of course we are our environment—the foods we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe. The soil we place our bare feet on in a grassy lawn sprayed the day before in Roundup. Every connection between ourself and our environment matters. Including our social environments, the games we play for hours on end, the food and drink products we buy and consume, the social media we thumb through, and the plastic bottles we drink out of.
For all these reasons, social environmental medicine is the health care of our future.
