Trying to understand people only from a cognitive place, without somatic empathy, can end up being like analyzing under a microscope.

Maybe you’ll see something in a lot greater detail, but it’s not going to heal and nurture whatever you’re looking at.

Health care practitioners can do harm if they don’t practice somatic empathy.

In my own personal journey of healing complex trauma many years ago, I would encounter well meaning, but dysregulating practitioners who would ask me questions from their mind, but not their body.

I wouldn’t sense them opening into feeling my inner experience with me.