If you haven’t read the bestselling book The Body Keeps The Score yet, chances are its advice has still trickled down to your TikTok or Instagram feeds.The book suggests an idea that’s resonated with over a million people – emotions affect the body, it argues, so engaging our bodies through activities like yoga and meditation can help us to access feelings we’d otherwise keep buried. This reasoning, which has been linked to somatic, or movement, therapy, has caught the attention of experts like clinical psychologist Dr Amanda Baker.She told Harvard Health: “Cognitive behavioural therapies [CBT] focus on conscious thought and work on challenging thoughts in relation to anxiety and behaviours, helping desensitise people to uncomfortable sensations.“But somatic therapy is more about relieving the tension, as opposed to d
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