by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Mar 12, 2025 | Body/Mind Tools, Coping Skills, Dance/Movement Therapy, mind/body, Somatic Therapy
Five reasons why therapy may not be helping you reach your goals and what to do instead. “I’ve been in therapy for over ten years and I’ve hit a wall”. After years of building cognitive skills and increasing self knowledge in talk therapy, some people reach a point...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Feb 9, 2025 | Anxiety, Body/Mind Tools, Coping Skills, Dance/Movement Therapy, mind/body, mindfulness, Somatic Therapy, Stress, trauma
If you are in therapy for anxiety or for trauma treatment your therapist may have led you through a Body Scan Meditation. Here I answer 6 questions about the Body Scan. 1. What is a Body Scan Meditation? A Body Scan Meditation or Body Scan Mindfulness exercise is used...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Jan 16, 2025 | Body/Mind Tools, Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Therapy
What Is Body-Oriented Therapy and What Is Somatic Psychotherapy? Have you ever wondered how body-oriented therapy is different from other therapy modalities? Today I’d like to provide some clarity around what I do in my practice, a form of somatic psychotherapy, and...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Jun 6, 2022 | Highly Sensitive Person, mind/body, Somatic Therapy
Have you ever been told that you are too sensitive or that you need to toughen up? Do you find the conversation to be a bit too loud and the light too bright? Or maybe you are moved to tears by works of art? Startle easily? If so, you may be a highly sensitive...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Apr 29, 2022 | Body/Mind Tools, Coping Skills, Covid-19, mind/body, Stress
A Changing Scene As mask mandates lift and positive Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to go down we hear whispers of the word “endemic”. “I just want things to go back to normal” is a phrase we’ve been using since those first days of lock down, and here in the...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Mar 11, 2022 | Body/Mind Tools, Dance/Movement Therapy, Somatic Therapy
Do you want to feel more grounded and alert? This movement sequence, called the Dimensional Scale is often used in dance/movement therapy. It will help you ground your body, focus your mind, and encourage healthy brain/body connectivity. From the moment I learned the...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Feb 8, 2022 | Somatic Therapy
What does therapy actually look like these days? It varies a lot! Therapy comes in many different modalities with therapists of many backgrounds usually using multiple methods they’ve trained in. The beauty of having so many different modalities is that you can pick...
by Kimberly Schmidt Bevans | Nov 30, 2021 | Anxiety, mind/body, Somatic Therapy, Stress, trauma
What is Polyvagal Theory and the Vagus Nerve? If you’ve delved into the world of body-oriented therapy, you may have heard of Polyvagal Theory (the father and founder of this theory is Stephen Porges) and the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve, also called “the wandering...
