In Healing Sexual Trauma with Erika Shershun: Episode 113 of the Soles to Soul Care with Eve Menezes Cunningham podcast, I’m delighted to introduce the somatic psychotherapist who specialises in helping trauma survivors reclaim the life they were meant to live.
When you think about what YOU’ve survived, how does it feel to imagine, however outlandish it may feel, that you CAN heal? When you read or hear those words about the life you were meant to live, how does it feel to reconnect with potentially forgotten dreams and goals?
le grá (with love),
Ev3
Erika’s the author of the Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal: Writing and Somatic Practices to Help You Process, Heal, and Feel Safe, the Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook: Somatic Skills to Help You Feel Safe in Your Body, Create Boundaries & Live with Resilience, and the PESI Sexual Trauma Clinical Training. The workbook is available in Spanish (Tengo Un Trauma Corporal?), Polish, Russian, and Romanian, and the journal is available in Turkish.
Her approach is trauma informed, rooted in somatic principles, drawing on neuroscience and integrative modalities such as EMDR, Brainspotting, energy psychology, mindfulness, self-compassion and parts work.
Erika values diversity, offers individual online therapy sessions in California, and provides coaching to clients outside of the state. You can contact her at HealingSexualTrauma.com, ErikaShershunTherapy.com, or follow her @erikashershun.
Sexual Trauma Clinical Training: Interventions to Cultivate Safety, Release Shame and Guilt, and Nurture Boundaries is available at PESI.com
@erikashershun
https://www.instagram.com/erikashershun/
LINKS
Erika Shershun
https://feltsenseresonance.com
Donna Eden’s five-minute energy tune-up
Bradley Nelson emotion code
https://discoverhealing.com/gb/the-emotion-code
Louise Swartswalter Mind Gems:
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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Healing, growth and advice for a younger self
(02:22) Erika’s books and journey into trauma work
(07:55) Discovering somatic healing after years of therapy
(13:02) Post-traumatic growth and self-care
(16:36) Grounding practices and toe tapping
(26:06) Self-compassion, spirituality and healing tools
(35:22) Self-agency, choice and nervous system healing
(39:02) Co-regulation, connection and cats
(42:04) Hope, healing and final reflections