Kathryn Alexandra Perlman

We hear the word somatic  a lot these days. It shows up everywhere: on social media, in wellness spaces, in therapy rooms. But what does it actually mean? At its most basic level, somatic simply means relating to the body . Depending on who’s using the term, it may carry different nuances, but it always points back to the same core idea: the lived experience of being alive inside a human body. Your consciousness, nervous system, and life force housed within what is, functionally speaking, a...