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Love, Sex & Self-Respect: Your Body Holds the Keys

Do you wonder about other ways to help your clients, especially to feel more loved, have more pleasurable sexuality and/or respect themselves more fully? Do you wish to have more tools and techniques to address their underlying unhappiness? Although people express it differently, often beneath the suffering which brings clients to the attention of social workers, lies a desire to experience more of the joy of love, the pleasure possible with sexuality, and the good feeling of self-respect.
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Addressing Sexuality in Bioenergetic Therapy: A Contemporary Approach

Embodied sexuality can provide some of the best of what life has to offer including feelings of pleasure, connection and satisfaction. For many people, however, sexuality has led to some of life's worst experiences - violations, broken connections, and traumas that lead to feelings of shame and guilt. Sexual issues may underlie many mental health issues including depression, anxiety and PTSD.
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Working with Boundaries in Bioenergetic Therapy

Many of the challenges which impact people coming to our attention as social workers relate to the issue of boundaries - how a person experiences their personal boundaries, how they express their boundaries to those around them, and how they experience the boundaries of others. We use the term boundaries to describe a variety of things - such as the physical boundaries in a sport, to the boundaries as a dividing line between areas, to the boundaries of a person\'s knowledge or experience.
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Grounding - a foundation of Bioenergetic Therapy

Grounding is an effective exercise for people with common issues such as anxiety, depression and recovering from trauma. It can help people get stronger in setting boundaries for themselves and in reaching out for support. Many people who come to therapy complain of worrying, their mind racing, perseverating, negative self-talk, low self-esteem, etc.
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