Somatic Healing + Becoming Embodied w– Andrea Glik

Somatic trauma therapist Andrea Glik explains why it isn’t helpful to pathologize everything about us, but it’s more importance to increase our capacity for pleasure and presence. In this episode, Andrea walks us through attachment styles, the relationship between pain and pleasure and how lessons from kink can help us relate to more healthy sex.


we discuss

  • How to identify the resources and tools you already have

  • Using the breath as a neutral tool for somatic experience

  • Where to start when “be here now” feels unsafe

  • How it is unhelpful to over pathologize and over diagnose experiences

  • The relationship between pain and pleasure

  • How our capacity for pleasure can signify healing

  • Working through shame around pleasure, which can also be about worthiness

  • Looking at attachment styles and how they affect relationships

  • How to cultivate your capacity and consciousness around pleasure in your life

  • What kink has to teach us about communication, consent, play and body awareness

  • How the earth holds so much pleasure for us


About Andrea

I started doing this healing work 12 years ago and began as a crisis counselor at a peer-led, grassroots organization. Andrea went on to serve at many organizations and non-profits that provide therapeutic services for women & LGBTQ folks. I have been able to serve my LGBTQ+, feminist, sex worker, and survivor community as a trauma therapist, sex educator, facilitator, intake coordinator, and community organizer, and more recently, career coach. 

I received my LMSW in 2017 and went on to be trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy by the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Then, getting my LCSW in 2020. In 2021, I began my training to become EMDR certified. 

I specialize in treating trauma and PTSD/c-PTSD for women and queer & trans folks, using parts work, Polyvagal theory, and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. 

I am proud to be an out queer and survivor therapist. I currently live and practice on occupied Osage, Sioux, Kaskaskia and Kickapoo land, at the confluence of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers. I see clients online and in so called St. Louis, MO.

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Langston Kahn
Episode w— Lindsay Mack

More about our guest —

Andrea's website
Andrea's IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, book by Peter Levine

Pleasure Activism, book by Adrienne Maree Brown

Wired for Love, book by Stan Tatkin

Come as You Are, book by Emily Nagoski

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, book by Deb Dana

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