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You Don’t Need to Relax to Heal: Why Trauma-Informed Sound Is Different
If sound healing has ever made you feel restless, emotional, numb, irritated, or even resistant, nothing has gone wrong. Your body isn’t failing. Your nervous system isn’t broken.
It may be doing exactly what it needs to do.
Trauma-informed sound work begins with a different assumption than most wellness culture: healing does not require relaxation. Healing requires safety, consent, and honest presence—sometimes quiet, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes wordless.
Julie Jewels Smoot
Jan 73 min read
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