I attended one of Dr Luciana’s Somatic healing sessions and what impacted me the most was learning that anxiety is not just in the mind it lives in the body, this resonated with it because my sister actually suffers from severe anxiety and panic attacks, and at first i had no idea how to help her in those moments. One of the most helpful techniques was the one in which you slowly breath from your stomach, This technique was actually the one i used to calm down my sister when she had panic attacks and i was surprised to hear it mentioned in this session, One technique was mentioned that i actually found very interesting and that was to have her name things around the room to distract her to help her shift her focus and reduce the intensity of the panic, i never though about this and it was definitely a good thing to learn about. what stood out most to me was the idea that trauma is not what happened to you, but instead what happened inside you because of it. this helped me actually understand my sisters reactions with more compassion. This session taught me to not try to fix the issue but instead comfort, so i plan to keep using these techniques to help her feel safe.