Episode 135: The Skills of Togetherness with Melissa Benintendi Part 4
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Melissa Benintendi.
Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant and trainer and specifically focuses on practicing therapy with the body in mind. She is a coauthor and trainer of Somatic Integration and Processing, which is a case conceptualization model that teaches therapists to understand their work through the lenses of somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and adaptive information processing models. She is also a cohost and creator of ‘Notice That – An EMDR Podcast’ which reaches an international audience of over 40,000 listeners monthly. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology through the California Institute of Integral Studies. Melissa has also been trained in CranioSacral Therapy and Reiki Energy Healing and utilizes both in her private practice.
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In this episode we talk about:
Congruence as the expressed self and the felt self having coherence
Exploring Enneagram and congruence
What does it mean to have a Self?
Being a living ecosystem
Developing the Skills of Togetherness
Growing capacity for multiple realities & experiences
Speaking close to the bone
What are haphazard and sloppy ways of being together?
Needing to have a Self & differentiation before unity is possible
What is Sacred Togetherness? And is it all boring, serious and reverent?
How threat responses hinder us from togetherness and congruence
Cellular damage from living in chronic threat: inflammation and rigidity and being overly permeable
Why trauma healing cannot be individual
Creating environments of thriving
Staying with the felt sense
SSHHH: Soft, Slow, Humble, Here, Honest
