Jenny Frank-Doggett - Feldenkrais® and Mental Health

Expand Your Ability: Embodiment, Somatics, and Feldenkrais

When Jenny Frank-Doggett incorporates Feldenkrais® into her therapy sessions, she finds it helps her clients to feel better. She means 'feel better' in two meanings. They feel better in their body and mind and they can feel more. They can become more attuned with their experience.

Language is tough. I agree that it's important that we connect Mind and Body. Our culture in the West has had such an emphasis on the intellect and a general disregard for the body (thankfully that's changing), so it makes sense to encourage people to reconnect Mind and Body. But, as my guest points out, Mind and Body were never truly separated - they are one.

We can use somatic (body-based) tools to help a person with their mental health because the mind is body and the body is mind.

What you will hear in this episode:

• Jenny's background into Jungian therapy and hypnotherapy.
• "We can have physical symptoms and not realize it's related to a traumatic event".
• Our brain and nervous system are designed to keep us alive.
• Examples of sympathetic and parasympathetic activation.
• "Through touch we can co-regulate", Co-regulation is where two people's nervous systems become alike.
• Jenny's preference to work with client's feet to help them 'ground'.
• 'Kindling in the brain', a metaphor for how negative thought patterns strengthen through repetition .
• What life looks like if you're not stuck in parasympathetic or sympathetic activation.

About the Guest
Jenny Frank-Doggett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, and a Guild Certified Practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method®. She is based in Redmond, Washington.

She has been a student and teacher of psychology, yoga, and other esoteric and transpersonal practices for over 25 years. Jenny’s current work, consists of individual and relationship therapy as well as facilitating classes, groups, and intensive transformational retreats.

Somatic body work and education using the Feldenkrais Method ® is integrated into Jenny’s counseling practice as physical wellbeing and attention practices directly impact mental and emotional health.

Jenny facilitates transformational therapeutic groups with Tom - her life partner of 26 years and they have two adult daughters and many dogs.

Email her: [e-mail]
Jenny's website: https://www.tigermountaincounseling.com

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