Jeanne PrinzivalliYou might hear someone say, “I know I’m safe now, but my body still feels anxious.” That experience is very common after trauma. Even when the mind understands that danger has passed, the nervous system can continue reacting as if the threat is still there.
Jeanne PrinzivalliPendulation is a therapeutic practice based on a simple idea that involves gently moving between moments of discomfort and moments of safety.
Jeanne PrinzivalliIn contemporary mental health practice, self-care is often reduced to routines, journaling, mindfulness apps, or occasional time off. These can be useful. But they frequently bypass a deeper dimension of well-being: the lived, sensory experience of the body.
Jeanne PrinzivalliGestalt therapy was developed in the 1940s and 1950s by Fritz Perls, alongside Laura Perls. It emerged as a reaction against the more interpretive and pathology-focused approaches of classical psychoanalysis.