The Heaviness Has Outlasted Whatever Started It
Nothing in your week is asking for it, and it hasn't let up.
Nervous system regulation and somatic therapy for late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD adults. In person in Paonia and throughout Colorado.
Your Limbs Go Heavy and the Antsiness Follows
The heaviness settles into your arms and legs.
Then the antsiness underneath it, which won’t let you sit down and won’t let you rest either.
Nothing happened this morning. Nothing had to.
Your body has been running this since long before this morning.
Your Body Hasn’t Come Down Since
The thing that set this off is over and done with.
Your heart rate, your jaw, your shoulders: none of them got the news.
So they’ve kept working. Through quiet weeks, through good news, through stretches when nothing at all was wrong.
They’ve been at it ever since.
The first ten seconds are workable, once you know what to do.
Get a Technique You Can Run This WeekYour Body Sends the First Signal Early
There’s a signal before the heaviness, and another before the antsiness. You have both already.
Somatic techniques take the sensation as it arrives: name it, slow it, and let it come down a notch before it climbs.
Your nervous system is something to understand rather than something to fix.
Early is where you still have options.
What Your Days Look Like as It Comes Down
It comes down in increments small enough to miss while they're happening.
- Spot the heaviness while it's still small enough to work with.
- Head off the climb without losing the rest of the afternoon.
- Come down from a hard exchange while the day is still usable.
- Lie down at night without your legs arguing about it.
- Say hard things out loud while your chest stays where it is.
And none of it asks you to relive anything in detail.
Your Body Comes Down in Three Phases
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Learn Your Signals
We work out the specific ways your body announces it's climbing. The heaviness, the antsiness, whatever yours turns out to be. Then techniques you can run in the moment.
You intervene while it's small. -
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Take the Charge Off
Somatic work goes after the charge itself: where it sits, what it does when you get near it, and what lets it come down. Narrating the event is not required.
What was held there lets go. -
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Aim at What Matters
With less of your day going to the body, we use ACT to aim your ordinary weeks at what you actually care about.
What you value gets the day.
Your Body Settles Without Being Told To
Call Now for Your Free ConsultationWhy Trust Me as Your Partner in Healing
Techniques That Work When I'm Not There
Nothing I teach you counts for much until you've used it somewhere I wasn't. That's the standard I hold it to.Straight Answers About My Training
There's no certification behind the somatic side of my work. I'm trained in the techniques and comfortable using them, and that qualifier comes from me rather than from something you find later.I'll Tell You When This Isn't the Right Tool
Somatic work doesn't answer everything, and when what's in front of us calls for a different approach, saying so is my job rather than yours.
Warren H. Phillips, PhD
Thirty years into practice, one moment still keeps me in this work: the Unmasking Breakthrough, when a client finally understands the why underneath a lifetime of struggle.
I'm a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota, and I've trained doctoral students in psychotherapy and psychological testing for more than twenty-five years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Breath control is one tool inside this, not the frame around it. The frame is reading your own signals as they climb and having a specific move ready for each.
Then you’re in the majority here. The adults who come to me can account for their own thinking in fine detail and have no read on what their shoulders are doing, and that’s where we start.
Some of it is talking. The rest is trying something small while I’m right there watching with you, then deciding together what’s worth keeping.
It can stay out of the room entirely. What your body is doing this week is material enough, and memory work is a separate track here, EMDR among the options, open if you ask for it.
The same thing we rehearsed in session, in the same order. The techniques are short and physically quiet by design, and we run them until they arrive on their own when the day turns.
Take the First Step Today
After thirty years of this work, the moment I watch for is ordinary: your shoulders drop in the middle of a sentence, and neither of us planned it.
Call and ask me what this actually involves. It’s a free fifteen minutes, and the agenda is whatever you came in wanting to know.
It came down before, and it can come down again.
What Happens Next?
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