The Somatic Self-Care System is an ongoing, self-care and recovery system designed to help individuals continue recognizing and organizing the body patterns and signals identified during their Functional Wellness Assessment . Rather than focusing on isolated symptoms, this support system helps organize how accumulated stress and ongoing demands may be influencing physical responses, symptom timing, tension and recovery patterns, adjustment patterns and overall function. Support focuses on understanding how patterns may develop, repeat, adapt and shift over time in response to recovery habits, movement, tension levels, breathing mechanics and environmental demands. This system exists alongside traditional healthcare — not to replace it but to support what happens between and beyond it, where many day-to-day patterns actually occur. What “Somatic” Means ...
Ongoing support through the Somatic Self-Care System
Ongoing support through the Somatic Self-Care System
The process begins with a Functional Wellness Assessment and a 30-day observation period designed to help clients better recognize how their body responds under daily demand.
Following the observation phase, clients may choose to continue within the Somatic Self-Care System through ongoing recovery support, which includes an Individual Support Plan (ISP).
What Is an Individual Support Plan?
An Individual Support Plan (ISP) is a focused support plan developed around the patterns, observations and recovery needs identified during the Functional Wellness Assessment and ongoing support process.
Within the Somatic Self-Care System, the ISP becomes the primary area of focus used to help organize support, recovery strategies and self-care understanding over time.
Rather than attempting to address everything at once, the ISP helps narrow attention toward the patterns currently needing the most support, observation or practical adjustment.
In many ways, the ISP functions similarly to a guide within the recovery process — helping clients better understand how daily life, stress demands, recovery habits and physical responses may be influencing overall functioning.
As patterns shift and recovery progresses, ISP focus areas may also change over time.
Examples of ISP focus areas may include:
- brow compression and tension buildup
- guarded movement and protective response patterns
- digestive stress and pressure patterns
- posture and movement adaptations
- swelling and fluid retention patterns
- clenching and grinding patterns
- restlessness and nighttime recovery patterns
As patterns stabilize and awareness improves, additional ISPs may be introduced over time when appropriate.
Ongoing Recovery Support
The Somatic Self-Care System currently includes:
- develop and manage supportive ISP strategies
- two 40-minute ISP support sessions per month
- continued pattern observation and recovery organization support
- structured self-observation tracking between sessions
- guidance during recovery progression and refinement of recovery strategies
Important Clarification
This support system does not diagnose or treat medical conditions.
It is designed to support awareness, observation, recovery organization, and self-care understanding alongside traditional healthcare support when needed.
The Goal
The goal is not to force the body to do more.
The goal is to better understand what the body may already be showing through patterns over time.