My experience working with Erick was helpful and healing. While talk therapy and other healing modalities I’ve tried have brought more awareness around the wounds that I carry, I have had a difficult time experiencing healing and freedom from the effects of my wounding. Dearmouring allowed me to directly connect with my exiled parts and spend time caring for them and renegotiating the memories and experiences that caused the formation of those exiles. Engaging my traumatic memories with a body-first approach felt like a shortcut to working directly with the source material, allowing me to move a lot of stuck emotions and practice responding to those memories as my grown self instead of reverting to my younger parts that were playing their part as protectors, motivated by those hurtful memories