How has Brian D Smith's collaboration with Cedric Bertelli influenced his approach to emotional health?

Cedric’s work has reinforced and deepened an approach that was already grief-centered and spiritually grounded by adding a very body-based, neuroscience-informed layer.

From Cedric, the key shifts have been:

• Focusing less on “managing” emotions and more on resolving the emotional charge in the nervous system
• Paying closer attention to bodily sensations (interoception) as the gateway to healing
• Helping grievers see that grief must be felt, but looping guilt, shame, and fear can often be dissolved somatically

So emotional health work is now even more about gently sitting with sensations, letting the body complete what it could not finish at the time of the trauma, and integrating that with the GEMS framework and spiritual perspective already used.

Would you like a simple, step‑by‑step example of how to use this body-based approach when a wave of grief hits?