Leah Fox Therapy

Leah Fox Therapy My approach to therapy is rooted in intuition, relational understanding, and clinical insight.

Using EMDR, IFS, and the Enneagram, I guide people in uncovering patterns that once offered protection, but have now become roadblocks to personal development. I work with people who are seeking more than just surface-level change, people who want deeper connection, peace, and joy. Those who are ready to learn to live more authentically and intentionally. Using my training in EMDR and the Enneagram, along with other evidence-based practices, I guide people in uncovering patterns that once offered protection, but have now become roadblocks to personal development. I am a relational therapist, meaning that I build a reparative connected relationship with my clients, offering an opportunity for them to feel seen in a way they have been longing for. I have seen time and again how such unconditional support and understanding creates fertile soil for people to grow into who they most deeply wish to be. Clients often express that they feel a sense of warmth, safety and trust with me. If you're ready to get unstuck, reach out today for a free consultation to see if I'm the right fit for you! 646-510-1886 leah@leahfoxtherapy.com

11/13/2025

Belonging is not a thought — it’s a physiological experience.
It begins when the body feels safe enough to connect.
💠 The Science:
* The ventral vagal state is the branch of the parasympathetic system responsible for social engagement and connection.
* When active, it improves heart-rate variability, supports emotional regulation, and strengthens the immune system.
* Eye contact, tone of voice, and gentle movement activate this pathway.
💠 The Somatic Experience:
* When your body relaxes, your capacity to connect expands.
* Safety is contagious — the body reads cues of calmness, not words.
* Belonging happens in the space between regulated nervous systems.
💠 The Practice:
* Before seeking connection, find your ground.
* Feel your feet, notice your breath, soften your jaw.
* Let your voice be slower, your gaze steadier.
* Step outside — let the natural world co-regulate with you.
You don’t have to perform to belong.
Your biology already knows how.
The body’s wisdom is relational —
it’s how safety becomes love,
and love becomes home.

11/12/2025

The Sexual One (“Zeal”) is the countertype of Type One—
the reformer whose passion is ignited rather than restrained.
💠 Somatically:
– Warm chest, lifted sternum, pulsing aliveness in the heart
– Body leans forward with conviction
– Tension melts into radiance when acceptance is felt
💠 Psychologically:
– Channel perfectionism into inspiration
– Transforms self-criticism into idealistic devotion
– Risks projecting the inner critic onto loved ones
💠 Spiritually:
– Integration comes through surrender: letting passion serve love instead of judgment.
– True purity is not control—it’s wholehearted presence.
🔥 The Sexual One teaches us that holiness isn’t sterile; it’s alive.

11/11/2025

Trust is not rebuilt in the mind —
it’s rebuilt through the body.
💠 The Science:
* Relational rupture triggers the amygdala and sympathetic activation — the same circuitry as physical danger.
* Repair begins when ventral vagal pathways re-engage through cues of safety: warmth, tone, gaze, pacing.
* Over time, repeated co-regulation forms new neural pathways of trust — literally rewiring the brain.
💠 The Somatic Experience:
After hurt, the nervous system contracts to protect.
Repair requires safety signals strong enough to invite reopening.
When both bodies slow down, breathe, and attune,
trust becomes embodied again — not theoretical.
💠 The Practice:
* Speak slowly; let silence have space.
* Name what’s real without blaming or rushing.
* Place a hand on your chest; feel your own heart calm as you stay present.
* When the other person softens, soften too.
Repair is relational regulation in motion —
a dance between courage and safety.
This is how the body learns to love again.

11/10/2025

The Social Nine (“Participation”) is the countertype of Type Nine—
the most active, assertive, and seemingly outgoing of all Nines.
They seek harmony not through withdrawal but through involvement.
They merge by becoming indispensable.
💠 Somatically:
– Constant low-grade activation in the chest and solar plexus
– Body leans forward, attuned to others’ needs and signals
– Difficulty feeling boundaries or stillness
💠 Psychologically:
– Confuses presence with performance
– Equates being needed with being loved
– Avoids inner conflict by overcommitting externally
💠 Spiritually:
– The path is not more doing but conscious being.
– Presence itself becomes participation.
– When they root into stillness, their love radiates instead of disperses.
✨ Mantra: “I am not here to fill space. I am the space.”

11/08/2025

True surrender is an act of power, not passivity.
It begins inside the body—
when we feel safe enough to let go without collapsing,
when the nervous system trusts that openness won’t lead to harm.
That’s why, in trauma healing and attachment work,
we emphasize self-trust before surrender.
When the inner masculine—the part of us that provides clarity and containment—is strong,
the inner feminine—the part that feels, flows, and receives—can open without fear.
Submission is compliance born of fear.
Surrender is expansion born of trust.
You can feel it in your body:
Submission contracts.
Surrender expands.
This is what makes polarity sustainable—
when neither energy dominates, but both are honored.
💬 Where in your life are you learning the difference between letting go and giving up?

11/07/2025

The Social Eight—known as Solidarity—is the countertype of Type Eight.
While most Eights channel power into autonomy,
this subtype channels it into service.
💠 Somatically:
– The body feels sturdy, open-chested, oriented forward but grounded.
– The energy moves toward the collective, not just self-preservation.
– There’s tension in the shoulders—a sense of holding the tribe.
💠 Psychologically:
– Motivated by justice, fairness, and protection of the vulnerable.
– Feels responsible for the wellbeing of the group.
– Uses anger as fuel for advocacy, not domination.
💠 Spiritually:
– The lesson is surrendering false responsibility—
learning that we serve best when we are not trying to control outcomes.
– True power flows through service, not self-assertion.
This is the paradox of the Social Eight:
the fiercest protector learns that humility is strength.
💬 Social Eights—how does your body feel when you’re protecting others versus when you allow yourself to be protected?

11/06/2025

Awe is more than a feeling — it’s a physiological event.
💠 The Science:
• fMRI studies show deactivation of the default mode network, reducing self-focus and mental chatter.
• Increased vagal tone enhances heart-rate variability — the body’s measure of emotional regulation.
• Blood flow shifts from the prefrontal cortex to sensory regions — improving presence, curiosity, and empathy.
• Regular experiences of awe are linked with lower inflammation and improved immune markers.
💠 The Somatic Experience:
Awe lengthens the breath, softens the belly, and releases the jaw.
It widens our field of perception — restoring coherence between brain, body, and environment.
💠 The Practice:
* Step outside without an agenda.
* Pause before a tree, a mountain, a storm.
* Feel your body’s response — not the thought of beauty, but the pulse of it.
Awe reminds us that we are not the center of the story —
and that is the most healing realization of all.
The nervous system doesn’t need perfection.
It needs participation — and wonder is how we rejoin the world.

11/05/2025

Most people know the Sexual Six as the famous countertype—
the courageous, rebellious Six that contradicts the stereotype of anxiety.
But Chestnut & Paes showed us that each type has its own countertype:
the subtype whose instinctual drive reverses or compensates for the core passion.
The countertype is like a mirror image of the fixation:
* Type Two’s countertype gives love indirectly through duty.
* Type Eight’s countertype protects others rather than asserting self.
* Type Four’s countertype hides suffering behind sociability.
Countertypes remind us that behavior is not type.
They reveal how instinctual energy modulates the same core drive.
Understanding them expands our compassion—
for ourselves and for others who express the same wound differently.
💬 Have you ever wondered why someone of your same type feels completely opposite to you? You might be meeting your countertype.
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11/04/2025

The three instincts—Self-Preservation, Social, and Sexual—are the body’s ancient survival strategies.
They shape not just how we act, but why we act.
💠 Self-Preservation:
Focuses on physical safety, comfort, and resource stability.
Somatically: grounding, contraction, containment.
💠 Social:
Focuses on belonging, hierarchy, and relational attunement.
Somatically: open chest, lifted eyes, warmth through the face.
💠 Sexual (One-to-One):
Focuses on intensity, vitality, and fusion.
Somatically: heat, aliveness, direct gaze, charge in the core.
Each type expresses its fixation through these instincts—
but when one runs against the type’s passion, we meet a countertype.
Countertypes are not errors—they are evolutionary adaptations.
They show us how the nervous system improvises to stay safe while still seeking love.
✨ The spiritual invitation is to bring awareness into instinct—
to honor the body’s wisdom while freeing it from fear.
When we integrate our instincts, our essence can move through the body freely.

11/01/2025

The arrows of the Enneagram show how our psyche and body collaborate to return us to balance.
They’re not moral hierarchies or fixed sequences —
they’re the nervous system’s natural pathways of reorganization.
💠 Moving Toward the Arrow (→):
– Activates energy, engagement, and agency
– Integrates qualities your type tends to repress
– Expands capacity, breath, and participation
💠 Moving Against the Arrow (←):
– Reveals unconscious strategies of safety and early wounding
– Softens contraction and restores connection
– Invites reparenting, compassion, and embodied repair
💠 Somatic Wisdom:
Every arrow movement corresponds to a shift in the body’s tone:
from freeze to flow, fight to assertiveness, fawn to authenticity.
The nervous system learns through oscillation —
each movement rebalances presence.
✨ The arrows remind us:
Transformation isn’t about improvement — it’s about inclusion.
The body already knows the way home.
Note: Toward reflects activation; against reflects reparenting.
Both movements can express as contraction or integration, depending on awareness.

10/31/2025

The Arrow Movement of Type Seven teaches the art of grounded joy.
Each direction restores balance—one through focus, the other through depth.
💠 TOWARD → Type One (Activation):
– In contraction: rigidity, frustration, judgment.
– In integration: discernment, discipline, integrity.
– Somatic cue: breath stabilizes; spine straightens; energy centers.
💠 AGAINST ← Type Five (Reparenting):
– In contraction: isolation, emotional detachment.
– In integration: stillness, depth, contemplative joy.
– Somatic cue: energy descends; breath expands into the belly; pace slows.
✨ The Seven’s freedom expands, not through escape,
but through devotion—to presence, to depth, to enough.
Note: Both arrow directions can manifest in either contraction or integration.
Toward reflects activation; against reflects reparenting.

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