Dorie Silverman

Dorie Silverman Settle your Sh*t - Online Somatic Yoga Classes, Anxiety and Depression specialist - Group and One on One work

As someone who has suffered from anxiety, depression, hopelessness, grief, medical and emotional trauma and tried every possible treatment from medical to alternative, I serve individuals like me who are ready for a foundational change. When I found Somatic Experiencing I was wallowing in debilitating anxiety and grief after the death of my mom. Somatic Experiencing was the key to bringing all of the other healing work I was doing to fruition. I offer this healing work because as someone who has done it all, I finally feel different in my own skin. And you can too

I provide a comfortable and safe environment that encourages learning your own nervous system and postural patterns. Integrating healthy movement, Somatic Experiencing, and mindfulness techniques, we will work with those patterns to support healing, ease, and freedom from chronic anxiety, depression, and overwhelm that comes from unresolved trauma. My intention is to empower clients to find self-awareness, self-love, and ultimately a feeling of greater ease in their own skin in order to live full, rich, and meaningful lives. You can work with me in private therapy, group therapy, and at Settle Your Sh*t workshops throughout Chicagoland and Southern California.

07/01/2025
Mom would have been 80 day.  Love and miss this creative, community oriented, stylish lady.  Grief is a forever process ...
05/20/2025

Mom would have been 80 day. Love and miss this creative, community oriented, stylish lady.

Grief is a forever process of feeling your emotions when they show up. It shows your love and care for those who live forever in your heart.

Happy birthday Gayle🥰


















 
 








One of the surprising side affects of leaving my home of 16 years is the ability to be so present to each moment.  For s...
07/07/2024

One of the surprising side affects of leaving my home of 16 years is the ability to be so present to each moment.

For someone with C-PTSD and high anxiety and depression for so long, presence has been hard for my system . I’ve worked for years to be embodied and regulated.

Now, as my system knows something amazing is ending, and it has the capacity to soak in the present, it wants to savor all of these incredible last moments.




























To my mama Gayle Helene Gabel Silverman.  Happy birthday to you.  Creative, smart, curious, productive.  You lived a ful...
05/21/2024

To my mama Gayle Helene Gabel Silverman.

Happy birthday to you. Creative, smart, curious, productive. You lived a full life. 8 years after your passing I appreciating all of the beautiful qualities you possess and what you passed down. I feel you with me so much lately. In the kitchen cooking, outside with the flowers, and when I’m making big decisions. I’ve been calling on you a lot and I feel, see and hear your influence in my life, your support and love from the other side of the veil. It’s amazing to me how much deeper our relationship is now than when you were alive.

I love you and thank you.
Happy 79th birthday
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Another successful Somatics for Therapists workshop completed.  Thank you  for inviting me to your staff retreat🙌🏽💕.  It...
03/18/2024

Another successful Somatics for Therapists workshop completed. Thank you for inviting me to your staff retreat🙌🏽💕. It was a delight




























I wish for all of us to find a sense of connection and a place where love can be given and received inside your own skin...
02/15/2024

I wish for all of us to find a sense of connection and a place where love can be given and received inside your own skin.

A loved space created connecting your body and your mind

Your emotions, images, impulses, sensation and meaning that you hold within you.

I wish for you to experience walking in a place you’ve walked a million times and revel at the amazement of colors, textures and designs on that walk. A deep recognition that someday you won’t be able to see, hear, taste or smell. But you can now.

Open your eyes wider to see the artistry, forethought and magic of whatever you’re looking at.

Soak in the sparkle of the morning dew at sunrise and acknowledge the magic

These experiences exist beyond dysregulation, anxiety and depression

They are in you just waiting to be discovered. Under traumas old patterns

You have something special to do in the world.

Let’s clear the s**t
And
Get
To
Fully Living

Get your (Free guide)How to get Unstuck.

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Navigating the holidays and grief .
11/23/2023

Navigating the holidays and grief .

I cannot tell you how many clients and friends I've talked to lately about how emotional this time of year is.  Being with family can be nourishing.  It can also be very triggering.  This is especially true if you have a parent or other close loved one who has passed.&

Dosing beauty and pleasure when I found a surprise sparkly and colorful tile mural todayThroughout your day pause when y...
10/24/2023

Dosing beauty and pleasure when I found a surprise sparkly and colorful tile mural today

Throughout your day pause when you find something your senses are enjoying and soak in the sensory experience of enjoyment in your body.

Why?
This helps your nervous system to return to ventral. The more you dose ventral experiences the more your system will learn how to go there after feeling anxious or overwhelmed.






























Reclaiming activities that bring me joy has been a part of my healing journey.  Wanna play “analyze the lyrics” with me?...
05/05/2023

Reclaiming activities that bring me joy has been a part of my healing journey.

Wanna play “analyze the lyrics” with me?

What memory, meaning, image or impulse do these lyrics evoke in you?

“Feeling good is what you’re paving the way for.” -Carole king

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Your body is giving you all of the information you need to become embodied, present and feel at ease.  We're just not us...
05/02/2023

Your body is giving you all of the information you need to become embodied, present and feel at ease.

We're just not used to paying attention to ourselves in a somatic way. We're used to processing thoughts and judgements and beliefs. Figuring out why you think act and feel the way you feel has become the norm for healing. However, what we're learning is there's more. Correction, there's less.

Well, either way you look at it, the answers lie in a different part of you. The part that experiences everything, feels, sense, hears, tastes, smells, experiences sensations on your skin and inside you. The part that has impulses and memories. This incredible nervous system of yours that has been keeping you alive forever is just patiently waiting for you to listen to what it needs so you can provide it.

And when you attend to your nervous system, things start to shift.
You'll feel:
~present
~curious
~motivated
~safe
~at home in your body
~have clarity on what you want and what you don't want
~more empathic and feel connection with others
~less triggered and affected by others
~sense when you've reached limits and speak up when you need space or something else from another person without feeling guilty
~able to step towards the things you're really wanting
~clear yes, no or I don't know from your gut

Learn how to attend to your nervous system and become your own medicine with Somatic Therapy.

There are currently a few spaces for 1 on 1 work

OR

Dip your toe in with a Somatic yoga/bowspring class this week.
Every little bit makes a big difference in your Nervous System

You are not alone
With LOVE and Regulation
Dorie

Registration is open for the Digesting emotions workshop.Learn how to feel more at ease and connected to yourself and ot...
04/02/2023

Registration is open for the Digesting emotions workshop.

Learn how to feel more at ease and connected to yourself and others by digesting your emotions.

Undigested emotions are keeping you anxious, depressed and stuck.

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