Welcome, Orit!

We’re so excited to share Dedeker’s conversation with Orit Krug today. Orit is an award-winning Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Orit helps individuals & couples expand their capacity for self-love and intimacy in relationships by processing past trauma stored in the body. Orit is polyamorous, partnered, and a parent to a toddler.

Some of the topics Dedeker and Orit cover today are:

1. What first drew you to doing movement/dance work?

2. When did you start working with non-monogamous clients? Is there anything in particular you notice about working with this population when it comes to working with the body?

3. Can you share about a time when you noticed a client's thoughts/beliefs about non-monogamy were in conflict with their somatic/body reactions?

4. Let’s talk about jealousy:

   • Do you mind sharing a little bit about what you notice happens in your body when you’re experiencing jealousy?

   • Is jealousy just a sensation to be regulated? Why or why not?

   • What somatic skills have you found to be the most helpful when you or a client are in the throes of jealousy?

   • How do we know when jealousy is “normal” vs when it’s a trauma response?

   • Can also get into tracking, uncovering past attachment injuries, etc. 

5. What’s your perspective on New Relationship Energy (NRE)? How can people harness it while still staying regulated?

6. Using somatic awareness and regulation skills in a healthy way versus when it tips over into a form of spiritual bypassing.

7. How can we access a sense of safety, indulgence, pleasure, and support in a world that full of anxiety, terror, and all consuming “shoulds”?

Find more about Orit and her work on her website, follow her on Instagram, access free somatic meditations here, and visit multiamory.com/retreat to learn more about the polyamorous couples healing retreat in Costa Rica that Orit and Dedeker will be co-hosting in April 2024!