Matrix
reimprinting
What is Matrix Reimprinting (MR)?
MR gently harnesses the latest scientific research on neuroplasticity to help your nervous system recalibrate and heal.
As your MR practitioner safely guides you, your brain begins rewiring by forming new neural pathways.
MR achieves this by supporting your Younger Self (YS) and helping her reprocess stuck feelings, emotions, and sensations, so she can finally be released from her “trauma capsule.” The shifts are typically permanent.
These YSs have been waiting to be seen and heard by you to finally get the support they never got back then.
MR is gentle on the nervous system, so you are never asked to “relive the trauma” in the here and now.
With your MR practitioner’s expert guidance, your job is to help free your Younger Selves still trapped by trauma.
When beliefs formed by trauma get released, you no longer fall into the same patterns and can finally live your life without feeling, believing, behaving, and/or making decisions like your traumatized Younger Self would have had to.
To break old patterns of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and sensations, your MR practitioner supports you in reprocessing them at the root to allow new ones to emerge through the images created with your younger self’s guidance.
The simplified MR sequence below helps visually illustrate what the process may look and feel like, as it unfolds over the span of one session or several, depending on trauma complexity.
MR doesn’t deny the memory itself as what happened can’t be undone. Rather, it releases the memory’s emotional charge.
ASKING- First, we ask about the challenging thought, feeling, belief, pattern, or memory. If you are unsure or feeling stuck, we use somatic tools to guide you.
FINDING- Next, we find the root cause of it in the past, often a younger version of you in childhood, but not always. Trauma may also be pre-verbal or generational.
ENTERING- You then enter the associated memory (or image, sensation, etc.) as your current self to learn to work with this younger version of you.
CONNECTING- You meet and talk to your younger self, asking what she thinks and feels, and with guidance, you help her reprocess painful emotions and beliefs.
REPROCESSING- We use somatic resources, tools, and techniques to help your younger self create a new positive memory, image, or felt sense.
REWIRING- Finally, you get to take in the new image, emotions, sensations and beliefs into your brain, body, and heart to begin neural pathway rewiring.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process
Is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.
— Brené Brown
quick MR facts
Shifting trauma-associated mental pictures and sensory aspects has a profoundly healing effect on the nervous system.
Think about how many times you’ve replayed negative events in your mind. MR offers a way to create a new, fully supported and resourced, empowering experience connecting you to a new felt sense of these memories.
Because subconscious trauma images influence your overall health and well-being, altering them can lead to life-transforming physiological changes, while honoring your story and the wounds attached to it.
MR allows your Younger Selves (who hold the trauma) to reimagine past negative memories in a way that finally empowers you. You can express what you wish you had said or done, or introduce supportive resources, and even bring in virtual helpers to support you. Integrating this process with EFT tapping points can be highly impactful.
MR literally rewires how your neural pathways engage with and experience your current world on every level, by providing your subconscious with supplemental constructive imagery around past trauma.
As a standalone or effectively combined with EFT, hypnosis, Inner Child work, and somatic parts work, MR is versatile enough to address emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual challenges.
Key MR benefits:
Is a faster and more creative modality compared to old-fashioned traditional talk, or Cognitive Based Therapy
Works by engaging the imagination/subconscious rather than solely relying on cognitive reprocessing
Helps uncover and resolve the root causes of issues, even if the memories are blocked or preconscious
Transforms decades-old negative core beliefs and create life-changing emotional, relational, or physical shifts
Supports healing from various traumas, such as childhood, sexual, relational, religious, birth- or grief-related
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
—Kahlil Gibran
"I WAS REFERRED TO SOPHIE FOR HELP WITH CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, AND I’M SO THANKFUL FOR THE RECOMMENDATION. I CAN’T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT HOW SOPHIE AND MATRIX REIMPRINTING HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE! I HAD BEEN STUCK IN A LOOP OF ANXIETY AND SELF-DOUBT, ALL TIED TO UNRESOLVED TRAUMA. MATRIX REIMPRINTING IS NOTHING SHORT OF MAGICAL, AND SOPHIE IS SUCH A SKILLED AND COMPASSIONATE GUIDE! MATRIX REIMPRINTING ALLOWED ME TO REVISIT MY PAST IN A WAY THAT FEELS SAFE AND SUPPORTED, WALKING AWAY WITH A NEWFOUND SENSE OF CLARITY AND PEACE. IT’S AMAZING HOW SOMETHING SO SIMPLE AND CREATIVE CAN MAKE SUCH A HUGE DIFFERENCE!”
—Malia T, Washington DC, USA
