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  • The Vagus Nerve and the Gut

    The vagus nerve has 80% of its branches in the parasympathetic nervous system, our rest and digest system. To have optimal digestion, we have to be in a calm & safe state in our nervous system. Optimal vagus function drives digestion, assimilation and elimination. If someone is hardwired to chronic stress, in trauma response and…

    danielle hayes

    January 10, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Interoceptive Awareness and the Vagus Nerve 

    Interoception is the perception of sensations in the body – our 8th sense, and ability to identify and process internal electrical patterns. It is the information processing on the ascending branch of the brain–body axis. It can include physical sensations such as heart beat, tingling sensations, buzzing, muscle contractions, pulsating, hunger cues; as well as…

    danielle hayes

    June 8, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • Neurogenic Tremoring for Trauma Release

    This here is Somatic Experiencing with Neurogenic Tremoring This one way that the body releases trauma, tension, stress, anxiety, and past painful experiences that have been stored or imprinted deep within the muscles and fascia (fibrous tissue). The body is this intelligent and this powerful…. When we stuff away pain, the body stores the memories…

    danielle hayes

    May 13, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • The Nervous System

    I truly believe the world of mental health will transform when people realise the pivotal role of the nervous system in human well being. The NS, how it is wired, what trauma and/or programming it is holding onto and storing, dictates overall human wellbeing and functioning. It informs our behaviours, thoughts, emotions, patterns, reactions and…

    danielle hayes

    April 12, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • Three Truths About Trauma

    danielle hayes

    March 14, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • Navigating And Recovering From Emotional Triggers

    There are conscious somatic cues that you can apply when in a triggered experience, to support the body and brain in returning to homeostasis so it can recover from a heightened episode: 1. BREATHE Intentional breathwork pattern interrupts your mind from spiralling/snowballing off into unfavourable thoughts. Breathing deep breaths helps to re-regulate the nervous system…

    danielle hayes

    March 14, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • The Neurobiological Process of an Emotional Trigger

    When you’re in a trigger, your executive thinking and logical brain shuts down. The limbic system and emotional, survival brain takes over. The emotional brain holds our subconscious fixed memories so our emotional processes and responses are generally informed by how we were hardwired and attuned in our childhood developmental stages. In this instance of…

    danielle hayes

    March 8, 2022
    Emotional Triggers
  • Healing Abandonment Wounding: Charlene’s Story

    “Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically that then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you’re acting out of pain. It induces fear and now you’re acting out of fear. The essence of trauma is disconnection from ourselves. Trauma is not terrible things that happen from…

    danielle hayes

    May 27, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • The Healing Powers of Your Vagus Nerve

    The autonomic nervous system is a component of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary physiologic processes including heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual arousal. It contains three anatomically distinct divisions: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric. The sympathetic nervous system is our UPPER. It’s more commonly known as our fight or flight response. When we…

    danielle hayes

    May 23, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • How We Discharge Traumatic Energy

    Neurogenic shaking… What is this? Essentially, this is how we discharge the stress/pain energy induced within the nervous system and neuroendocrine system after experiencing a traumatic event that caused internal stress and a “shock to the system” Dr. PeterLevine (the founder of Somatic Experiencing) was inspired to study stress on the animal nervous system when…

    danielle hayes

    May 20, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Loss and Grief: Jessie’s Story

    Grief is a dense emotion and runs so deep. It triggers abandonment, a feeling of hopelessness and loneliness, spiralling into feeling frozen in time and a lack of motivation or willpower for life. Usually we don’t want to face the pain of loss, so we cognitively dissociate or numb out from it. We love so…

    danielle hayes

    May 16, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Releasing Energetic Imprints

    Here is my coaching client Siobhan explaining how a traumatic imprint from childhood informed her perceptions, beliefs, feelings and thoughts, behaviours, which embedded into her nervous system, limbic system, biochemistry and gene expression, and hardwired into her neural matrix. She lived in chronic cycles of survival her whole life, which we have been actively rewiring…

    danielle hayes

    May 8, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Why use a “Bottom Up” Approach

    The science shows that we’re “bottom-up” beings. We are embodied electricity and frequency 80% of the informational electrical impulses and transmitted messages being signalled through our vagus nerve are from the body to the brain through the gut-brain axis. Only 20% are signalled from the brain to the body. The explicit and declarative memory centre…

    danielle hayes

    May 8, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • “I can’t think straight”

    Traumatic events are impossible to put into words, as stated by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the author of best selling book “the body knows the score” This is because during experiences of trauma, Broca’s area of the brain, which is the part responsible for speech production, shuts down, compromising our ability to describe how…

    danielle hayes

    May 7, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • 3 Red Flags of Dissociation

    Some signs of dissociation in terms of what it looks, sounds and feels like: 1) ContradictionWords don’t match with behaviours and actions. There’s incoherence between brain and body. Its also true that their neurodevelopmental patterns and attachment system is attempting to connect for comfort, however there is a huge layer of safety as their defense…

    danielle hayes

    May 3, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Tina’s Memoir

    Tina is moving into month 9 of her somatic healing journey. She has been working with me at a coaching capacity since September, on my higher awakening programme. She has been actively healing and rewiring her nervous system, and clearing the imprints of pain, trauma, rejection, self doubt, from her neural pathway, under my guidance…

    danielle hayes

    May 3, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Amy’s Story

    My client Amy in a whole body Neogenic Release, which persisted for 35 minutes. She has been on my coaching programme since September last year and has made transformative internal transitions and changes… her behaviours, thoughts, beliefs, awareness, feelings, actions, words have all changed in accordance with healing her neuroceptive pathway. She is becoming a…

    danielle hayes

    April 30, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Your Tree Of Life

    You’ve tried it all, cognitive therapies, CBT, counselling, psychotherapy, yet you are still reliving and experiencing the same cyclical patterns of emotions, feelings, sensations, numbness, bodily tightness, thoughts… You’ve tried other portals… mindfulness, journaling, trying to just think positive, energy work (reiki, rahanni, angelic, plant med) You know on a mind level, and consciously want…

    danielle hayes

    April 29, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Ixchels Road To Recovery

    Ixchel initially began working with me, on my coaching programme, in March 2022 to work through various neurodevelopmental patterns and emotional woundings that were causing regular anxiety attacks and cycles of depression We were also preparing her nervous system, mind and body for a life changing operation that was just around the corner… She was…

    danielle hayes

    April 27, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • The Core of Psychosomatics

    At the core of my work is… To create a neurobiology of safety and security To take a journey into the autonomic nervous system and learn to connect with the language, cognition and narratives of the body To create an embodied awareness, meaning, an expansive inner sense of self that feels connected, safe and supportive…

    danielle hayes

    April 24, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Retrace and Resolve

    Your body will tell you what previous traumas need to be retraced, recalled and resolved The body doesn’t speak words as a way of remembering the past. It speaks implicitly, non verbally, through various sensory cues and electrical impulses It communicates through tightening, bracing, collapsing, withdrawing, numbing, dissociating, freezing…. Movements, sensations, pain, facial expressions, tone…

    danielle hayes

    April 19, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Addicted to stress?

    Are you living in cyclical states of stress, panic and anxiety? Is your neurobiological and neuroceptive pathway conditioned to states of fear? Is your nervous system programmed to safety or survival response? Is your body in a cycle of producing fear proteins to “keep you safe”? Are you always on the go and struggle to…

    danielle hayes

    April 4, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • What a “Kundalini Awakening” scientifically is

    My somatic work is build on the foundations of Polyvagal theory, a proven neuroscientific approach to healing and retaining the autonomic nervous system and unconscious mind (the body). The shaking, swaying and neural tremoring you see in footage of my clients is induced by the nervous system. It is extremely safe, and is induced neural…

    danielle hayes

    March 29, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Who is Somatic Therapy for?

    Everyone! Somatic literally means working with the body, as opposed to the mind. 80% of your body’s signals are transmitted neurally to the CNS and brain from the peripheral nervous system and body. Only 20% is transmitted from the brain down. The brain is more of a logistics warehouse, our computer and projection screen. The…

    danielle hayes

    March 25, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • Dis-ease is caused by Dysregulation

    This statement is absolutely TRUE, and is based on the foundations of neuroscience and polyvagal theory You cannot argue science, as it is tangible, factual and supported by concrete evidence Do you care for your nervous system and internal energy system? Are you in cyclical states of stress response, fight and flight energy streams? Are…

    danielle hayes

    March 23, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • The impacts of unresolved trauma in the body

    1) Brain Architecture Our prefrontal cortex (front of the brain, used for logical thinking and cognitive behaviour) corpus callosum (a thick bundle of nerve fibres that ensures both sides of the brain, left and right, communicate and send signals to each other) and hippocampus (memory and learning centre) shrink in size and capacity, while the…

    danielle hayes

    March 20, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
  • When Trauma Leaves The Body

    This is what it looks like when the energy behind trauma, pain and stress is being discharged from the autonomic nervous system, somatic system and body. The energy here I refer to includes glucocorticoids (cortisol, cortisone) and catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine). Neurogenic shaking and tremoring, which you see here, happens when a trauma imprinted nervous…

    danielle hayes

    March 17, 2023
    Emotional Triggers
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