Category: Emotional Triggers
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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…
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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…
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Neuroscienctifically, what is Stress Response?
When we hear fight-flight response, what does this actually mean, neuroscienctifically? The sympathetic response in the nervous system, referred to as fight-flight, is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to our survival. It is activated through neuroception, meaning threats are detected by our nerves and neurosignals…
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Benefits of Conscious Breathwork
Deep and rhythmic diaphragmatic breathing helps to calm your thoughts, slow down your heart rate, and regulate your autonomic nervous system. When you’re focusing on something that requires your full and undivided attention, focused patterned breathing helps you direct what your mind is paying attention to and focus on that thing without any distractions. When…
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The Process of Co-Regulation
Co-regulation is the way that the nervous system of one individual influences the nervous system of another. It’s an interpersonal, neurological and biological process. Co-regulation begins with the shared experience between a developing baby and mother. Before birth, the baby hears its mother’s voice, which becomes a sound of safety. As an infant, it pairs…
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New Year, Same Old You?
Have your New Year’s resolutions fallen through? Do you set new year resolutions every year and just naturally find yourself back in old patterns? Do you know what is going on here? Hardwired programming and stored trauma in the body: this energy is embodied, with programming running through every nerve ending, muscle, tissue, organ, cell,…
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What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic Therapy resolves symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, shock, and other traumas that accumulate in our bodies and neural pathway. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, freeze or fawn, somatic therapy helps us to release this energy, recover and recalibrate, and move back into a healthy baseline. In this state we are…
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Abandonment Wounding
What an abandonment wound generally looks like: It creates a series of limiting beliefs that are hardwired in the neurobiological pathway and play out in real-time through actions, decisions, words, thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Deep within the psyche is an inner child that believes & feels: “I’m not loveable. I’m not wanted. I’m not worthy.…
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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…
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My Story…
So you can feel me, I would like to give a short overview of my own journey from being in trauma to healing and awareness. I am well informed in how early trauma manifests in adulthood as I have lived experience. Unconsciously I carried emotional wounding and imprints from childhood into my adulthood, where I…
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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…
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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…
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Lose Control; Surrender To Happiness
As humans, we are deeply conditioned to spend our lives trying to create the “perfect conditions” to live. We spend years in college studying to qualify to enter the system, work 8-5 Monday to Friday, seek out promotions to earn a little more, we seek to feel more worthy in a world that places net…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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