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Allostatic load, rest and healing If you are on a healing journey you may go through phases where you feel extremely and unusually tired. Needing lots of rest and sleep. When the body is in a fight/flight/freeze/shutdown state for so l

Yara Grant 15/05/2023 Yara Grant 15/05/2023

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Boundaries & healing Taking time off from certain people and situations is an important part of the healing journey. Boundaries are a necessary aspect of mature and healthy relationships. It’s not uncommon to feel selfish when you

Yara Grant 13/05/2023 Yara Grant 13/05/2023

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Co-rumination vs co-regulation Human beings are wired for connection. This need for connection is like air for infants. Children need food, clothes and shelter, but love, eye contact, empathy and connection with caregivers is equally imp

Yara Grant 11/05/2023 Yara Grant 11/05/2023

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Why do I notice myself feeling angry as I start to come out of shutdown? Shutdown (dorsal vagal) is the highest level of protection the nervous system “activates” to keep you safe. It’s important to know that “inside” shutdown there is

Yara Grant 10/05/2023 Yara Grant 10/05/2023

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Food, emotional eating and trauma (Part 3 - back to basics) So what to do? Back to basics… I’m sharing below a few pointers. Feel free to add any other pointers you found helpful in your own life, in the comments. 🌿 Focus on recove

Yara Grant 07/05/2023 Yara Grant 07/05/2023

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Food, emotional eating and trauma (Part 2 - food protocols) In the last decades society has been increasingly worried about food protocols and food purity. Taking care of our health and being concerned with what we put into our bodies is

Yara Grant 05/05/2023 Yara Grant 05/05/2023

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Food, emotional eating and trauma (Part 1 - how food is connected to nurturing) When we were babies and hunger struck, a caregiver would breastfeed or bottle feed us. And coupled with this action, most commonly, they would hold us in the

Yara Grant 01/05/2023 Yara Grant 01/05/2023

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Nervous system regulation practices can backfire If you have unresolved/incomplete survival stress “stuck” in your nervous system, specially if your system “setting” is to go into freeze or shutdown, the last thing you want to do is star

Yara Grant 25/04/2023 Yara Grant 25/04/2023

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Nervous system shutdown (and what to do) Through a Polyvagal lens, we learn that shutdown (Dorsal) is an extreme self protective level of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). In this state we feel hopeless, disconnected, numb, low in en

Yara Grant 21/04/2023 Yara Grant 21/04/2023

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Your life is not supposed to revolve around trauma healing work You are not your trauma. You are not what happened to you. You might have some symptoms showing up and your nervous system might be in need of regulation, but obsessively

Yara Grant 16/04/2023 Yara Grant 16/04/2023

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Your anger is a result of unresolved wounds Have you ever found yourself disproportionately angry in certain situations? The kind that after the event you think: “Wow, where did that come from?” Sudden bursts of disproportionate anger

Yara Grant 14/04/2023 Yara Grant 14/04/2023

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Struggling to start and keeping new habits? The nervous system is the ruler of the body-mind complex. If your nervous system is dysregulated because of chronic stress and/or trauma you will struggle to start healthy habits. At times yo

Yara Grant 12/04/2023 Yara Grant 12/04/2023

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Mindset work is overrated We humans are so used to “work” on ourselves. To create strategy, to delete limiting beliefs, to receive coaching, to participate in retreats, to practice various meditation methods and and and... But none of t

Yara Grant 07/04/2023 Yara Grant 07/04/2023

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Nervous system resilience Healing and integrating everything that has been “stuck” in the body for years, and for some of us issues that even started during the gestational period, takes time. It takes building up capacity and resilience

Yara Grant 04/04/2023 Yara Grant 04/04/2023

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If your nervous system has been running on fight/flight mode, taking a vacation or forcefully slowing down your activities can be unhelpful. Your system might see slowing down as a red flag, feeling more threatened. Do this instead… When

Yara Grant 30/03/2023 Yara Grant 30/03/2023

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Resources & how to use them (a common misconception) You probably have read on my page some information about resources. To recap: resources are simply gentle activities (that you use alone or with others in co-regulation) to help

Yara Grant 27/03/2023 Yara Grant 27/03/2023

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A few things to understand about your nervous system's states There are inbuilt defense states that our bodies cleverly display (reflexively) whenever it perceives a threat. The threat might not be real, but the nervous system perceives

Yara Grant 23/03/2023 Yara Grant 23/03/2023

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Finding tiny moments of safety and connection Many of us have not had good regulation growing up and are oscillating between fight, flight, freeze and shutdown. For instance, in freeze or shutdown we can develop many survival strategie

Yara Grant 22/03/2023 Yara Grant 22/03/2023

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Somatic healing work is not the same as talk therapy When you first start somatic sessions, such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), you might be expecting to speak about specific traumas, explaining your past or finding solutions for the stre

Yara Grant 21/03/2023 Yara Grant 21/03/2023

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A felt sense of safety as a shortcut to well-being Cultivating a felt sense of safety within yourself will allow your body to self heal and to regulate your emotions more easily. A body that is constantly in a state of self-protection

Yara Grant 19/03/2023 Yara Grant 19/03/2023

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