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Encountering grief on your healing journey For those of us who have gone through trauma, especially developmental trauma, at some point in the healing journey you may encounter deep grief. You may grieve the decades of constant struggl

Yara Grant 31/05/2024 Yara Grant 31/05/2024

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Fibromyalgia, IBS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chronic pain, mystery illnesses… These conditions are systemic. They don't develop suddenly. It takes years of emotional suppression, unresolved traumas and a pattern of pushing through life

Yara Grant 23/05/2024 Yara Grant 23/05/2024

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One aspect of boundaries that is often not spoken about is language With trauma there is often a rupture (disconnection) from other/s, which creates boundaries issues. From there on we can start to self-protect in relationships in ways

Yara Grant 21/05/2024 Yara Grant 21/05/2024

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We are all unique in how we experience life Your trauma is valid even if you hear from others or from your own self talk, some version of below statements: • It happened a long time ago. I should have been over it already. • People g

Yara Grant 14/05/2024 Yara Grant 14/05/2024

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Somatic work is important because… 🌿 It's impossible to process and integrate emotions without tapping into bodily sensations. 🌿 It's the only way to access and resolve early childhood experiences we don't have words and explicit memo

Yara Grant 12/05/2024 Yara Grant 12/05/2024

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When your body didn’t have a chance to complete the appropriate responses (fight/flight/freeze/shutdown), you will keep these incomplete responses “locked in” your system, perpetuating “outdated” and unhelpful patterns. The autonomic ner

Yara Grant 07/05/2024 Yara Grant 07/05/2024

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Negative thought loops have emotional charge that are felt in the body. Contributing to feelings of anxiety, helplessness, distress, low mood, hopelessness, etc… Negative thought loops are repetitive thought patterns on past negative exp

Yara Grant 05/05/2024 Yara Grant 05/05/2024

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The nervous system of someone who has gone through trauma, abuse or/and chronic stressful situations is hyper vigilant and in hyper arousal In a journey of deep healing and self discovery we all get to a point where healthy boundaries ne

Yara Grant 03/05/2024 Yara Grant 03/05/2024

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Crying and the nervous system A young child cries and everyone quickly wants the tears to stop. Using distraction, giving him/her toys, offering food or the old-fashioned and still much used: “Stop crying”. Most adults are uncomfortable

Yara Grant 01/05/2024 Yara Grant 01/05/2024

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True trauma healing work versus dissociative spiritual practices It’s not uncommon for people with a history of trauma to end up exploring “spiritual” options to heal; including, but not limited to: meditation, breathwork, tantra, non-du

Yara Grant 30/04/2024 Yara Grant 30/04/2024

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Hardships are not necessarily traumatic. It's possible to experience many difficulties in life and not be traumatised by them. The topic of trauma has become so popular that it's starting to take over common sense. Let's normalise havin

Yara Grant 26/04/2024 Yara Grant 26/04/2024

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A nervous system that has been through long periods of chronic stress and/or trauma… … is a system that is already in a state of hyperarousal and for many, like it was my case, there is a mixture of freeze/shutdown responses as well; hen

Yara Grant 25/04/2024 Yara Grant 25/04/2024

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When your nervous system is stuck in perceiving threat and lack of safety… You will be constantly rehashing old scenarios and responding inauthentically to the present moment. Your nervous system is what gives you the ability to be pres

Yara Grant 24/04/2024 Yara Grant 24/04/2024

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What is healing? What does it look like? Your current window of tolerance: • Narrow window. • Little to no capacity to feel and discern emotions. • Physical health symptoms. • Little flexibility in the nervous system. • Struggling t

Yara Grant 23/04/2024 Yara Grant 23/04/2024

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Human connection can feel threatening to a dysregulated nervous system It’s not uncommon for people, with a history of developmental trauma, finding difficult to trust others. As a result they find ways to detach emotionally from others

Yara Grant 22/04/2024 Yara Grant 22/04/2024

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Are you keen to start Somatic Experiencing sessions? (What you need to know) Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a method developed by Dr Peter Levine. It has been used with great success for over 40 years. This was a life saver on my own hea

Yara Grant 10/04/2024 Yara Grant 10/04/2024

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A few "side effects" of being disconnected from your body: • Difficulty in separating your own emotions from the emotions of others. • Inability to set boundaries. • Struggling to take responsibility for your own emotions. • Difficult

Yara Grant 05/04/2024 Yara Grant 05/04/2024

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There are no quick fixes when it comes to true deep healing Adjusting your expectations on your healing journey can spare you a lot of frustration and disappointment. Chronic stress and trauma “program” your nervous system to be in a st

Yara Grant 03/04/2024 Yara Grant 03/04/2024

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Deep somatic healing is not about avoiding stress at all times It's not about constantly doing somatic exercises to regulate your nervous system. It's not about mechanically and mindlessly going through a list of resources. 🌿 It’s abo

Kate Alexandra Priestley 01/04/2024 Kate Alexandra Priestley 01/04/2024

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Knowing the problem is not enough to stop the problem We can understand and know all the reasons we are acting in such unproductive and harmful ways, but telling ourselves logically why we shouldn’t feel and act in such ways won’t change

Yara Grant 28/03/2024 Yara Grant 28/03/2024

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