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The power of pausing to heal unconscious wounds In an attempt to be successful and loved, we pile up our lives with tasks and responsibilities that we believe will bring us the love we need and the success we deserve. This is a trauma re

Yara Grant 08/07/2022 Yara Grant 08/07/2022

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Early developmental traumas Most of us believe that trauma is only related to big events such as war, physical violence and big accidents. Unfortunately, trauma is more common than we think. It can indeed be related to single big events

Yara Grant 06/07/2022 Yara Grant 06/07/2022

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The art of taking small steps So many of us have great ideas and dreams, only to find ourselves stuck when we try to implement and achieve them. Very often we end up in a state of freeze - equal parts of sympathetic (fight /flight - mo

Yara Grant 02/07/2022 Yara Grant 02/07/2022

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Why so many of us are feeling burned out? It’s not a surprise that in a society that values “doing” over “being” that burnout is on the rise. To add insult to injury, so many of us use people pleasing (fawn) as a survival strategy. We

Yara Grant 29/06/2022 Yara Grant 29/06/2022

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Anger and personal power In a 1:1 Deep Dive session (parts work/intention method), a couple of weeks ago, I held space for a client that could only feel anger while getting in touch with one of the parts. The part was angry and that was

Yara Grant 28/06/2022 Yara Grant 28/06/2022

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Why I don’t prescribe set exercises for the nervous system People often come to me wanting to do a few sessions to learn specific exercises for the vagus nerve and the nervous system.  Yes, while working with me they will learn exe

Yara Grant 27/06/2022 Yara Grant 27/06/2022

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Teaching your children self regulation skills Most of us have not learnt self regulation skills when we were young. Due to our parents’ own stresses, traumas, family patterns or simply lack of knowledge; we were told to stop crying and

Yara Grant 26/06/2022 Yara Grant 26/06/2022

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Medical trauma Many of us are not aware, that surgery, medical and dental procedures, could leave incomplete protective response (fight/flight/freeze/shutdown) “stuck” in the nervous system. For instance, when we are put under general

Yara Grant 24/06/2022 Yara Grant 24/06/2022

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Regulated parents = regulated children The human species is the only species that is born incredibly helpless and this helplessness last for many years. Even the human brain development follows this trend. With the brain only reaching fu

Yara Grant 23/06/2022 Yara Grant 23/06/2022

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You can’t override your nervous system with mindset work After trauma we lose coherence between mind, emotions, body and soul. Remembering that trauma is not only related to wars, accidents and extreme events. Trauma is not in the even

Yara Grant 22/06/2022 Yara Grant 22/06/2022

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Your protective parts can sabotage your healing We hear the term self sabotage everywhere, but it’s just parts of you that self sabotage. It’s not the real you that plays this role. When there is trauma in your system ( anything that w

Yara Grant 19/06/2022 Yara Grant 19/06/2022

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Building a relationship with your nervous system by using your resources A Resource is something that brings you back into the present moment and helps you stay in your body. Anything that you find useful to help you go through an activa

Yara Grant 16/06/2022 Yara Grant 16/06/2022

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Setting internal boundaries - part 2 Expanding on my last post, having internal boundaries is an important step, because if we don’t have them or by violating them; we unintentionally start building resentment in relationships. Taking

Yara Grant 15/06/2022 Yara Grant 15/06/2022

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Setting internal boundaries - part 1 If you are on a healing journey you probably have worked or will work on boundaries at some point. More often than not, boundaries will challenge our people pleasing tendencies, that’s why it can fe

Yara Grant 14/06/2022 Yara Grant 14/06/2022

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Excessive tears as a sign of dysregulation and fragmentation In my previous post I shared the benefits of tears. But too many tears, at inappropriate times, can also mean nervous system dysregulation and psyche fragmentation. A fragmen

Yara Grant 08/06/2022 Yara Grant 08/06/2022

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