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One thing that will hinder your life, if you keep doing it… Worrying Constantly looking for what’s wrong with you or how to fix your health and your life will keep your body in a state of alert and lack. Scanning for threat is, more of

Yara Grant 13/12/2024 Yara Grant 13/12/2024

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The “bad” habits you want to change the most are, in fact, your survival strategies At the time of your birth your nervous system is still immature. It needs time and a few years of good coregulation with primary caregivers to meet its f

Yara Grant 07/12/2024 Yara Grant 07/12/2024

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Why am I struggling to heal my digestive issues? The brain and the gut are connected and in constant communication. The gut has its own network of neurons in the lining of the gastrointestinal system, known as the Enteric or Intrins

Yara Grant 21/11/2024 Yara Grant 21/11/2024

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Healing what we don’t know is “wrong” (somatic approach) 🔸There are receptors inside your organs. These receptors send information about the inside of your body to your brain. 🔸This information helps to regulate vital functions, such

Yara Grant 08/11/2024 Yara Grant 08/11/2024

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Somatic healing and nervous system regulation work is not designed to make you feel calm It’s common to see somatic healing in social media portrayed as a set of formulas. “If you feel angry you do xyz to process it”. “If you feel grief

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

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A dysregulated nervous system can hijack your behaviours and emotions Contrary to popular belief, emotions happen in the body. Emotions are physiological responses expressed somatically (through the body and the nervous system). Below y

Yara Grant 27/08/2024 Yara Grant 27/08/2024

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If your nervous system is often in shutdown (feeling fatigued, unmotivated, disconnected, helpless, low in energy and mood)… It means you have used your sympathetic energy (fight/flight) to push through life for a very long time and now

Yara Grant 11/07/2024 Yara Grant 11/07/2024

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A nervous system that is in a state of functional freeze has a very low capacity to face challenges. That’s why procrastination is its modus operandi… The nervous system in freeze also has a low capacity for healing. What I mean by this

Yara Grant 10/07/2024 Yara Grant 10/07/2024

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Very important things to know about an overwhelmed nervous system A nervous system that is in a state of overwhelm can be extremely reactive. One more dose of a supplement, one more healing technique, one more expert opinion can be the

Yara Grant 04/07/2024 Yara Grant 04/07/2024

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Symptoms of unresolved trauma arise out of incomplete self protective responses, together with genetic predispositions and/or accumulation of long term stress… We are hardwired to respond to threat: 🌟The beauty of an extremely intellig

Yara Grant 03/07/2024 Yara Grant 03/07/2024

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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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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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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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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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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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It's your physiology, not your mindset… Your symptoms, including your thoughts, reflect your physiological state. If your body is dysregulated, your cognitive function won't be fully online. Plus the type of thoughts you will be having

Yara Grant 27/03/2024 Yara Grant 27/03/2024

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9 Pillars of good mental, emotional and spiritual health 1. Sleep - when the nervous system is dysregulated we can’t have restful sleep.  2. (Sun)light - This one is a MUST. But when my system was overwhelmed I was allergic to the

Yara Grant 04/02/2024 Yara Grant 04/02/2024

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