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Somatic healing work is not only bottom up Somatics is the new kid on the block, the darling of Instagram Reels and we often see talk therapy portrayed as old fashioned ineffective. In your healing journey you are likely to need both a

Yara Grant 01/09/2022 Yara Grant 01/09/2022

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An overwhelmed nervous system needs less stimulation If you are looking to heal chronic stress and trauma, piling up more techniques and more solution focused methods will overwhelm you even more. There is nothing wrong with solution f

Yara Grant 29/08/2022 Yara Grant 29/08/2022

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Deep inner healing work can only be reached when the nervous system has the capacity to dive deeper… ... And this can only happen when your body is starting to feel safe + you have built enough resources. Otherwise the system will self

Yara Grant 24/08/2022 Yara Grant 24/08/2022

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Why do I find it hard to feel and to describe sensations in my body? Many people when starting somatic healing work find it difficult to get in touch with emotions within their bodies. Somatic work is a new language altogether. It invi

Yara Grant 23/08/2022 Yara Grant 23/08/2022

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Can I heal trauma even when I have no clear memories of what happened? Yes. You can heal trauma without having clear memories or no memory at all. You may not remember, but your body has stored everything that has happened. Triggers AR

Yara Grant 22/08/2022 Yara Grant 22/08/2022

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Functional freeze and regulation Many people with a history of developmental trauma may look calm and collected. This is because they are very used to living in a state of functional freeze, and almost too close to shutdown. Dissociation

Yara Grant 19/08/2022 Yara Grant 19/08/2022

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Somatic healing Self protection is a healthy and brilliant mechanism. It’s inbuilt to keep you alive. When your nervous system detects threat it will choose to fight/flight/freeze/fawn/shutdown, then when the threat is gone it goes bac

Yara Grant 18/08/2022 Yara Grant 18/08/2022

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Healing is not so much about not having problems anymore or not getting triggered, although you will get triggered less… With healing your nervous system is more able to self regulate and you will notice that you can get busy, stressed a

Yara Grant 17/08/2022 Yara Grant 17/08/2022

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Letting go & healing As we heal we go through many phases of grief and painful realisations. We can even sometimes get stuck in some of these phases, trying to hold onto to the pain of being wronged. The powerful work start to happ

Yara Grant 14/08/2022 Yara Grant 14/08/2022

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Thawed tears In our healing journey we will encounter periods of deep sadness and grief. During these times we may feel we are going backwards. Or even wonder: “why am I “doing” all this healing for if I just end up hurting and feeling

Yara Grant 04/08/2022 Yara Grant 04/08/2022

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Cultivating delight in your life As children we relied on our parents for cues of how to act and react to people and life’s circumstances. In the first few years of our lives we also relied on our primary caregivers to regulate our nervo

Yara Grant 04/08/2022 Yara Grant 04/08/2022

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Why embodied practise is so important when healing trauma? You may have noticed that I speak often on my posts, stories and Q&As about creating a list of resources to use throughout your day when in hyperarousal states (anxiety, stre

Yara Grant 02/08/2022 Yara Grant 02/08/2022

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You can only integrate what your nervous system can regulate I have done many forms of therapy, energy healing and mindset work, but it was only when I started the somatic healing work that things truly shifted for me. You can only hea

Yara Grant 01/08/2022 Yara Grant 01/08/2022

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The fallacy of doing personal development work without somatics I recall being very skeptical when I first started my healing journey with somatics. I thought it was too simple, too slow and even too boring. I was in such a high state

Yara Grant 28/07/2022 Yara Grant 28/07/2022

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Information alone doesn’t heal your nervous system Trauma healing has become mainstream! Something I thought I would never see happen. It’s indeed wonderful that we now have so many books on this subject and so much useful information

Yara Grant 27/07/2022 Yara Grant 27/07/2022

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Lack of boundaries, repairing and relearning When there is trauma, there is rupture of boundaries. Lack of boundaries often start early in life, from family conditioning and childhood trauma. A child who grows up in an unpredictable e

Yara Grant 27/07/2022 Yara Grant 27/07/2022

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Listening to your body In somatic healing is extremely important to cultivate, what I call: “Somatic Ears” = cultivating our abilities to listen to the body, responding to its needs. Honouring your body’s needs can be difficult at ti

Yara Grant 22/07/2022 Yara Grant 22/07/2022

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You can be sad and still be regulated. You can be angry and still be regulated. These are not mutually exclusive. There are situations in life that require healthy anger, Dr Peter Levine coined the term healthy aggression to explain this

Yara Grant 21/07/2022 Yara Grant 21/07/2022

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Sitting with your feelings is not the answer In my own healing journey I have come across and practiced many philosophies and methods that required to sit with my emotions, noticing them mindfully, honouring them at all costs. After year

Yara Grant 18/07/2022 Yara Grant 18/07/2022

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A few signs of having more capacity in your system In the somatic healing circles there is much talk about building capacity. You may hear the words resilience, interchangeably, to explain the same phenomenon. Building capacity is one

Yara Grant 17/07/2022 Yara Grant 17/07/2022

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