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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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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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5 reasons why processing trauma through talking doesn't yield desired results 🔸The memory lives in the tissues, organs, muscle, fascia, bones, nervous system and cells. 🔸Even though cognitive ways to address trauma can produce insight

Yara Grant 01/07/2024 Yara Grant 01/07/2024

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Three necessary, first steps to “release” trauma 🔹 #1 Creating a felt sense of safety Without a felt sense of safety it’s impossible to integrate trauma, because the protective layers and defensive accommodations won’t allow the i

Yara Grant 26/06/2024 Yara Grant 26/06/2024

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Trauma is not simply a psychological phenomenon It’s true that the mind makes a story about it, as it tries to put things into a framework, so that you can find ways to move forward with life, but there is so much more to it. Making mea

Yara Grant 20/06/2024 Yara Grant 20/06/2024

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We fear and avoid deep healing work because we imagine it to be too painful Acknowledgment of trauma is the first step to long lasting positive change. Many of us are running around trying to make our lives work. We sign up for courses

Yara Grant 10/06/2024 Yara Grant 10/06/2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trauma healing and nervous system regulation work have become extremely popular in the last few years… But what most nervous system "gurus" fail to understand is that regulation cannot be taught. It's not about how much breathwork, soma

Yara Grant 26/03/2024 Yara Grant 26/03/2024

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During your trauma healing journey: • You may have doubts about why you even entered this journey in the first place. • At times, you may feel, that you are getting worse instead of better. • Old triggers may resurface for a while. •

Yara Grant 25/03/2024 Yara Grant 25/03/2024

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