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Overthinking as a survival strategy The mind is designed to make sense of things, to fill in the gap, to create meaning.  And there is nothing inherently wrong with this.  The issue arises when there is incomplete survival res

Yara Grant 09/08/2023 Yara Grant 09/08/2023

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You have been lied to about trauma healing For decades I was told a could be healed of everything and that if I haven’t healed yet it’s because of my limiting beliefs, my mindset and my unwillingness to manifest a better life for myself.

Yara Grant 07/08/2023 Yara Grant 07/08/2023

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Survival strategies Survival strategies come in all shapes and forms.  They can be something like a full blown “unhealthy addiction” to drugs, alcohol or “healthy addictions” such as obsession with clean diet, exercising etc...&nbsp

Yara Grant 04/08/2023 Yara Grant 04/08/2023

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Breathwork, trauma integration & SE It’s a well known fact that intentional breathing can directly influence the autonomic nervous system. But we are often not taught that long breathwork sessions can lead some people to experience

Yara Grant 19/06/2023 Yara Grant 19/06/2023

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Trauma resolution has to include your body All the incomplete responses (fight/flight/freeze/shutdown) you have had in your entire life is registered and stored in your body, in the fascia, in your organs, in your muscles and cells. The

Yara Grant 05/06/2023 Yara Grant 05/06/2023

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Gut feeling & trauma You are born with your own navigation system. The famous gut feeling.  The gut also happens to be the place we often store unresolved deep emotions and traumas. When trauma hasn’t been somatically integrate

Yara Grant 24/05/2023 Yara Grant 24/05/2023

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Allostatic load, rest and healing If you are on a healing journey you may go through phases where you feel extremely and unusually tired. Needing lots of rest and sleep. When the body is in a fight/flight/freeze/shutdown state for so l

Yara Grant 15/05/2023 Yara Grant 15/05/2023

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Mindset work is overrated We humans are so used to “work” on ourselves. To create strategy, to delete limiting beliefs, to receive coaching, to participate in retreats, to practice various meditation methods and and and... But none of t

Yara Grant 07/04/2023 Yara Grant 07/04/2023

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Unprocessed traumas catch up with you We tend to brush things off. From a very young age so many of us were told by our caregivers to: “Stop crying”, “Don’t  be a wimp”, “It was nothing, there is no reason to be upset”. And these

Yara Grant 22/02/2023 Yara Grant 22/02/2023

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Why do I need support on my healing journey? One of the many good definitions of trauma is that “trauma is too much, too soon, too fast.” I would say that feeling alone and emotionally unsupported, almost always can be added to this def

Yara Grant 15/02/2023 Yara Grant 15/02/2023

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Characteristics of a felt sense of safety Trauma resolution, identity integration and nervous system regulation work have so many benefits! I sometimes have to pinch myself when I see some huge results with clients. Here is a short lis

Yara Grant 28/12/2022 Yara Grant 28/12/2022

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The real meaning of survival strategies and why we need support in trauma resolution work Aloneness and lack of support is one of the aspects of trauma. And because your whole system is built to survive you eventually figure out a way to

Yara Grant 19/10/2022 Yara Grant 19/10/2022

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Healing may seem scary or uncomfortable… ... But It is even more uncomfortable to live life reacting to triggers that feel random and unpredictable. It is painful to go through life not understanding, acknowledging and honouring our

Yara Grant 10/10/2022 Yara Grant 10/10/2022

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Understanding resistance in your trauma integration journey It’s understandable and to be expected that in your healing journey you will go through a phase, or even phases of resistance. Even when you finally find a grounded approach and

Yara Grant 08/10/2022 Yara Grant 08/10/2022

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What healing is not There is a big confusion around the word healing. That’s why I hardly use it. I prefer the word integration, as it’s more in line with what in reality happens when you embark on the deep type of “work” I offer. Ther

Yara Grant 07/09/2022 Yara Grant 07/09/2022

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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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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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How unhealed trauma affects your daily life One of the consequences of trauma is a dysregulated nervous system. Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is perfectly designed to keep you safe and alive. But it has also been discovered that th

Yara Grant 16/08/2022 Yara Grant 16/08/2022

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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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