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3 ways to connect with your emotions using somatics We have been told so many times over the years to sit with our emotions. But how can we do it in a “productive” way? Here is a simple exploration for you to try. When you notice an

Yara Grant 18/10/2022 Yara Grant 18/10/2022

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Why am I not seeing results when I have tried so hard to heal? You can have great self awareness and still struggle to put things into practice if your body is not on board with your mind. You can know all your unhealthy patterns, noti

Yara Grant 13/10/2022 Yara Grant 13/10/2022

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The spiritual side of trauma work In spiritual communities and churches we often hear that the body is not important. The soul and spirit is what matters. In medical and clinical settings the soul is often forgotten and our symptoms ar

Yara Grant 12/10/2022 Yara Grant 12/10/2022

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Why certain aspects of somatic healing makes me feel I’m ignoring my pain and my problems? One of the key aspects in resolving stress and trauma is to “teach” you and your body to feel safe. It’s like the body has forgotten how feeling g

Yara Grant 11/10/2022 Yara Grant 11/10/2022

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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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Getting back into your body Every single time you speak about something that is upsetting your nervous system gets activated. But because we, humans, are so stuck in our heads and so out of touch with our bodies we barely notice when t

Yara Grant 05/10/2022 Yara Grant 05/10/2022

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Why good experiences can feel scary? Intimacy, joy, connection, vulnerability, being seeing and all good experiences come with a lot of somatic charge. They feel too expansive for a nervous system that has been in self-protection and con

Yara Grant 04/10/2022 Yara Grant 04/10/2022

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You can’t rationalise the experience of feeling unsafe Neuroception is one of the principles of Polyvagal theory. This simply means that the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) detects threat without our conscious awareness. It responds to

Yara Grant 03/10/2022 Yara Grant 03/10/2022

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The deeper meaning behind people pleasing People pleasing, also known as fawn, is a clever and sophisticated trauma response. When we grow up in an environment that feels unsafe, with caregivers who are emotionally unavailable and unpr

Yara Grant 29/09/2022 Yara Grant 29/09/2022

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Money, success and healing I often see in the world of social media healing methods being sold on the basis of receiving more money. Law of attraction and so many teachings seem to see money as this magical thing that healing trauma wi

Yara Grant 28/09/2022 Yara Grant 28/09/2022

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Living in your head can feel safer than living in your body So many of us feel much more comfortable using mental activity to go through the motions of life. Not realising that we are disconnecting from the body. This is a very common su

Yara Grant 27/09/2022 Yara Grant 27/09/2022

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Acceptance of who you are and where you are at in your healing journey I spent decades trying to be someone else. The truth is that I was just running away from pain. When we experience pain and danger in early life our window of tolera

Yara Grant 26/09/2022 Yara Grant 26/09/2022

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Trauma healing work has to be gentle and titrated Your body is designed perfectly. It automatically activates to fight or flight mode when it perceives a threat. When these two responses are not appropriate nor possible for the situati

Yara Grant 24/09/2022 Yara Grant 24/09/2022

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Somatic healing and the rhythm of life Many people ask me for specific details of what I do in my somatic sessions. I realise that there is only so much I can convey in words. Then clients start sessions and tell me that they realise the

Yara Grant 23/09/2022 Yara Grant 23/09/2022

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Talking can also bring regulation to your nervous system There is an erroneous assumption that somatic work does not include talking and that’s it’s purely bottom up. It’s true that we focus on sensations in the body and that we can ac

Yara Grant 22/09/2022 Yara Grant 22/09/2022

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A simple Polyvagal exercise A simple Polyvagal exercise According to Polyvagal theory the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is constantly looking for cues of safety, danger and life threat. This is called Neuroception. Neuroception foll

Yara Grant 20/09/2022 Yara Grant 20/09/2022

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How to rebuild safety when I feel unsafe with others? Co-regulation is a prerequisite for self-regulation. Babies are not born with the ability to self-regulate. Developmentally we first need the help of a safe caregiver to co-regulate w

Yara Grant 17/09/2022 Yara Grant 17/09/2022

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Two essential realisations on the trauma healing journey 🌿Watch out for the habit of “self diagnosing”: Endlessly thinking and talking about diagnoses. Attachment styles, nervous system states, chronic health symptoms... It’s definitel

Yara Grant 15/09/2022 Yara Grant 15/09/2022

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Trauma resolution through feeling the body Before I “worked” on my traumas, with methods that were actually helpful, I was very much stuck in my head. Looking for healing methods that were at its best a distraction and at its worst damag

Yara Grant 14/09/2022 Yara Grant 14/09/2022

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