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SPMI Video Introduction Videoatiratan2022-07-04T14:27:12+00:00
One of the most important things trauma research h One of the most important things trauma research has shown us is that the nervous system is not simply “broken” after trauma. It adapts. 🌿 The nervous system is constantly learning through experience, repetition, and relationship. What we repeatedly experience begins shaping the body’s expectations of the world, of other people, and of ourselves. Through neuroplasticity, these experiences influence neural pathways, stress responses, attachment patterns, emotional regulation, and even our baseline sense of safety. The body may continue anticipating threat long after the original circumstances have changed because survival patterns were built through repetition over time. Research in attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and Polyvagal Theory continues to show us that nervous systems reorganise through repeated experiences of safety, co-regulation, attunement, connection, and embodied regulation. Healing happens when the nervous system encounters enough consistent experiences that slowly challenge old survival expectations and allow the body to update itself. ✨ Sustainable transformation usually happens through repeated moments where the body slowly learns: “I do not have to survive in the same way anymore.” 🤍 Some gentle reflection questions 🌱 🌀 What survival responses do I judge within myself that may once have protected me? 🌀 Where in my life does my body still respond as though danger is present even when my mind understands I am safe? 🌀 What experiences genuinely help my nervous system soften into safety and connection? #SomaticHealing #TraumaInformedCare #NervousSystemHealing #PsychedelicIntegration #PolyvagalTheory
One of the things I sometimes notice in healing sp One of the things I sometimes notice in healing spaces is the subtle pathologizing of very human survival responses. 🤍 Dissociation gets renamed as “higher consciousness.” Freeze becomes “stillness.” Disconnection becomes “detachment.” Hyper-independence becomes “spiritual sovereignty.” People bypass grief with positivity. Bypass anger with forgiveness. Bypass fear with spiritual language. And underneath it all, the nervous system may still be carrying enormous activation. Survival responses are INTELLIGENT adaptations from the nervous system designed to help us survive overwhelming experiences. Healing often begins when we can finally turn toward them with enough safety and attunement 🤍 Not asking: “How do I rise above this?” But instead: “What is this survival response trying to protect?” 🤍 And honestly, I believe some of the deepest healing happens not when we escape the body… 🌿 If you’re curious about working more safely with trauma, the nervous system, and psychedelic experiences, comment GUIDE for my free Somatic Psychedelic Guide & resources ✨ #TraumaInformedCare #SomaticHealing #PsychedelicIntegration #NervousSystemHealing #SpiritualBypassing
Sometimes healing happens in very small moments 🌿 Sometimes healing happens in very small moments 🌿 a softer tone, slowing the pace, helping someone orient to the room, restoring agency and choice, staying present instead of trying to fix or force. Many nervous systems do not heal through force. Sometimes what allows healing to happen is not another interpretation or technique. It is the feeling that someone is truly with us. Calm enough to stay present. Soft enough to listen. Grounded enough to not abandon us when things become vulnerable, messy, tender, or overwhelming. I think we often underestimate how deeply relational healing truly is 🤍 Some of the most powerful moments I have witnessed in this work were moments where someone finally felt: “I do not have to go through this alone.” ✨ 🌿 Comment GUIDE to receive my free Somatic Psychedelic Guide and learn the six foundations of trauma-informed psychedelic practice.
Get the FREE Somatic Psychedelic Guide. 🌿 Most pe Get the FREE Somatic Psychedelic Guide. 🌿 Most people are taught how to prepare for a psychedelic experience. Far fewer are taught how to work with what happens in the body when trauma, activation, emotion, or insight begins to emerge. Inside you’ll discover: ✓ The 6 Core Pillars of Ethical, Embodied Psychedelic Practice ✓ Why nervous system literacy matters in preparation, ceremony & integration ✓ A trauma-informed approach to safer, more grounded psychedelic work ✓ How to cultivate greater clarity, attunement & therapeutic presence Receive✨✨: ✓ A Trauma-Informed PDF ✓ A 60-minute workshop ✓ A guided somatic meditation Because lasting transformation isn’t just about what is revealed in a psychedelic experience—it’s about the body’s capacity to integrate it. Curious? Comment GUIDE below and we’ll send it to you. #PsychedelicTherapy #SomaticHealing #TraumaInformedCare #PsychedelicIntegration #EmbodiedHealing
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