by @team-king | Feb 12, 2025 | Anxiety, Body-centred, Confidence, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self Compassion, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Somatic, Somatic Therapy, Stress, Stress Relief, Therapy, Trauma, Vagus, Vagus Nerve
Do you flinch when your partner reaches out to touch you or hug you? Maybe you’ve lost all interest in physical affection. This is not uncommon if you’ve experienced trauma. You may have noticed that touch – something that is meant to feel...
by @team-king | Jan 12, 2025 | Anxiety, Body-centred, Burnout, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Somatic, Stress Relief, Therapy, Trauma, Wellbeing
Traumatic events can change how your brain works, leaving you feeling broken and disconnected as though your mind and body are no longer in sync. How can you tell when this is happening to you? Have you ever had a traumatic experience, but when you talk about it, it...
by @team-king | Sep 12, 2024 | Healing, Body-centred, Burnout, Chronic Pain, Depression, Digestive disorders, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Regulation, Trauma
Have you ever had a distressing experience and afterwards felt so frustrated or angry with yourself for not speaking up or taking action? Or maybe in conflict situations you tend to go quiet and shutdown. I want to reassure you that it’s not your fault. When...
by @team-king | Aug 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Breathwork, Burnout, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Proprioception, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self Compassion, Self-Care, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Somatic Therapy, Stress Relief, Therapy, Vagus, Vagus Nerve
You are feeling stressed and anxious so you try to “do the right thing” and go to a Yoga class or do Mindfulness meditation, but it just seems to make you feel worse and more anxious. If you’ve had this experience, please know there is nothing wrong with you. It just...
by @team-king | Jun 12, 2024 | Therapy, Anxiety, Body-centred, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Proprioception, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self-Care, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Somatic Therapy, Stress Relief, Trauma, Vagus Nerve
Trauma is any distressing event where you feel overwhelmed, powerless or helpless and do not fully use up or reset your instinctive fight, flight, or freeze response. It can happen to anyone. When a human experiences distress such as injury, loss, continually pushing...
by @team-king | Apr 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Burnout, Chronic Pain, Compassion, Confidence, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Regulation, Self Compassion, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Somatic, Somatic Therapy, Stress, Therapy, Vagus Nerve, Wellbeing
As a Polyvagal Psychotherapist, I have supported a lot of women with trauma relating to childbirth. It can go unrecognised because there is the societal belief that giving birth is “natural” and that “women are designed to have babies”, etc. Often this is not the case...
