by @team-king | Sep 12, 2024 | Healing, Body-centred, Burnout, Chronic Pain, Depression, Digestive disorders, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Regulation, Trauma
Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery When your survival brain interprets your experience as too much; when you can’t communicate or take action, this is known as the freeze state. Your survival responses (fight/flight/freeze)...
by @team-king | Aug 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Breathwork, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self Compassion, Self-Care, 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...
by @team-king | Jul 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Burnout, Chronic Pain, Compassion, Depression, Digestive disorders, Healing, Nervous System, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self-Care, Somatic Therapy, Stress, Stress Relief, Therapy, Vagus, Vagus Nerve
If you regularly struggle with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, there may be an underlying issue from your past that’s causing it. Trauma may be impacting you more than you realise. What is Trauma? Trauma has been described as a highly activated, incomplete...
by @team-king | Jun 12, 2024 | Therapy, Anxiety, Embodiment, Healing, Polyvagal, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Stress Relief, Trauma, Vagus Nerve
Trauma is any distressing event where we feel overwhelmed, powerless or helpless and do not fully use up or reset our 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, Depression, Healing, Polyvagal, Somatic, Stress, Therapy, Vagus Nerve
Trauma and Childbirth – How does It Affect Your Nervous system? 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...
by @team-king | Mar 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Breathwork, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self-Care, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Therapy, Vagus Nerve
Body-centered therapy can help you reconnect with your body and emotions, offering a pathway to regain balance and restore a sense of well-being. Following periods of high stress or trauma, your nervous system goes into overdrive, which can prevent you from being in...
by @team-king | Feb 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Breathwork, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Regulation, Self-Care, Somatic, Stress, Stress Relief, Therapy, Vagus Nerve
It’s all about the nervous system. Our nervous system is designed to help us survive and keep us alive. That is its whole purpose. It has certain built in mechanisms to respond to danger and it triggers the release of...
by @team-king | Jan 12, 2024 | Trauma, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Compassion, Depression, Dysregulation, Healing, Nervous System, Psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Self Compassion, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress, Stress Relief, Therapy, Wellbeing
Medical trauma can have lasting effects on the body and mind. Many years ago, before training to be a Psychotherapist, I worked as a Medical Secretary supporting various Consultants around the world and as a Fitness Professional helping people to rehab and recover...
by @team-king | Nov 12, 2023 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Healing, Self-Care, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Stress Relief, Therapy, Vagus Nerve, Wellbeing
The psoas is a very important yet often unknown muscle that plays a vital role in your physical health and mental wellbeing. The cumulative effect of neglecting this muscle is physical and mental stress and tension, which manifests itself mentally as anxiety and...
by @team-king | Oct 12, 2023 | Trauma, Anxiety, Body-centred, Breathwork, Burnout, Depression, Dysregulation, Embodiment, Healing, Nervous System, Polyvagal, Psychotherapist, Regulation, Self-Care, Sensorimotor, Somatic, Somatic Therapy, Stress, Stress Relief, Therapy, Vagus Nerve, Wellbeing
Trauma is physiological. It is a highly activated incomplete biological response (fight, flight, freeze). Anxiety signals that your nervous system is lacking safety and we constrict. This impacts our nervous system, muscles and tissues. Constriction in the body...
