When you start your healing journey of recovering from trauma, you will need to begin with self-regulation and stimulating your vagus nerve in order to support your nervous system and calm down. A first step on the way towards such practices is the creation of a safe space that you can retreat to whenever you want to practice grounding and do healing work like meditation, yoga, writing, breathwork or bodywork. I’ll show you how!
Read MoreRecently, while discussing our dinner plans, a friend of mine offered me various options and then asked me what would make me feel safe. And I realized how incredibly important this underestimated love language is. So, I wanted to dedicate today’s blog to this topic and provide you with some useful tips on how you can make a loved person feel safe as your support them on their healing journey towards the Self.
Read MoreThe world can be a triggering place and for the past two years our collective is going through a potentially deeply traumatizing time. One organ that is involved in navigating your response to the world is the polyvagal nerve (or vagus nerve). While your polyvagal nerve influences your nervous system response and in turn, your body’s response to what is happening to or around you, there is way to integrate your body in your healing work and work the opposite way around: Various bodywork techniques allow you to stimulate and influence your vagus nerve and consequently can help you calm down whenever you are triggered or experiencing episodes of anxiety and panic attacks. A brilliant, free and accessible way to do this is humming.
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