
15/08/2025
The way you learned to survive still lives in your body.
- Lying awake at night with looping thoughts
- Waking from nightmares you can’t explain
- Snapping at people you love, then feeling ashamed
- Struggling to make decisions because you feel stuck or foggy
- Feeling like no matter how much you rest, you're still tense or wired
These symptoms aren’t random. They’re the result of your brain and nervous system doing their best to keep you safe long after a threat has passed.
Maybe you learned to stay small to keep the peace.
To control everything so nothing could fall apart.
To be the strong one, the calm one, the one who holds it all together.
These were strategies that developed, and they helped back then, but now, they’re heavy. And they might be keeping you from the clarity, connection, and calm you’re really needing.
This is the work I support people with in Eye Movement Integration Therapy (EMIT) - untangling those old protective patterns, processing what’s still held in the body, and finding steadiness again so you can move forward without the past lingering.
You don’t have to live in survival mode forever, change is possible. Please reach out if you are struggling and need support.
S.W.