Soul Somatic Awakening

05/09/2025

When we say trauma is stored in the body, we mean your nervous system learned protective patterns—tight shoulders, shallow breath, hyper-vigilance, shutdown that can keep firing after the danger is over.

The amygdala (threat detector) stays jumpy, the prefrontal cortex (wise planner) goes dim when you’re triggered, and your autonomic nervous system flips between fight/flight or freeze. Processing isn’t deleting a memory; it’s updating your brain-body connection so your system learns: I’m safe enough now. I have choices.

You’ve heard “the body keeps the score.” But how do you actually help your body change the score? These seven practical steps to process trauma that’s living in your nervous system without re-traumatizing yourself.

This isn’t a quick fix. It’s a practice. Think reps at the gym for your healing.

04/09/2025

it's strange how quickly life can change. one day you feel sure of where you belong and the next you're pulled away from it all. it hurts and feels so unfair but what feels like a loss now might be a new beginning. sometimes being uprooted is the very thing that allows you to bloom in places you never thought you could grow🌱🌿🪴✨

23/08/2025

With Somatic therapy, we work with the protector parts before clearing stuck trauma within that inner child. Integrating yourself piece by piece. A client described it as joining all the jigsaw pieces together bit by bit to create the whole picture that is you.

22/08/2025

17/08/2025

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25/07/2025

Your nervous system always communicates through sensations, emotions, and energy levels. But most of us have been conditioned to ignore or override these signals in favour of external expectations.

We push through fatigue because society values productivity over rest. We stay in draining situations because selflessness is prized more than self-preservation. We dismiss our body’s stress responses, believing discomfort is just something to power through rather than understand.

But your nervous system isn’t trying to make you weak or difficult; it’s trying to protect you and guide you toward what nourishes you and away from what depletes you.

The body remembers every time you didn’t speak up when you needed to, every boundary that was crossed without consequence, every moment you prioritized someone else’s comfort over your own safety. These memories don’t just linger in your thoughts, but in your muscles, breath, sleep cycles, and digestion.

In response to chronic stress, your nervous system becomes hypervigilant: constantly scanning for danger, bracing for the next impact, unable to fully relax. This isn’t paranoia. It’s your body adapting to environments where your needs weren’t safe to express or where your truth wasn’t welcomed.

But here’s the nuance. Not every signal from your nervous system is about the present. Some reactions are echoes of past pain. Trauma responses rooted in situations long gone but emotionally unresolved. Learning the difference between a legitimate red flag and an old alarm is part of healing.

Trauma says, “You’re not safe anywhere.” Intuition says, “This specific thing doesn’t feel right.” Trauma creates urgency and confusion. Intuition speaks calmly, even when it’s warning you.

The healing journey involves becoming a compassionate witness to your inner world rather than a harsh judge. You begin to ask: Is this fear coming from the present or the past? Is my body alerting me to a real imbalance or reacting to an old story?

With self-awareness and gentleness, you learn to honour exhaustion instead of overriding it, to pay attention to that tight chest or sinking gut as possible wisdom, not inconvenience.