Dr. Bianca Baciu

Dr. Bianca Baciu Somatic guide, educator and pianist specializing in unique trauma and stress release modalities.

11/28/2025

💫Working with affect and accompanying sensations always brings forth memories and messages received in childhood about emotions.

They are always connected to some or all of these questions:

👉How were emotions processed within your family?

👉How were your emotions received?

👉Who couldn't tolerate your emotions?

👉Who rejected you when you showed emotion?

👉Who in your family was allowed to be angry or sad?

Building tolerance for "forbidden" emotions is a journey.

It has to do with being in charge of when and how much to feel, and with exploring and taking breaks from feeling as YOU need🤗.




👉To read about symptom resolution that clients with either PTSD or C-PTSD have found, feel free to visit my website .🩵  ...
11/26/2025

👉To read about symptom resolution that clients with either PTSD or C-PTSD have found, feel free to visit my website .🩵




11/24/2025

A huge leap🤸‍♂️! Although the mind may be willing, in somatic therapeutic models, the focus is on the body’s experience and gradually building its capacity for something more or different than before. For instance -

👉We could win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go on a trip that requires us to take a long flight, but find it unbearable to be in an airplane - confined to a small space with no way out - as a result of a previous traumatic experience.

🧠The mind may be willing to push through the fear, but the body vividly remembers the extreme discomfort of the traumatic experience and thinks it’s happening again.

No matter how we might try to convince ourselves that we’re safe, “mind over matter” doesn’t work too well when the body is out of resources💡.

If our nervous system is stuck in a threat response, no amount of thinking will get us to truly feel safe.

The missing piece?🤷🏼‍♀️

Self-Regulation. Teaching our nervous system that it can handle intensity without going into survival responses and overwhelm.

When we cultivate this capacity, we can finally bridge the gap between what our mind wants and what our body is ready to support🤗.

🤔Is your body able to support the huge leaps your mind wants to take?

🤷‍♀️Can you relate to having your experience classified, categorized or minimized by an external source?How might it fee...
11/21/2025

🤷‍♀️Can you relate to having your experience classified, categorized or minimized by an external source?

How might it feel to allow labels to dissipate and to witness our experience as it is?




👉Ming’s testimonial brings up a very important point -How does belief influence healing outcomes?🤷‍♀️🤔Does our scepticis...
11/17/2025

👉Ming’s testimonial brings up a very important point -

How does belief influence healing outcomes?🤷‍♀️

🤔Does our scepticism and apprehension negate the potential benefits of interventions that are new to us?

Not necessarily.

While one’s willingness to try something different provides a strong access point for our work together, sometimes even disbelief helps us quite a bit because there are no pre-conceived ideas, scripts, or agendas 💡.

Disbelief can also mean we’re able to appreciate the smaller steps forward because they come as such a surprise.

Instead of making a beeline towards pre-determined outcomes, we support the body’s intelligence to give us more accurate information, come online, and start taking care of business ⚡.

In my work of guiding people somatically, emphasis is placed on the body’s nuanced experience (emotional, physical, nervous-system based, spiritual, energetic, collective) with the mind as a witness 🧠. There is absolutely no agenda, and both belief and disbelief can be exceptionally supportive, because for either belief or disbelief to happen, a degree of engagement with the work has to take place.

👉This approach allows for healing even when the mind doubts the methods and modalities, or when we have no explicit memory of a traumatic experience, despite living with its effects (such as pre- and perinatal trauma, ancestral or generational trauma).

🎧The Safe & Sound Protocol involves listening to lab-treated sound under the careful supervision of a qualified practitioner. It is a mostly passive intervention targeting the vagus nerve, middle ear muscles and other social engagement systems. For this reason, it is often a welcome access point for clients who are not able to access their sensations and feelings, or verbalise traumatic experiences.

To read more about its proven effectiveness in clinical studies and to hear from more of my clients, feel free to visit my website - linked in my bio 🩵.




11/14/2025

👉Emotional release is often associated with intensity - outbursts, long held-back tears, trembling.

But release and integration can also be gentle, even quiet.

💫This allows the body to navigate the process without losing itself in it, and the mind to witness it.

It’s how we can find a strong sense of coherence.

How do you allow time and space for integration 🩵?




💡If - in its vast wisdom - nature sees the necessity for periods of expansion and contraction;🍂Fall and Spring🌄Day and n...
11/12/2025

💡If - in its vast wisdom - nature sees the necessity for periods of expansion and contraction;

🍂Fall and Spring

🌄Day and night

🐻Hibernation and migration

Can we trust that - as part of nature - we will benefit from allowing rather than resisting the same as we heal, evolve and grow?




👇Let’s talk about exploratory orienting versus defensive orienting.When we work in person, we take the space in, we enga...
11/07/2025

👇Let’s talk about exploratory orienting versus defensive orienting.

When we work in person, we take the space in, we engage and connect with the environment and others, and attention is expanded outward to take in sensory information 🔆.

👉This is exploratory orienting, and - unless there are perceived threat signals in the environment - it keeps the body at ease and the nervous system in a ventral vagal state.

💻When we work online, and spend most of the time pouring ourselves into small screens, attention narrows sharply, the body becomes tense and braced and the breath shallows.

👉This is defensive orienting. Even if we don't necessarily detect a threat signal in the environment, the body ends up behaving as if we did.

Head and eyes snap toward a stimulus.

Neck, jaw and shoulders tighten.

💡This posture ends up creating a state of hypervigilance and restlessness in the body.

It affects relationship dynamics and capacity to engage with others when we get off the screen.

It moves us into a "something might be wrong" state.

🤷‍♀️What can you do to shift from defensive to exploratory orienting?

🔹Turn your head slowly around the room.

🔹Look out the window.

🔹Gently track sensations.

🔹Be curious about your emotions in that Zoom meeting.

🔹Connect with others - try to engage beyond the work task.

If you found this post helpful, consider saving or sharing it with others who spend a lot of time on Zoom🤗.




11/05/2025

👉We have been groomed to be dependent on comfort and convenience,

The kind of courage and willingness needed to open “Pandora’s Box” on a healing journey carry unfamiliar resonance now.

We are bushwhacking on overgrown paths as we sense that what has always been there, since the dawn of humanity, is still there - our capacity 🩵.




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