Jo's Somatic Trauma Informed Life Coaching

23/08/2025

#𝟱𝟰𝟯𝟮𝟭 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗨𝗽𝘀

𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀
Time Out – with a friend. I wonder, do you have friends who you promise to meet up with but time and busy lives gets in your way? I have several friends, who we meet up periodically and say we won’t leave it as long to the next time. We finally got a date in the diary for today, nothing decided until yesterday evening as to what time or where we were going, however we did it lunch in a garden centre, catching up!!! Self care as well!!

𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗹𝗲
Working with clients who have experienced trauma throughout their life and when they have break throughs in their understanding and feelings can be emotional for them. As a practitioner, I had sensations in my body and also my Imposter Part showed up for me, questioning my worth as a Domestic Abuse Advocate and Somatic Trauma Informed Life Coach, however from a text message the next day, they had done a lot of processing and were going to be doing that over the time until we speak again. I have reflected more about my triggers and where they come from. At the start of our discussion, they had advised that they had understood more about themselves than they had previously, it is about them learning to pendulate and titrate in a safe space with no judgement and to be heard is so so important. It is what is behind the behaviour that really intrigues me.

𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲
Leaving a paper tissue in a pocket of a pair of dark trousers and them going through the wash and the tissue disintegrating over all the washing in the machine! Check pockets!!!!

𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Taking action to book in with other friends to meet and catch up. I also have a couple of party’s over the next few weeks, which will take me out of my comfort zone a little but we are going to put our big girl pants on!

𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻
Wanting to fix other people’s problems, I have “a can do attitude” and fawn response and this week I have had to sit on my hands and not jump in to fix and allow people who are close to me to be able to process what is happening for them and to know that we are there and do care.

21/08/2025

🔥 Reacting vs. 🌿 Responding

When trauma lives in the body, our nervous system often takes over before our mind has a chance to catch up.

Reacting looks like:
* Snapping in anger when you feel unheard
* Shutting down or going numb in conflict
* Saying “yes” when every part of you wanted to say “no”
These are survival patterns, not personal failures. They’re your body’s way of protecting you.

Responding looks like:
* Taking a breath and noticing the tightness in your chest
* Grounding in your body before speaking
* Choosing your words and actions from a place of safety, not survival

💡 Somatic trauma-informed coaching helps you:
* Slow down your nervous system
* Create space between trigger and choice
* Build safety in the body so you can respond instead of react

✨ Your power isn’t in never being triggered, it’s in reclaiming choice.

20/08/2025

✨ When your body whispers, it’s telling the truth your mind learned to silence. ✨

Unmet needs don’t just live in your head, they live in your nervous system:
🔥 Tight chest when you want to speak up
🔥 Knots in your stomach when you set a boundary
🔥 Numbness when you long for connection but fear rejection

These aren’t flaws. They’re signals. They’re your body saying:
➡️ “I needed safety.”
➡️ “I needed to be seen.”
➡️ “I needed love without conditions.”

💡 In somatic trauma-informed coaching, we don’t “fix” you, we listen to you and help you to listen to your body. We help your body feel safe enough to finally receive what it’s been asking for all along.

🌿 Ready to stop overriding your body’s truth and start meeting your needs with compassion? Let’s do this together.

👉Email me “NEEDS” and I’ll share how we can begin. To josomaticlifecoaching@gmail.com

19/08/2025

“𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁’𝘀 𝗩𝗔𝗪𝗚 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀?”

That's the question from survivor Poppy Eyre, abused from age 4 and cuts deep. Sky News revealed the draft Violence Against Women & Girls strategy excludes child sexual exploitation. This isn’t just a policy gap. It’s a betrayal.

Half a million children are sexually abused each year in England & Wales.

Those children grow into adults who carry the trauma into their teens, 20s, 40s, 60s and beyond. For many, the ripple effects shape education, relationships, health, and trust in systems that should protect them.

When abuse isn’t recognised as violence, survivors are left unseen. When strategy excludes children, it also abandons the adults they become.

Trauma-informed truth's
👉 When a child discloses, they must be believed and supported.
👉 When an adult finally finds the words for what happened decades ago, they deserve the same compassion and recognition.
👉 Abuse doesn’t vanish with age, its impacts echo across a lifetime.

Policies must reflect that reality:
✅ Inclusion of children in VAWG frameworks
✅ Services that recognise the long shadow of childhood abuse and disclosures throughout life
✅ Visibility and funding for survivors at every stage of life

Because violence against children is violence against women and girls. Ignoring it doesn’t erase the trauma, it just deepens the silence.




https://news.sky.com/story/child-sexual-exploitation-victims-not-in-scope-of-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy-13411617

17/08/2025

Having just had the last week off from the day job and staying at home. We have had some days out and around the local area, meeting up with relatives and bumping into people who you have come across from activities you have participated in quite a while ago and then see them somewhere completely out of context; that's the synchonisity of life!! We have been grateful that we have had lovely weather to be able to get out and about, however as it has been a tad too warm, it's been really good to stop and rest, which is what this week has been about and having some time for self care.

Today, I have re-set my office space, arranged my laptops and monitors so that they are the right height, hoovered and washed the floors. Just need to sage it and also my new crystals.

If you are a business and or are employed, please can you share and tag me in the link. This is my website as Brand Partner of The Mental Wellbeing Company - https://jojacklin.thementalwellbeingcompany.com/

As unaddressed trauma in your workplace can manifest as many things such absenteeism, conflict and burnout, which can hinder both individual and organisational success. By embracing a trauma-informed approach, organisations like yours can create a sanctuary of psychological safety where employees can show up authentically, without fear or shame, able to contribute their full potential.

16/08/2025

Thank You The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes) for sharing such important details regarding domestic abuse and the court system. There is also a lot of work needed in raising more awareness of coercive and controlling behaviours, especially with the more mature generation, as there is the belief that it isn't domestic abuse unless it is physical. Emotional, psychological and coercive and controlling behaviours as standalone incidents may seem insignificant (grain of sand), however over time they can build up gradually into a sandcastle. It also doesn't just have to be an intimate partner, it can also be adult children, grandchildren.

Imagine going back to the early 1970's, women needed a guarantor to open a bank account or to have a mortgage.

What we experience as children between 0-2, if you didn't receive nurturing, you will have learnt how to keep yourself as small as possible, so that you were safe and this can affect how we show up as adult's now. You are worth investing in yourself!!

Please bang the drum in also raising this awareness with your members over the UK, there are organisations who can help support
We Are Hourglass
National Domestic Violence Hotline
NIDAS Norfolk
https://jojacklin.thementalwellbeingcompany.com/

The Criminal Justice System is failing victims of domestic abuse. Please take a few minutes to hear from survivors themselves on how they are being criminalised or silenced by watching these videos produced by the Centre for Women’s Justice.

Main trailer: https://vimeo.com/1057824185/6df1a02407?share=copy
Megan: https://vimeo.com/1104533412/5338cd22f7?share=copy
Lu: https://vimeo.com/1104534514/8f9b2a340b?share=copy

We’re backing three vital amendments to the Victims and Courts Bill that would help resolve some of these shocking injustices. Check out our blog post and find out how you can help - https://www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre/blog/blog-listing/2025/the-victims-and-courts-bill-how-you-can-help-survivors

15/08/2025

54321 reflections in the Show and Tell for Adults with Carrie Bower and Nicola Sharps-Jeff

5 – Success
This week, I’ve launched as a Brand Partner with The Mental Wellbeing Company and how this has affected my nervous system safety, emotional resilience, and deeper connection as this is what is mean by “Doing what it says on the Tin”! being real and authentic. I did get to see a few shooting stars and quite a few satellites in the night sky, little squeals of excitement when I saw a shooting star.

4 – Hurdle
On leave this week, visiting a local beache in Norfolk, I sat watching children play in the mud/sand observing how messy, joyful, and completely in the moment they were. It struck me how different this was from how I’d been feeling with launching as a Brand Partner: tense, overthinking, and afraid to get “messy” with new ideas and not being mindful of being in the moment and grateful for the small glimmers.

3 – Mistake
Realising that we do need to stop and listen to our bodies as they hold a lot of information. Until you stop you don’t realise how much you try to power through and “just get it done” ignoring both my body’s signals of stress and opportunities to be present with family members.

2 – Action
I have slowed down, work phone and laptop have been shut off. I have been catching up with family members that I don’t get the chance to catch up with due to busy lives and distances, it was really lovely to make the effort to see them. I am also making a more conscious effort to meet and catch up with friends over the next few weeks, time passes by so quickly and it will soon be the dreaded C word, I hate all of the hype. I have also invested in some Healing Tuning Forks, so will be experimenting with those over the coming days, as I really do get the benefit from attending Gong and Sound Baths.

1 - Lesson
Launching as a Brand Partner with Company isn’t just a business milestone, it’s a somatic and relational journey. It’s been finding my way of working with my body’s pace and doing it in a way that work’s for me, nurturing and building relationships, bringing joy into the process, to enable me to trust and go with the flow.

13/08/2025

I thought I would introduce myself a little bit more and I also have a favour to ask you all.

I am an accomplished and compassionate Certified Somatic Trauma Informed Life Coach through ICF with extensive experience supporting and empowering individuals affected by trauma using a non-judgemental, person-centred, holistic approach. Skilled in accurately assessing client needs, facilitating somatic and trauma informed interventions, and guiding clients towards emotional regulation, resilience, and personal growth. Adept at working within professional frameworks while fostering a safe, non-judgemental environment for healing and transformation.

I am passionate for helping clients reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their self-empowerment, and create meaningful, lasting change.

Your call to action - please share this post with your contacts as I am pleased to announce that I am a Brand Partner with

13/08/2025

I thought I would introduce myself a little bit more and I also have a favour to ask you all.

I am an accomplished and compassionate Somatic Trauma Informed Life Coach with extensive experience supporting and empowering individuals affected by trauma using a non-judgemental, person-centred, holistic approach. Skilled in accurately assessing client needs, facilitating somatic and trauma informed interventions, and guiding clients towards emotional regulation, resilience, and personal growth. Adept at working within professional frameworks while fostering a safe, non-judgemental environment for healing and transformation.

I am passionate for helping clients reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their self-empowerment, and create meaningful, lasting change.

Your call to action - please share this post with your contacts as I am pleased to announce that I am a Brand Partner with as this post includes access to my website
𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: https://jojacklin.thementalwellbeingcompany.com/
𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹: josomaticlifecoaching@gmail.com