Kerry Green, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

03/31/2024

Accepting 2 new clients. First time in over a year. DM for more info.

06/07/2023

✨✨Glimmers ✨✨

I’ve been thinking a lot about glimmers lately & how they help me regulate my own nervous system. So much of trauma-focused education spotlights triggers & teaching about activated “fight or flight” responses. In the spirit of post-traumatic growth & healing, let’s shift and talk about how we can create joy & safety, regardless of our current life experience or history of trauma.

✨Glimmers are often defined as the opposite of a trigger.
✨Glimmers provide cues to our nervous systems that our bodies are safe- activating our parasympathetic nervous systems.
✨Glimmers can be identified by reflecting on moments we have felt connected, safe, peaceful or cared for.
✨Glimmers are described by some as a “warm & fuzzy” feeling in the body.

🤍Here are a few of my glimmers. 🤍
✨The sound a campfire makes.
✨ Looking at the stars.
✨ The first measure of one of my favorite songs (ATM Taylor Swift 😂)
✨ Receiving a hand written card.
✨ An unexpected hug from someone I care about.
✨ Cutting fresh flowers.
✨ My kids showing me something they created.
✨ Watching the wind move the leaves and branches on a tree.
✨The smell of dryer sheets (weird, right?)
✨ Locking eyes with deer.

And a quote I love by Deb Dana “well-being is not simply the absence of problems, but the presence of strengths.”

What are the glimmers in your life?

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