Anchoring Hope Counseling, LLC

11/14/2025

🥰 Be on your own side! 🥰 "I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side." ~ Maya Angelou

11/14/2025

Holiday grief is another layer. We are here to support you 🫶🏼🫶🏼

10/29/2025

The autonomic nervous system ladder is adapted from the wonderful Deb Dana’s work.

She highlights our nervous system has three key states:

🔆SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT (PARASYMPATHETIC/ VENTRAL VAGAL)

🔆FIGHT OR FLIGHT (MOBILISATION/ SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM)

🔆SHUTDOWN (IMMOBILISATION/ DORSAL VAGAL)

With this ladder, it can help us to get to know our different nervous system states & with knowing these triggers, we can better regulate ourselves.

So for example, we might use the ladder, to notice when we have dropped from ventral vagal, where we feel safe & connected, down to the bottom of the ladder, or as some say - down the dorsal drain, to a place where we feel shut down and disconnected.

We can begin to do things to help bring us back to ventral vagal. Some tips could be:

✨Keeping a trigger log of the times you drop down into mobilized/ immobilised.
✨Get to know what your body does in these times - for example, does your heart race in certain situations or you become all tense?
✨Meet yourself with compassion, your body is adapting to keep you safe!
✨How can you regulate/ or Coregulate - what resources are helpful to you? It can be helpful to have these written down as reminders too.

i teach these skills in my FREE live webinar From Survival to Safety which will teach you all about where you are just now on the ladder and what to do about it

Just say REGULATE & I’ll whizz it your way ❤️
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10/29/2025

“time is a healer.”

When we experience trauma it leaves a physiological imprint. Which means the memories are timeless & the fragments of memories loop over & over.

Yes over time we can heal but untouched trauma can fester like an invisible wound.

the reality of C/PTSD, is that trauma memories remain unprocessed, causing many disturbing symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance & high anxiety. Yes the trauma is in the past but the symptoms remain live in our system. Any time we are reminded of the event, our body responds just as it did at the time when we were hurt. It makes sense we would try to escape this pain but the problem is when we use avoidance, we actually increase the trauma symptoms. When we suppress thoughts & feelings they are actually twice as likely to recur, increasing our distress.

And this can really wreak havoc with our nervous system: as it stays stuck in on ON!

Part of healing is developing resources to build our nervous systems capacity, to be with our emotions & find our flow. Moving out of survival mode.

I teach you some KEY skills to nurture your nervous system in my FREE 33 min webinar, just say REGULATE & I’ll send you it
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10/03/2025

09/28/2025

This looks about right

09/27/2025

🌷 We choose different paths and we will bloom in your own time. 🌷

09/27/2025

🫶 Affirm:

Dearest Self,
It's time to reclaim your peace. 🫶

07/31/2025

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY to Anchoring Hope Counseling! 🎂🎉

We are grateful for all of your support and look forward to continuing to serve you! Be on the lookout for new things to come….