A Meditation for When Something Has Just Happened: Somatic First Aid From a Dublin Therapist
Something has just happened. The body is shaking, the chest is tight, the mind is running. A 20-minute trauma-informed somatic practice — and what to do (and not do) in the hours that follow. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Somatic Therapy Dublin, Naas, Newbridge, Kildare & Online TL;DR. If […]
Somatic Healing in Ireland: What It Is And What A Session Involves
Somatic healing works with the body rather than only with the story. Here is what that means in practice, what actually happens in a session, and how to tell whether it would suit you. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Family Constellation Facilitator · In person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & Kildare · online […]
Somatic Parts Work: Meeting The Parts Of You, Without The Vocabulary
You resolve, at eleven o’clock on a Sunday night, to do something differently — and by Tuesday afternoon somebody else entirely is running the show, and they never signed anything. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin, Naas, Newbridge, Kildare & Online TL;DR. There is more than one of you […]
Why Does Trauma Come Back Years Later?
You were fine for months. Then an entirely ordinary Tuesday, and it is at full volume, and you think: I thought I had dealt with this. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin, Naas, Newbridge, Kildare & Online TL;DR. BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT REMEMBERING. Part of the system RE-ENTERS THE […]
The Vagus Nerve, Nervous System Dysregulation & Why Your Reactions Make Perfect Sense (A Dublin Somatic Therapist Explains)
Your dysregulation is not a malfunction. It is the vagus nerve, faithfully firing an alarm it learned when the danger was real. A Dublin somatic therapist on polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, and the quiet clinical revolution that understanding IS regulating. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin, Naas, Newbridge, […]
What Is an Emotional Flashback? The Kind With No Pictures In It
Most people think a flashback means the film-reel version. That is one kind — and it is not the kind most people actually get. A flashback does not have to have pictures in it. It only has to bring the past into the present body. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist […]
What Are Glimmers? The Opposite of a Trigger — A Dublin Somatic Therapist on the Polyvagal Safety-Cue That Changes Everything
A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger — a micro-moment of safety, coined by polyvagal clinician Deb Dana. Learning to catch them isn’t toxic positivity. It is the clinical recalibration of a nervous system that has been trained to hunt danger and miss the light. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System […]
How to Release Trauma From the Body: The Sequel to The Body Keeps the Score (A Dublin Somatic Therapist Explains)
The Body Keeps the Score named where trauma is stored. But how does it actually move out? A Dublin somatic therapist on Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, the gazelle, the unfinished survival response, and the hopeful mechanism by which the body — given the right conditions — finally lets it go. By Abi Beri | Integrative […]
Safe Space Meditation: Building Safety from the Inside Out (For When Imagined Places Don’t Work)
If traditional safe place meditations have never quite landed for you, you are not failing the practice. A somatic therapist on a different way of building safety — by becoming the safe presence yourself. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online TL;DR. Most safe space meditations ask you […]
“My Parents Did Their Best — and You Were Still Hurt”: A Somatic Therapy Guide to Holding Both
Both can be true. The work is not to make the two voices agree. The work is to let them both speak. A somatic therapist on the dual-voices reframe that finally lets the wound move. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online TL;DR. There are two voices that […]
