When Grounding Doesn’t Work: What To Do Instead
When the five-four-three-two-one starts to feel mocking. When you’ve named everything you can see and your body is still nowhere near land. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin, Naas, Newbridge, Kildare & Online TL;DR. YOU ARE NOT FAILING THE TOOLS. The tools have a domain of usefulness and you […]
Why Self-Awareness Isn’t Enough: An Integrative Therapist’s Guide to What Comes After Seeing
If you can see your pattern but still can’t change it, you are not failing. Self-awareness is the door, not the room. A somatic and integrative therapist on what actually moves things — once you have already seen what you do. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online […]
Morning Anxiety Meditation: A Guided Practice for the Nervous System That Wakes Up Already Tense
If you wake up anxious before the alarm goes off, you are not failing your mornings. A Dublin somatic therapist on what is actually happening — and the small morning practice that changes the texture of the rest of the day. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Somatic Therapy Dublin, […]
The One Inside You Who Is Tired: A Simple Way to Be With Difficult Emotions
TL;DR: Saying “the one inside me who is tired” instead of “I am tired” creates a small space between you and a difficult emotion, so you can be with the feeling rather than become it. It’s the core idea behind parts work and Internal Family Systems, without the jargon. Research on self-distancing and on naming […]
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 […]
