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 […]
The Body Keeps The Score — But It Also Keeps Hope
By Abi Beri Half a sentence If you’ve ever read Bessel van der Kolk’s book, or come across the phrase the body keeps the score in a therapy room or a wellness post, you’ll know it has changed something fundamental about how we think about trauma and the body. The contribution was monumental. It has […]
Why Can’t I Let Go? A Somatic Therapy Guide to What Actually Helps
If “just let it go” has never worked for you, there is a reason. Letting go is what becomes possible when the body feels safe enough to stop holding — not an act of will. A somatic therapist on what actually helps. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & […]
A Body Scan For Coming Home: Speaking To Each Part Of The Body
By Abi Beri A different kind of body scan Most of us have spent our whole lives speaking to our bodies in two ways. Either we ignore them entirely until they make us. Or we manage them — tell them to be quieter, to sit still, to stop hurting, to perform better, to look different. […]
A Nervous System Reset Meditation: A Polyvagal-Informed Guided Practice
The nervous system doesn’t really reset — it returns. A somatic therapist on the practice that helps it find its way back, and the polyvagal science underneath it. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online TL;DR. A nervous system reset meditation is a guided somatic practice that supports […]
Being the Safe One: A Somatic Therapy Guide to Parentification and the Cost of Being the Regulated One
If you are the calm one everyone leans on, you are paying a hidden cost. A somatic therapist on parentification, the regulated-one pattern, and how to turn the capacity homeward. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online TL;DR. If several people in your life would name you first […]
Somatic Therapy vs Talk Therapy: What’s the Difference, and Which Is Right for You?
A clear, everyday-language guide to two different paths through the same difficulties — with a short audio explainer from Abi Beri. If you’ve been looking for support — for anxiety, stress, the after-effects of something hard, or just a sense of being stuck — you’ve probably come across the word “therapy” a hundred times. What […]
