Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Somatic Therapy Guide to the Wound With No Story
If nothing bad happened in your childhood but something is quietly missing, you are not making it up. A somatic therapist on childhood emotional neglect — what it is, the specific kinds of “nothing” most people are actually describing, and what helps. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & […]
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 […]
The Vagus Nerve Myth: Why Positive Thinking Cannot Fix A Dysregulated Nervous System
What this piece is Positive thinking cannot fix a dysregulated nervous system. Cold plunges cannot. Humming cannot. Five minutes of slow breathing on a wellness app cannot. If you’ve tried any of those, or all of them, and felt like a failure when they didn’t work, that wasn’t your failure. It was a misunderstanding. A […]
The Age You Stopped
Why You’re Emotionally Stuck at the Age You Were Hurt — and How to Bring That Age Home Here is a small, slightly strange observation worth checking against your own life. You are not one consistent age. Not on the inside. On paper you are whatever number you are — but the felt sense of […]
Uncomfortable Life Transitions: A Somatic Therapy Guide to the In-Between
Why life transitions feel so unbearable, what the anthropologists called liminal space, and a practical, ancient way to stand on ground you cannot yet see. By Abi Beri | Integrative Somatic Therapist & Nervous System Specialist · Dublin & Online TL;DR. If something in your life has ended — or is ending — and the […]
Rejection Sensitivity Isn’t an Overreaction: A Somatic Therapy View on Why Silence Hurts So Much
If a delayed text can ruin your afternoon, your nervous system isn’t broken — it’s hypervigilant. Here is the body-based path back to safety. By Abi Beri | Somatic Therapist & Integrative Practitioner, Dublin & Online Picture this. Someone you care about texts you. It is shorter than usual. No emoji. Just the words. And […]
Executive Dysfunction Isn’t Laziness: A Somatic Therapy View on Why You Can’t Start
When your brain won’t do the thing, you’re not weak — your nervous system is in shutdown. Here’s the body-based path back online. By Abi Beri | Somatic Therapist & Integrative Practitioner, Dublin & Online There is something you need to do. You know what it is. You know how to do it. It is […]
Somatic Healing Meditation: A Full Body Vagus Nerve Journey
Why the nerve you’ve never heard of is the key to healing — and how to follow its path through your body By Abi Beri | Integrative Somatic Therapist [Estimated reading time: 10 minutes] There’s a nerve in your body that runs from your brainstem all the way down to your gut. It passes through […]
