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 […]
Your Triggers Are Not Your Enemy
They Are Your Wounded Parts Asking To Be Seen On the radical reframe of triggers as messengers rather than malfunctions, the wounded part speaking through them, and why managing your triggers will never resolve them The Way We Usually Talk About Triggers We talk about managing them. Coping with them. Avoiding them. We have trigger […]
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 […]
The Fawn Response: When Your Survival Strategy Was to Please
Let me ask you something. When you walk into a room, what is the first thing you do? If you are anything like the person this piece is for, you scan. Instantly, automatically, without thinking about it. Who is there. What mood they are in. Whether there is tension. What might be needed. What might […]
When Love Feels Like Danger: Understanding and Healing Relational Trauma
By Abi Beri — Nervous System & Trauma Specialist | BlissfulEvolution.com | SomaticTherapyIreland.com There’s a particular kind of loneliness that doesn’t come from being alone. It comes from being in a relationship — or wanting one — while something inside you braces, pulls back, or waits for the floor to give way. Maybe you’ve noticed […]
Nervous System Reset: Why Quick Fixes Don’t Work (And What Actually Does)
Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s stuck. And it can learn to come home. By Abi Beri | Dublin, Naas & Newbridge [Reading time: 11 minutes] You have probably searched for this. Nervous system reset. How to calm your nervous system. How to get out of fight or flight. And you have found a lot […]
Why You Can’t Let Anyone In: Healing the Guarded Heart
Safe and closed is not the same as safe and alive. By Abi Beri | Dublin, Naas & Newbridge [Reading time: 10 minutes] You might not call it a closed heart. You might call it being independent. Self-sufficient. Not needing anyone too much. You might call it being careful, or having high standards, or protecting […]
Holding Space: Why Being Witnessed Is the Healing We’ve Been Missing
“I don’t know why this happened to you. But I can hold this for you.” Let that sentence land for a moment. If you’ve found your way to this article, chances are you’re carrying something. Something heavy. Something you’ve tried to understand, tried to explain, tried to make sense of. And maybe — after all […]
The Hidden Cost of Living for Others: How Societal Expectations Dysregulate Your Nervous System
Understanding the somatic experience of performance and the path to authentic living Have you ever noticed a particular tension that settles into your shoulders when you’re about to do something you “should” do rather than something you want to do? Or the way your breath becomes shallow when you’re performing a version of yourself that […]
