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 […]
You Know Your Attachment Style. Why Hasn’t Anything Changed?
You took the quiz. You got the word. Something in you said: yes, that is exactly me. And then you did the same thing again on Thursday. By Abi Beri | Integrative Therapist & Family Constellation Facilitator · In person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & Kildare · online worldwide TL;DR. KNOWING YOUR ATTACHMENT STYLE DOES […]
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. […]
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 & […]
