Here is my coaching client Siobhan explaining how traumatic imprints from childhood informed her perceptions, beliefs, feelings and thoughts, behaviours, which embedded into her nervous system, limbic system, biochemistry and gene expression, and hardwired into her neural matrix. She lived in chronic cycles of survival her whole life, which we have been actively rewiring the…

Traumatic events are impossible to put into words, as stated by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the author of best selling book “the body knows the score” This is because during experiences of trauma, Broca’s area of the brain, which is the part responsible for speech production, shuts down, compromising our ability to describe how…

Some signs of dissociation in terms of what it looks, sounds and feels like: 1) ContradictionWords don’t match with behaviours and actions. There’s incoherence between brain and body. Its also true that their neurodevelopmental patterns and attachment system is attempting to connect for comfort, however there is a huge layer of safety as their defense…

You’ve tried it all, cognitive therapies, CBT, counselling, psychotherapy, yet you are still reliving and experiencing the same cyclical patterns of emotions, feelings, sensations, numbness, bodily tightness, thoughts… You’ve tried other portals… mindfulness, journaling, trying to just think positive, energy work (reiki, rahanni, angelic, plant med) You know on a mind level, and consciously want…

Meet Dr. Ixchel, a medical student studying in RCSI Dublin, originally from San Francisco. and in year 4 of her studies. Ixchel began working with me in March 2022, initially aa a training client at The CMB Gym and then she quickly felt drawn to somatic healing work. From here she enrolled on my psychosomatic…

At the core of my work is… To create a neurobiology of safety and security To take a journey into the autonomic nervous system and learn to connect with the language, cognition and narratives of the body To create an embodied awareness, meaning, an expansive inner sense of self that feels connected, safe and supportive…

Your body will tell you what previous traumas need to be retraced, recalled and resolved The body doesn’t speak words as a way of remembering the past. It speaks implicitly, non verbally, through various sensory cues and electrical impulses It communicates through tightening, bracing, collapsing, withdrawing, numbing, dissociating, freezing…. Movements, sensations, pain, facial expressions, tone…

Are you living in cyclical states of stress, panic and anxiety? Is your neurobiological and neuroceptive pathway conditioned to states of fear? Is your nervous system programmed to safety or survival response? Is your body in a cycle of producing fear proteins to “keep you safe”? Are you always on the go and struggle to…

My somatic work is build on the foundations of Polyvagal theory, a proven neuroscientific approach to healing and retaining the autonomic nervous system and unconscious mind (the body). The shaking, swaying and neural tremoring you see in footage of my clients is induced by the nervous system. It is extremely safe, and is induced neural…

Everyone! Somatic literally means working with the body, as opposed to the mind. 80% of your body’s signals are transmitted neurally to the CNS and brain from the peripheral nervous system and body. Only 20% is transmitted from the brain down. The brain is more of a logistics warehouse, our computer and projection screen. The…

This statement is absolutely TRUE, and is based on the foundations of neuroscience and polyvagal theory You cannot argue science, as it is tangible, factual and supported by concrete evidence Do you care for your nervous system and internal energy system? Are you in cyclical states of stress response, fight and flight energy streams? Are…

1) Brain Architecture Our prefrontal cortex (front of the brain, used for logical thinking and cognitive behaviour) corpus callosum (a thick bundle of nerve fibres that ensures both sides of the brain, left and right, communicate and send signals to each other) and hippocampus (memory and learning centre) shrink in size and capacity, while the…

This is what it looks like when the energy behind trauma, pain and stress is being discharged from the autonomic nervous system, somatic system and body. The energy here I refer to includes glucocorticoids (cortisol, cortisone) and catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine). Neurogenic shaking and tremoring, which you see here, happens when a trauma imprinted nervous…

When we hear fight-flight response, what does this actually mean, neuroscienctifically? The sympathetic response in the nervous system, referred to as fight-flight, is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to our survival. It is activated through neuroception, meaning threats are detected by our nerves and neurosignals…

Deep and rhythmic diaphragmatic breathing helps to calm your thoughts, slow down your heart rate, and regulate your autonomic nervous system. When you’re focusing on something that requires your full and undivided attention, focused patterned breathing helps you direct what your mind is paying attention to and focus on that thing without any distractions. When…

What an abandonment wound generally looks like: It creates a series of limiting beliefs that are hardwired in the neurobiological pathway and play out in real-time through actions, decisions, words, thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Deep within the psyche is an inner child that believes & feels: “I’m not loveable. I’m not wanted. I’m not worthy.…

The vagus nerve has 80% of its branches in the parasympathetic nervous system, our rest and digest system. To have optimal digestion, we have to be in a calm & safe state in our nervous system. Optimal vagus function drives digestion, assimilation and elimination. If someone is hardwired to chronic stress, in trauma response and…