Category: Psychosomatic Healing
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The Neurobiological Process of an Emotional Trigger
Emotional triggers are often spoken about in the context of relationships, trauma healing and personal growth. Yet few people understand what is actually happening inside the brain and body when a trigger is activated. The experience can feel overwhelming, disorienting or even frightening, especially when the reaction feels disproportionate to the situation. But when we…
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Why use a “Bottom Up” Approach for True Healing
Modern neuroscience has changed everything we once believed about healing and emotional development. For many years psychology focused almost entirely on the mind and assumed that if we could change the way we think, our feelings and behaviour would naturally follow. This approach suggested that healing was a mental process and that awareness alone could…
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Why We Repeat Painful Patterns: The Nervous System, Perception & Pain-Pleasure Loop
We often fault ourselves for repeating painful patterns in relationships, careers or behaviours. We might call it “self‑sabotage”, “bad luck”, or “I keep choosing the same toxic type”. But from a nervous‑system and brain‑based perspective, this repetition isn’t simply a failure of will‑power. Rather, it is deeply rooted in how your brain, body and nervous…
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The Nervous System & Neuromechanics: Trauma Shapes the Way You Move, Feel, and Live
The nervous system is a living intelligence, quietly orchestrating every aspect of human movement, reflex, and sensation. It is responsible for guiding posture, balance, coordination, and fine motor skills, all while responding to the environment and emotional experiences. Most people do not realise that their nervous system is not simply a biological machine but a…
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The Biology of Trauma, Epigenetics & Ancestral Healing
Trauma isn’t only psychological. It is biological, neurological, and transgenerational. Every experience we go through — every moment of love, loss, safety, or threat — leaves a trace in our nervous system and our genes. Modern science is finally proving what ancient wisdom, somatic traditions, and energy medicine have long known: the body remembers. Epigenetic…
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Unlocking Stored Anger: A Comprehensive Psychosomatic Healing Perspective
Emotions are not merely mental experiences — they are embodied phenomena. Every thought, belief, or feeling leaves a trace in the nervous system, organs, muscles, fascia, and even at a cellular level. When emotions such as anger, frustration, or self-criticism are not fully processed, they remain stored physically and psychologically, affecting behaviour, physiology, and overall…
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Understanding The Freeze Response
When most people hear the word trauma, they think of dramatic or extreme events: a car accident, the sudden death of a loved one, abuse, or a natural disaster. But trauma is not actually about the event itself. Two people could go through the very same experience—one walks away shaken but okay, while the other…
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Co-Regulation: How Our Nervous System Stabilises Through Connection
Co-regulation is the process where our nervous system naturally balances and stabilises itself through connection with others. It is an interpersonal, neurological, and biological phenomenon, deeply embedded in our physiology and early development. Our vagus nerve, mirror neurons, and systems of heart and somatic coherence work together to attune us to the energy of those…
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Libido And The Nervous System: Why Safety Is the Real Key to Pleasure
When people hear the word libido, most immediately correlate it to sexual desire: the spark of physical attraction, ‘chemistry’, the urge for intimacy, or the pull toward pleasure. But libido is far more complex than just wanting sex. Your libido is one of the most powerful mirrors of your nervous system health. The rise, fall,…
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The Evolution of Love Through the Nervous System and the Soul
We don’t fall in love — we ascend through it. And long before your mind can make sense of it, your nervous system knows. This is the overlooked truth in modern relationships: your love life is not just emotional or psychological — it’s somatic and neurobiological. Your body’s story of love is written in your…
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The Neurobiology of Abandonment & Psychosomatic Imprints
Abandonment. It’s a word we hear often in healing spaces, but what if we’ve been looking at it too narrowly? Most people think abandonment is a psychological issue. A fear of being left. A response to emotional neglect. But in truth, abandonment is not just emotional or relational — it’s physiological. It’s neurological. It’s cellular.…
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Biochemical Imbalances in Trauma Patterns
Predictable and common biochemical imbalances have been discovered as a core issue of most people with mood and trauma patterns. These include: When a person has an underlying biochemical imbalance that is genetic, it will cause symptoms to show up early in life, and often, progressively get worse with time as the accumulative effect increases.…
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The Inner Child Psyche
Inner child work involves healing emotional wounds in the psyche created from traumatic or adverse childhood experiences. These wounds can be triggered by fear, anxiety, lack of control, abandonment and grief. Inner child healing is multifaceted, many theorists have written about and even formed theories on the basis of childhood, child development and the importance…
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Healing The Shadowed Self
The Shadow Self refers to all parts of self that we deny, hide or reject. Jung describes the shadow as the hidden part of our human psyche, while our persona is the part of self that we show to the outer world. This refers to the ‘mask’ that is intended to hide our perceived flaws…
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A Roadmap to Identifying Trauma
Trauma is anything that for any reason, at that time, overwhelmed you and your nervous system. It is significantly different to stress – in terms of their biochemical effects, stress and trauma are completely different experiences. Trauma is not an event. Although it might occur around an event, it is not about the event. Trauma…
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The Science To An Emotional Release
Parasympathetic stimulation of the lacrimal gland is responsible for tear production, and this innervation originates from fibres conveyed in the facial nerve. The lacrimal glands are paired exocrine glands, one for each eye, found in most terrestrial vertebrates and some marine mammals, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film. In humans, they are…
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Supplements That Help Psychosomatic Healing: Danielle’s Recommendations
It is a hard reality that due to many reasons, including overproduction, our food sources lack the vital nutrients that our system’s absolutely need in order to be and remain healthy. Ingesting supplements alongside a healthy balanced diet is pivotal to our overall well being. The body is a complex ‘machine’. It requires a multitude…
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PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a condition that’s caused by an extremely stressful or terrifying event. It can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed (both primary or secondary) a traumatic event, series of events, or set of circumstances. PTSD (both acute short term and complex long term) is the outcome of unresolved overwhelm within the system.…
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Neurogenic Tremoring: Discharging Stress Energy
Neurogenic Shaking…. This is ONE way that the body releases the imprints of trauma, tension, stress, anxiety, and past painful experiences that have been stored or imprinted deep within the nervous system,. muscles and fascia (fibrous tissue), cells, neuronal matrix. Natural involuntary shaking and swaying is how we discharge the stress/pain energy induced within the…
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Knowledge is Power: Danielle’s Top Book Recommendations To Help You Empower Yourself
Below are a list of just a handful of the various books I used in my own unravelling and healing into consciousness. Happy reading! 2. In an Unspoken Voice by Dr Peter Levine 3. Accessing The Healing Powers of The Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg, forward by Dr Stephen Porges 4. The Polyvagal Theory by…
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