Category: Psychosomatic Healing
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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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The Muscle of the Soul: The Psoas
Your hips are the bridge between your upper body and lower body. They are at the center of your body’s movement and directly affect your ability to move efficiently. Sitting within the well of your hip and lower spine is the Psoas major muscle, one of the two muscles that makes up the iliopsoas. It…
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Scientific Facts About The Vagus Nerve
1. It’s named Vagus because it “wanders” around the body like a vagabond. Vagus means wander in latin. It is the longest of the cranial nerves, and operates a vast network of fibres stationed like a spider web around all your organs. 2. It serves as a two-way communication channel between the brain and the…
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Conscious Advice for Gym Goers: Nutrition, Cold Immersion, Neuromechanics, PMS Cycles
Conscious advice for people who weight train, from Ex Champion Athlete and Strength and Conditioning Coach. Danielle Hayes. She is the creator and founder of Firefly Somatics™, a Nervous System Specialist, with almost 20 years of experience in weight training, and 7 years professionally in health and fitness. 1. Carbs do not make you gain…
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The Relationship Between The Nervous System and Neuroendocrine System
The neuroendocrine system is the body’s communication network. It is made up of specialised glands, which make and release hormones into the bloodstream, in response to different situations and signals, that can come from both inside and outside the body. These signals reach every organ and tissue in your body including the brain. A gland in the…
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Understanding Psycho Dermatology: Exploring the Link Between Skin and Stress
Do you ever find yourself battling with persistent skin issues like acne, eczema, dermatitis, or dry skin? Have you noticed that your skin seems to act up during particularly stressful periods? Research has increasingly highlighted the fascinating connection between our nervous system health and the health of our skin, a field known as psycho dermatology.…
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Heart Rate Variability: Tangible Biofeedback From The Vagus Nerve
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is an emergent property of complex cardiac-brain interactions and non-linear autonomic nervous system (ANS) processes. It is a measure for the variation in inter-beat-intervals that reflects ANS function and is correlated to your allostatic load. While we have always been led to believe otherwise, a healthy heart is actually not a metronome;…
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Your Body Responds To The World Around You
Scientific advancements have helped us better understand how the nervous system and brain work in conjunction with one another. Various research studies have given us greater insight into what’s happening in the brain and bodies of those who experience systematic overwhelm including all levels of traumatic occurrences The known fact that the brain is able…
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Histamine and Hives: Stress & Neuroimmunology
If the Nervous System is chronically dysregulated, Vagal Tone is weak, Allostasis is low, and the Immune System is therefore comprised, your body is under constant states of arousal and alertness. If you are systematically stuck in cyclical episodes of emergency, your cells will feel like they are under attack and signal the release of various…
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Is The Missing Link, The Vagus Nerve?
The vagus nerve signals the secretion of anti inflammatory hormones. It reduces glucocorticoids rushing around the brain, helping with healthy brain activity and promoting memory. This in turn deduces the activity of the amygdala in the brain, a gland that widens stress reaction and signals the nervous system to shift into mobilisation. In mobilisation the…
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What Goes Up, Must Come Down
Struggling with low mood after Christmas is a common trend as “silly season” comes to an end. Christmas is a huge westernised social construct, a fantasy period made by man and fuelled by Capitalism. As you come out of this fantasy, and back into your normal reality, it is very normal to feel flat and…
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Pineal Cyst Reduces in Size and Chronic Migraines Disappear: Vikki’s Journey
My client Vikki had her most recent MRI scan today on her brain. The last one done 13th December 2022. She came to me in early November of 2022, suffering with chronic migraines, which she had coped with her whole life. She had been taking painkillers on a consistent basis for years. In December 2022,…
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Neuroplasticity: Your Nervous System’s Ability To Change
“Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, has a very extraordinary degree of plasticity…. The nervous system never stops changing in response to learning…. it has an amazing ability to change throughout the course of our life, allowing us to learn new things… the brain continues to create new neural pathways and alter existing ones in order…
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The Basics of Neuroplasticity
Trauma is the experience of and emotional response to intense and severe psychological, neurobiological and physiological distress as a result of exposure to overwhelming experiences of (but also subject to witnessing) adverse and life-threatening incidents that feel beyond a person’s control. When we experience trauma, whether it is primary or secondary, type 1 or 2,…
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The Body Knows The Score: Your Inner Narratives
When a traumatic event occurs, the nervous system initiates a fight-flight or freeze response, with the goal to keep us safe and out of danger. This is a normal, innate survival reaction that is activated when we feel under threat or unsafe. When trauma is intense or repeated, and the trauma cycle is not completed…
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Inflammation & Skin Acne
Neurogenic releasing is only a small part of the somatic healing process. There then is a discharge process post somatic release. Whatever is broken down on a cellular level, including imprints that are visceral, or energy that has been lying stagnant due to low allostasy (which affects immunity also), is processed and waste products are…
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Trauma, Connective Tissue and Fascia
The human body is comprised of 4 cell types: • Epithelial Cells • Muscle Cells • Nerve Cells • Connective Tissue Cells (The Fascia) All cells have “traits”. Some of the characteristics that make a muscle cell unique are responsiveness, conductivity, contractility, extensibility, and elasticity. These traits are explained in further detail below: • Responsiveness:…
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