The body holds what the mind has not yet integrated. These articles explore body-based healing, nervous system regulation, and the practical work of releasing what's accumulated in tissue, breath, and posture. Drawn from twenty years of practice with clients carrying unresolved emotional and ancestral patterns.
inherited trauma
There is a specific quality to the work I do with inherited trauma that most clients notice only in retrospect: the moment they realise they…
inherited trauma
There is a specific kind of distress that does not fit the narrative you would build about your own life. You wake up with a weight you cannot trace to anything that happened yesterday, or last year, or in any chapter you could honestly claim as a turning point. The
ancestral trauma
People come to ancestral trauma work at very different points in their lives.
ancestral trauma
You have spent years trying to think your way out of a feeling that was never stored in your thoughts in the first place.
ancestral trauma
A complete practitioner's guide to ancestral trauma — what it is, how it lives in the body, the science behind it, and how to heal it. By Dr Mark Demaine, PhD.
inherited trauma
Somatic approaches to inherited trauma are body-based therapeutic practices that address the physiological residue of intergenerational trauma — held tension, nervous system dysregulation, and chronic activation — at the level where it is actually stored: in the body's tissues, not the thinking mind. Bessel van der Kolk's
ancestral trauma
When unusual experiences become overwhelming, what helps most isn't meaning. It's grounding.
somatic healing
Knowing your patterns intellectually doesn't change how you react under stress, because your reactions live somewhere your thinking brain can't reach.