🌿 Deb Dana, LCSW, leads the way in Polyvagal-informed trauma work.

Tomorrow, Oct 7, Members can join her Master Class Autonomic Wisdom to explore how your nervous system guides safety, connection, and growth.

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🍁 Healing, learning, and connection. 🤍

October’s gatherings at The Embody Lab guide you through somatics, trauma work, and integrative practices.

Discover what’s coming: https://f.mtr.cool/egkbdtsgje

The somatic impact of trauma is predictable.

So is healing—when we honor the body, build safety, and stay with it over time.

 #SomaticHealing #TraumaRecovery

#GenerativeSomatics #JusticeWork

Fight, flight, freeze, appease, dissociate—ancient, wise, automatic.

#NervousSystem #Somatics

#ComplexPTSD #TraumaAwareness

Trauma is social and individual.

Healing needs to be, too.

#CollectiveCare #HealingJustice

Your “protector parts” aren’t bad.

They just learned the only way to keep you safe was to shut down, lash out, or disappear.

#IFS #InnerWork

Trauma breaks down our core needs for safety, belonging, and dignity—and often makes them feel incompatible.

 #Somatics #SocialHealing

#JournalPrompt #SomaticCheckIn #SelfInquiry

Even survival strategies get shaped into default behavior. We repeat them until we realize: they’re not needed anymore.

#SomaticHealing #TraumaRecovery

#HealingJourney #TraumaInformed

Derealization: The world doesn’t feel real.

Depersonalization: I don’t feel real.

Both can follow repeated, inescapable trauma.

#Somatics #TraumaRecovery

Trauma: A shaping that no longer matches the moment.

 #GenerativeSomatics #Embodiment

“Who am I?” gets complicated when you’ve spent years dissociating just to survive. Trauma healing is identity healing.

 #ComplexPTSD #SelfInquiry

#SystemicTrauma #Somatics

Avoidance isn’t about weakness. It’s the body saying: “I can’t face that yet.”

Pushing before you have resources can re-wound.

 #TraumaInformed #GentleHealing

Complex PTSD can mean swinging between overwhelm and shutdown…sometimes in a single day.

 #ComplexPTSD #NervousSystem

Sometimes trauma doesn’t come with flashbacks—it’s subtle.

A felt sense. A breath held too long. A body that flinches before the mind knows why.

#SomaticAwareness #PTSD

IFS asks: What if the parts of you you’ve been trying to silence are actually trying to protect you?

 #IFS #PartsWork

“Even in modern medicine... you can almost see this philosophical orientation of: ‘The body is not to be trusted.’” — Dr. Devon Christie

 #TrustYourBody #Somatics

Trauma shatters dignity. Healing restores it—not through perfection, but presence.

 #DignityInHealing #Somatics

#SomaticPractice #HealingTools

In trauma therapy, safety isn’t a goal—it’s the foundation. Without it, no real healing happens.

 #TraumaTherapy #SafeEnough

You can’t think your way out of trauma. You have to feel your way through it—slowly, gently, safely.

 #SomaticTherapy #TraumaRecovery

#Somatics #TraumaRecovery

If your survival strategy was to disappear, to fawn, to fight, or to freeze—it wasn’t wrong.

It worked.

Now we get to update it.

 #SurvivalWisdom #IFS

Relational trauma isn’t always loud.

Sometimes it’s the silence. The neglect. The constant need to perform to feel safe.

 #RelationalTrauma #SomaticHealing

Most trauma is caused by people—and by systems humans create.

Healing includes challenging those systems.

 #SystemicTrauma #JusticeHealing

#TraumaInformed #Somatics