Healing from Trauma with Somatic Grounding

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Bridging the Gap

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CHANGE THE WAY YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. Discover how to rewire your brain, calm your mind, and heal your body through science-backed mindfulness, breathwork, and emotional resilience practices. Each episode blends neuroplasticity, meditation, and real-world nervous system relief to help you release stress, overcome life challenges, and strengthen relationships. Join Ricky Cortez to create lasting inner peace, deeper connection, and the courage to live with clarity and purpose.

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Healing from Trauma with Somatic Grounding

Bridging the Gap

10 minutes 28 seconds

1 month ago

Healing from Trauma with Somatic Grounding

🌉 BRIDGING THE GAP – 5 min Mindful Somatic Breathing

Episode 29: Healing from Trauma with Somatic Grounding - https://youtu.be/01nqV8bKCLs

✨ “You are more than your brain. Healing begins when safety is restored, and the body learns it is no longer in danger.”

🧠 The Neuroscience of Trauma & Healing

⚡ Trauma leaves the body in a loop of survival—our nervous system reacts as if danger is still present.
🌱 Neuroplasticity reminds us: safety can be rewired. With practice, fear responses soften, and joy becomes accessible.
🧩 Healing is not about erasing the past—it’s about transforming how the memory lives in us today.
💡 Each grounding practice strengthens the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, calming cortisol and increasing oxytocin.

🌬️ Breath & Somatic Grounding Practices

🌿 Slow, lengthened exhales guide the body from survival mode into calm regulation.
🌀 Body scan: tense and release shoulders, jaw, arms, legs, and feet—then feel the ground rooting you.
🪷 Rock gently or sway—movement can discharge stored fear and restore rhythm to the nervous system.
✨ Use sensory anchors: a soft blanket, soothing candle, lavender cream, or the comfort of touch.
🌊 Try walking meditation: imagine burying heavy memories in the woods or skipping a stone across water as release.

❤️ Living with Safety & Joy

🌞 Healing is grace in motion: take small steps, never overwhelm yourself, honor your pace.
🔗 Joy expands when we highlight small, safe, nourishing moments in daily life.
🛤️ Trauma healing is like learning to walk again—patience, repetition, and kindness rebuild strength.
💖 This work is rupture and repair: each time we pause, breathe, and return, we rewire our foundation of safety.
🌈 No comparison. No rush. This is your path.

💨 “You are safe now. The past is not the present. Each breath, each practice, roots you deeper into calm, connection, and joy.”

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