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I'm Abi Beri, an Integrative Holistic Therapist and Family Constellation Facilitator based in Ireland, working with clients worldwide. This podcast is for anyone ready to heal — not through quick fixes, but through real, body-based, soul-level work. Here you'll find guided meditations, deep talks on trauma and ancestral patterns, somatic practices, nervous system regulation, and inner child healing. My approach integrates somatic therapy, family systems work, and holistic healing — creating content that goes beyond surface-level wellness into genuine transformation. New episodes regularly.

  1. 2d ago

    They Did Their Best, And It Still Hurt: Why Understanding Your Parents Doesn't Settle It

    A sentence said kindly at kitchen tables and funerals, which is usually true and usually makes things worse — and the bind it leaves people in for decades. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Ireland. In person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally. Topics: why early beliefs are not opinions but expectations, formed by repetition rather than reasoning and largely before language, and therefore stored as the way things are rather than as propositions available for review; Bowlby's internal working models, and why these present as certainty rather than as thought; the argument that such conclusions were accurate readings of real conditions rather than distortions, including why a dependent child will attribute fault to itself, since that is the only one of the two available explanations that leaves a way forward; why the model never updates, given that testing it would require doing the very thing it forbids; the separation of declarative knowledge from the older, faster, non-verbal system that produces reactions, and why understanding therefore fails to change feeling; the mechanical rather than moral claim that one cannot give a child what one did not receive; and the two-truths distinction that allows an adult to understand completely while the younger one remains under no obligation to be reasonable.

    They Did Their Best, And It Still Hurt: Why Understanding Your Parents Doesn't Settle It

  2. Sep 17

    Somatic Healing for Anxiety and Fear: A Guided Meditation to Release Stuck Emotion

    A guided somatic meditation for releasing anxiety, fear, and stuck emotion from the body. Anxiety and fear so often don’t live in our thoughts — they live in the body, as energy that’s trying to move and can’t. Emotion is energy in motion, meant to rise, be felt, and pass. When it’s blocked, it gets stuck, and that held energy is often what we feel as anxiety. In this slow, safe, body-based practice, we come down into the body and gently turn toward what’s held, so it can finally move through you and out. You stay in control throughout — nothing is forced. Best practised somewhere quiet, lying down or seated, with eyes closed. If heavy emotion arises, please seek support. Abi Beri | Integrative Somatic Therapist | Family Constellation Facilitator.

    Somatic Healing for Anxiety and Fear: A Guided Meditation to Release Stuck Emotion

  3. Sep 14

    Somatic Parts Work: A Guided Journey Into Your Inner World | Abi Beri

    There is more than one of you in there, and they do not agree. Roughly ten minutes of teaching and then a long, slow guided journey — because this is not something you understand, it is something you do. The journey: locating the ground; asking who is here today; finding where they live in the body and letting it become detailed; checking how you feel turning towards them, and recognising impatience as another inhabitant rather than as yourself; asking permission and accepting a no; simply being with, without fixing or reassuring; two questions — what do you want me to know, and what do you need from me; and a complete closing, including putting away anything unfinished and returning fully to the room. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Dublin, Ireland. In person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally.

    Somatic Parts Work: A Guided Journey Into Your Inner World | Abi Beri

  4. Sep 10

    I Thought I Had Dealt With This: When An Old Wound Comes Back Years Later

    Something happened. At the time it took you apart. Time passed, you rebuilt something, and from the outside you are fine — and you have never been the same. This is about what happens after that, which almost nobody prepares people for. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Ireland. In person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally. Topics: the formal recognition of complex PTSD in ICD-11 and its three disturbances in self-organisation — emotional dysregulation, a persistent negative self-concept, and relationship difficulty — and why seeing them written down converts a long-held character assessment back into a described injury; the mechanism by which material returns as a re-entered physiological state rather than a recalled memory, and why triggers are stored conditions rather than narrative; the dormancy and flare rhythm, and why good stretches make flares feel like failure; experiential avoidance and the two arrows teaching; the four stages that actually occur, ending in permission; the argument that closure is not a clinical term, and the continuing-bonds finding that people carry rather than sever; and scar tissue as the honest image. The practice is a coexistence practice. Nothing is resolved, and if it still aches afterwards exactly as much, it worked. ⚠️ Coexistence is the goal of good treatment, never a substitute for it.

    I Thought I Had Dealt With This: When An Old Wound Comes Back Years Later

  5. Sep 5

    Unanswered Prayer: What Happens After The Answer Is No | Abi Beri

    You asked for something specific, at three in the morning or in a hospital corridor, and the answer was no. This is about what happens to a person after that — offered as one person's view rather than as teaching. Use whatever word is true for you. God, the universe, life, fate, nothing at all. It works either way, including if you believe there was nobody there and you were talking to yourself in a car park. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Dublin, Ireland. In-person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally.

    Unanswered Prayer: What Happens After The Answer Is No | Abi Beri

  6. Sep 5

    Attachment Styles Without The Labels: Why Knowing Yours Hasn't Changed Anything

    You took the quiz, you got the word, and nothing changed. This is about why — and about what the research actually says, which is considerably more careful than the version that reaches most people. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Ireland. In-person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally. Topics: why a label produces recognition without producing change, and the category error underneath it — that an attachment pattern is a state arriving in a body faster than conscious thought rather than a belief available to argument; what the research genuinely claims, including that attachment is relationship-specific rather than a personality trait, that adult measures are dimensional rather than categorical, and that stability over time is moderate rather than fixed; the observational origin of the categories in Ainsworth's Strange Situation, and how far an online quiz is from the instruments researchers actually use; each pattern treated as a protection rather than a defect — the reaching that developed because connection was uncertain, the withdrawal that developed because closeness meant losing oneself, and the mixed pattern in which longing and bracing run simultaneously; the somatic signature of each, since an unanswered message is a tightness in the chest rather than a thought; the systemic view of what a family field made possible and what it could not hold, without blame; and earned security — the finding that a coherent account of what happened predicts security better than the events themselves do.

    Attachment Styles Without The Labels: Why Knowing Yours Hasn't Changed Anything

  7. Aug 29

    It Makes Perfect Sense: A Somatic Talk on the Vagus Nerve, Nervous System Dysregulation & Why Your Reactions Aren’t a Flaw | Abi Beri (Dublin)

    A talk on the reactions you have been at war with — the spiralling, the sudden unsafe feeling, the overwhelm, the shutting down, the physical tension. All the things that have made you ask ‘what is wrong with me?’ The reframe: nothing is wrong with you. YOUR DYSREGULATION MAKES PERFECT SENSE. Every one of those reactions is a nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do, responding intelligently to something real. Your body is remembering. The vagus nerve — the primary parasympathetic nerve, the great regulator — is firing the pattern it learned back when the danger was real. Your dysregulation is not a malfunction. It is intelligence.

    It Makes Perfect Sense: A Somatic Talk on the Vagus Nerve, Nervous System Dysregulation & Why Your Reactions Aren’t a Flaw | Abi Beri (Dublin)

  8. Aug 29

    What You Carry That Was Never Yours: Family Constellations on Inherited Trauma | Abi Beri

    A Family Constellations practice for the heaviness you cannot explain. A sadness too big for your own story. A guilt you cannot trace. A pattern that keeps repeating. What if it did not begin with you? In Family Constellations work — developed by Bert Hellinger — this is called ENTANGLEMENT. A descendant, out of a deep and touching loyalty, unconsciously carries the unresolved burden of an ancestor. Grief that was never grieved. The fate of someone who was excluded. Guilt that was never seen. The engine underneath it is not dysfunction; it is love — a child's boundless loyalty to a family system, which will say, unconsciously: if someone here suffered and was never seen, I will carry it. But that loyalty helps no one. Your depression does not ease your grandmother's grief. Your guilt does not redeem your ancestor. So the work is not to heal the burden as if it were yours — it is to recognise it is not, and to give it back, with respect, to the one whose fate it is. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Dublin, Ireland. In-person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally. Drawing on Bert Hellinger's orders of love, Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start With You, Franz Ruppert's intergenerational trauma work, Rachel Yehuda's epigenetics research on Holocaust survivor descendants, and the wider systemic tradition (Boszormenyi-Nagy, Schützenberger). The real healing sentences of the work are spoken slowly, with space. Companion piece to ‘The Ones Who Stand Behind You’, which teaches the receiving; this one teaches the setting-down. For anyone who arrived here after ‘Another Self’ on Netflix: the therapeutic method in the series is Family Constellations, and this is a practice drawn from it. The series compresses and dramatises the work considerably. It is not a medical treatment and does not treat or cure physical illness. 🇮🇪 If deep feeling stirred: Samaritans Ireland & UK 116 123 (24/7, free). Guided Family Constellation groups in Dublin, and one-to one constellation work online globally. Book at somatictherapyireland.com.

    What You Carry That Was Never Yours: Family Constellations on Inherited Trauma | Abi Beri
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I'm Abi Beri, an Integrative Holistic Therapist and Family Constellation Facilitator based in Ireland, working with clients worldwide. This podcast is for anyone ready to heal — not through quick fixes, but through real, body-based, soul-level work. Here you'll find guided meditations, deep talks on trauma and ancestral patterns, somatic practices, nervous system regulation, and inner child healing. My approach integrates somatic therapy, family systems work, and holistic healing — creating content that goes beyond surface-level wellness into genuine transformation. New episodes regularly.

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  • Creator
    Abi Beri
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    210
  • Rating
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    © Abi Beri
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    Blissful Evolution