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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. 5 days ago

    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)

  2. 5 days ago

    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

  3. 25 Aug

    Emotional Flashbacks in CPTSD: Why You Feel Back There Without Visual Memories

    A short trauma-informed talk about emotional flashbacks — and specifically about the kind almost nobody recognises as a flashback. Most people think ‘flashback’ means the cinematic version: pictures, a scene replaying, being visibly back there. That is one kind. It is not the kind most people actually get. The other kind has NO visual content whatsoever — you simply, suddenly, feel small, ashamed, terrified, or certain that something is very wrong and it is your fault. No image. Nothing to point at. The clinician Pete Walker named this an EMOTIONAL FLASHBACK, and it is a core feature of complex PTSD. A flashback does not have to have pictures in it. It only has to bring the past into the present body. 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 Pete Walker's work on emotional flashbacks and complex PTSD, Babette Rothschild on dual awareness and braking, Bessel van der Kolk's imaging work on flashbacks and language, Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing, and Stephen Porges on orienting.

    Emotional Flashbacks in CPTSD: Why You Feel Back There Without Visual Memories

  4. 23 Aug

    The Griefs No One Let You Name: A Somatic Talk on Disenfranchised & Hidden Grief | Abi Beri

    A talk for the griefs the world doesn’t recognise. The life that didn’t happen. The person you used to be. The friendship that faded. The child who grew up. The future your younger heart was promised, that turned out not to be coming. All the losses no one brought a casserole for. All the griefs you told yourself didn’t count. There is a name for this — disenfranchised grief. Kenneth Doka named it in 1989. Grief the world doesn’t recognise, and so never gives you permission to feel. Unrecognised grief doesn’t disappear. It settles into the body and waits. 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 Kenneth Doka on disenfranchised grief, Pauline Boss on ambiguous loss, Francis Weller’s Wild Edge of Sorrow and the five gates of grief, David Kessler’s Finding Meaning, and somatic + polyvagal-informed practice. For miscarriage, estrangement, empty-nest, faded friendships, immigration loss, chronic illness, ambiguous relationships, the life-that-wasn’t. For the heaviness you cannot explain.

    The Griefs No One Let You Name: A Somatic Talk on Disenfranchised & Hidden Grief | Abi Beri

  5. 17 Aug

    Learning to Catch the Light: A Somatic Talk on Glimmers & the Opposite of a Trigger | Abi Beri

    A talk on a word you probably don’t know but almost certainly need — glimmer. Coined by the polyvagal clinician Deb Dana as the exact opposite of a trigger. If your nervous system can be tripped into threat by a tiny cue, it can also be tipped into safety by an equally tiny one. A glimmer is a micro-moment of safety — a half-second flicker that tells the system: you’re okay right now. And they’re everywhere. You’ve just been trained not to see them. 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 Deb Dana on glimmers, Stephen Porges on neuroception and polyvagal theory, Peter Levine on somatic experiencing, and Rick Hanson on how attention shapes the brain (Hardwiring Happiness, the HEAL model). Topics: what glimmers are; why you stopped seeing them (the negativity bias in threat-tuned systems); the recalibration of neuroception; going glimmer-hunting outside and inside the body (interoceptive glimmers); why this is NOT toxic positivity — the crucial clinical distinction; the contemplative dimension. For trauma survivors, chronic worriers, anxious people, and everyone whose nervous system has forgotten that the light on the wall is a message the body knows how to read.

    Learning to Catch the Light: A Somatic Talk on Glimmers & the Opposite of a Trigger | Abi Beri

  6. 9 Aug

    How the Body Lets It Go: A Somatic Talk on Releasing Trauma (Sequel to The Body Keeps the Score) | Abi Beri

    A talk positioned as the sequel to Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. That book named where trauma is stored — in the body, not just in memory. This talk teaches HOW IT MOVES OUT. Because your body is not just a filing cabinet for old fear. It is a system that knows how to complete, discharge, and let go. It has been trying to, this whole time. It just got interrupted. The mechanism is the animal one Peter Levine spent decades studying. When a gazelle escapes a cheetah, it stops, shakes for a minute or two, and returns calmly to grazing. No trauma. No PTSD. No gazelle awake that night. The trembling discharged the enormous survival energy the body had mobilised. The cycle completed. Nothing stored. Humans have the same mechanism. We just override it — because trembling in front of people feels undignified, and we are a species that would rather be traumatised than undignified. So the survival charge stays. Held. Waiting, decades later, to do the thing it never got to do. 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 Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (Waking the Tiger, In an Unspoken Voice), Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, David Berceli’s TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises), Stephen Porges’s polyvagal theory, Pat Ogden’s sensorimotor psychotherapy, and Robert Sapolsky’s animal-stress research. Topics: the gazelle insight; the unfinished survival response; why we override the shaking; the SE principle of safety with sensation in small doses; a carefully titrated somatic practice; why healing is slow, layered, and hopeful. IMPORTANT — big trauma charges are safest with a trained somatic practitioner. Do not force release. Practice safety and titration. If what surfaces feels overwhelming: Samaritans Ireland & UK 116 123 (24/7, free). Work more deeply: integrative somatic therapy in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare, or online globally. Free 20-minute intro at somatictherapyireland.com.

    How the Body Lets It Go: A Somatic Talk on Releasing Trauma (Sequel to The Body Keeps the Score) | Abi Beri

  7. 9 Aug

    A Dialogue With Your Heart: A Somatic Practice for the Body That Has Been Waiting | Abi Beri

    Most of ourdays are spent speaking to the body. Telling it to be quiet. Telling it to perform. Telling it to wait, to push through, to be different, to be less, to be more. What we very rarely do is the other half of the conversation. This guided somatic practice does the other half. It is not a meditation in the usual sense, not a body scan, not a visualisation. It is, simply, the posture of receiving — a hand on the chest, a long settled silence, and the slow discipline of letting the body speak first, in sensation rather than language. None of it is a problem to be solved. All of it is communication. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist and Nervous System Specialist (Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & online) — this long, paced practice walks you through settling, placing a hand on the chest, the first quiet listening, what the body often says first when it is finally heard, and a soft return. With the honest understanding that the body has often been ignored for so long that it does not yet trust the listener — and that the waiting is itself the first message. Looking for a somatic therapist for self-compassion, body based listening, chronic anxiety or burnout in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge or online from anywhere in Ireland or the world? More at somatictherapyireland.com and blissfulevolution.com.

    A Dialogue With Your Heart: A Somatic Practice for the Body That Has Been Waiting | Abi Beri

  8. 3 Aug

    You Are Allowed To Be Both: A Somatic Talk for When Your Parents Did Their Best and You Were Still Hurt | Abi Beri

    There is a sentence I hear in my therapy room almost every week. A client will be in the middle of describing something that happened to them, and right in the middle of saying it, they will stop and say — but my parents did their best. They say it in a particular way: not as a complete sentence in itself, but as a guard rail. As something they are putting up between themselves and the wound they just started to describe. What I usually say to them, very gently, is something like this. They probably did. Your parents probably did do their best. And you were also hurt. Both of those can be true. They are not in competition. You don’t have to choose between them. This somatic talk — drawing on inner child work, polyvagal informed somatic practice, and the systemic frame of Family Constellations — is about that moment. About the two voices that live in most of us: the adult voice that wants to be fair to our parents, that has perspective and context, and the wounded voice that didn’t get what it needed and is still, often without our noticing, carrying that. The work is not to make them agree. The work is to let them both speak. Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist and Nervous System Specialist (Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & online) — this is for anyone who has been quietly forcing themselves to choose between loving their parents and acknowledging that they were hurt. You don’t have to. They loved you. They hurt you. Both. Real. Allowed. Looking for a somatic therapist for inner child work, complicated grief about parents, attachment wounds or the two-voices work in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge or online from anywhere in Ireland or the world? More at somatictherapyireland.com and blissfulevolution.com.

    You Are Allowed To Be Both: A Somatic Talk for When Your Parents Did Their Best and You Were Still Hurt | 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
    204
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    Clean
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    © Abi Beri
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    Blissful Evolution

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