Dr. Bianca Baciu

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Dr. Bianca Baciu

Somatic guide, educator and pianist specializing in unique trauma and stress release modalities.

02/13/2026

💡If food brands promise to "stand by us," what does this say about how lonely we've become?

02/11/2026

🤷‍♀️How real is connection when we've outsourced the very act of being seen?

02/09/2026

If you can relate, you may find this insightful👇

In our modern society, much emphasis is placed on external goals.

💡But what if the key to achieving our goals lies in turning our focus inwards more, and on creating a stronger sense of safety for our pursuits?

So much motivational-type content is available to us nowadays, emphasizing the need for self-discipline & a willingness to place ourselves in different circumstances or to take different actions if we want to experience different outcomes.

For some, it’s not a lack of determination, but rather the degree of nervous system activation (or stress) that results from placing oneself in different circumstances or doing things differently, that impacts our ability to achieve the desired outcome.

If the actions required to achieve the desired result cause activation that is beyond our capacity - making us feel unsafe or “over-exposed” - our nervous system will put us in “threat physiology” to keep us safe 🛡️.

Some may experience this as lethargy, brain fog, physical pain, ADHD-like responses, recurring pain, procrastination or difficulty making decisions, lack of motivation when planning & problem-solving as just a few examples.

When we build our capacity for self-regulation so that we can better meet our challenges:

👉We make clearer decisions

👉We respond rather than react

👉We can sustain our energy longer, and feel healthier and lighter

👉We bounce back faster from setbacks

That’s why this year, instead of focusing only on external goals, I encourage you to prioritize your nervous system’s capacity so you feel safe enough to take on something different, or more than before 🤗.

02/06/2026

A gentle reminder that as humans, we are part of nature 🤗.

02/04/2026

What do you find supportive in times of struggle 🩵?

Religion

Humans are flawed.We need rules, authority, and control to behave. Spirituality = submission.

The Blank Slate

We’re born neutral. Everything is learned. Spirituality = programming.

We Are Inherently Good

We’re born oriented toward connection and care. Trauma is distortion, not corruption.

Spirituality = remembering.

02/02/2026

👉My journey with Vision Somatics® began long before the model had a name.

As a child, I noticed that I could “see” into people’s physiology.

Walking past someone in a grocery store or sitting in a park, I could sense the health of their organs, areas of vulnerability, and sometimes even illness or injury.

I didn’t seek this out—it simply happened. (As you can imagine, this wasn’t a gift my culture of origin or later academic environments celebrated.)

Like many intuitive capacities that don’t fit neatly into a résumé, it was tucked away for decades. 📦

As I entered somatic therapy and developmental trauma work, this way of perceiving gradually resurfaced—this time grounded in training, theory, and clinical attunement.

What once felt confusing became a precise and nuanced tool for trauma resolution, deepening both my clients’ healing and my understanding of how the body communicates beyond words. 💫

Vision Somatics® supports access to traumatized spaces—within an individual and across lineage—particularly when memories are fragmented or absent (which is often the case in developmental and generational trauma).

Over years of practice, I have also developed a clinically informed collection of therapeutic imagery designed to engage implicit visual memory, support orienting responses, foster coherence, and safely expand nervous system capacity. 💠

Trauma often leaves behind fragmentation, disconnection, and a profound loneliness. By leaning into non-conscious sensory and meaning-patterns, Vision Somatics® helps uncover a quieter path back toward safety, coherence, and connection.

Thankful for clients like Lois who are open to walking the “path less travelled” with me 🩵.

01/30/2026

Fetal movement is extraordinarily important in early trauma work 👇.

Whether we are in our 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, developmental movement is an essential part of working with early trauma.

🤰By the end of the third trimester, the baby is starting to recognize the Self, not through introspection ("Who am I ?") or somatic tracking, but through movement.

It is the baby's first integrative process, first point of access to the Self; the original language of self-organization.

The baby discovers: "I exist" "I can connect" "I have agency" "I can impact my environment"

As the baby is born, it continues to explore movement and integrate primitive reflexes.

💡Trauma at these early stages deeply disrupts developmental layers of the Self:

Safety (yielding) Agency (pushing) Desire (reaching) Coherence (cross-lateral patterns) Confidence (standing) Forward movement (walking)

👉When we revisit developmental movements in adulthood, we aren’t “regressing”— we’re rebuilding the architecture of the Self from the ground up.

These movements give access to the Self at the level the Self was originally formed: through sensation, relationship, and movement—not thought.

This is one example of how body-based approaches to therapy can support healing without the need to verbalize - or have explicit memory of - a traumatic event in order to process it.

response

01/28/2026

💡Sometimes the most regulated response is doing nothing at all.

01/26/2026

👉Yes, you would often find access to the body challenging.

You would need to learn somatic vocabulary.

You would run into really big emotions.

Above all, you would embark on a journey that asks you to suspend your current version of reality so that a new felt experience can be introduced. 💫

And yes, we would also talk 🩵.

Thankful to all the clients that have had the courage to walk the path less travelled with me 👣.

01/23/2026

👉Depression, anxiety, and insecurity often rise because we’re told to start the year ready to accomplish, ready to transform, already better.

But growth doesn’t work like that.

In winter, the seeds are underground, alive but unseen.

❄️Winter is for gestation, not performance.

It’s a season for rest, quiet inner work, deep nourishment, and trust.

You don’t need to tick all the boxes right now. 🤗

Plant the seeds. Tend to them gently.

🌱Spring, summer and autumn will do the rest.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and feel heavy in the Winter months, you may find my upcoming post on seasonal depression insightful. 🩵

01/21/2026

🗣️When people say “it’ll be fine” in the face of your pain or grief, it’s often less about comforting you and more about regulating themselves 💡.

Sitting with another person’s pain requires:

👉Tolerating uncertainty

👉Feeling helpless without fixing

👉Brushing up against one’s own unprocessed grief

So reassurance can become a way to move the pain away, quickly.

⚡From a nervous-system perspective, this is a threat response: Pain in another activates our own limbic system.

The body seeks resolution.

Words like “it’ll be okay” function as a fast discharge, not attunement.

But pain doesn’t need optimism. It needs presence.

Grief especially lives outside timelines and solutions.

When it’s met with premature reassurance, the implicit message can be:

Don’t feel this

Move on

Your pain is too much to be with

Which often deepens loneliness.

This is where many people struggle: they were taught that love means fixing, soothing, or making things better, rather than staying. ⏸️

Sometimes “it’ll be fine” is not reassurance — it’s avoidance dressed up as kindness.

01/19/2026

👉Rattling does not equal truth or depth.

Being shaken doesn’t mean something is wise, accurate, or even important.

It often just means it hit a threat or attachment circuit (belonging, safety, identity). 🩵

If this resonates, you might try one small experiment this week:

💡Notice what your body does before, during, and after you scroll.

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