Dr. Bianca Baciu

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Dr. Bianca Baciu

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

12/26/2025

What does “regulation” actually mean?

Regulation doesn’t mean calm.

It means:

👉Flexible activation (your system can “rev up” when necessary, without getting stuck there).

👉Efficient mobilization (you can access energy, emotion, or action when needed, without burning out or collapsing).

👉Reliable return to baseline (after stress or intensity, your body knows how to come back to steadiness).

Flat is not regulated.

Hyper is not regulated.

Responsive is.

From a somatic perspective, regulation is not about suppressing emotion or striving for a state of constant peace.

It’s about adaptability — the nervous system’s ability to meet life as it is, respond appropriately, and recover without getting trapped in survival states💫.

12/24/2025

🍽️Family dinners don’t trigger you because you’re immature.

They trigger you because your nervous system remembers being small 👇.

One reason developmental trauma survivors struggle with small talk is that in many families, superficial conversation wasn’t harmless — it was the official strategy for avoiding anything painful, real, or confusing.

👉When hurt is never named, when tension hums under the surface, and everyone talks about the weather instead of what’s actually happening, the nervous system learns fast that:

Small talk equals emotional avoidance 🙅‍♀️

Depth is danger ⚠️

Authenticity is too much for others 🚫

So later in life, small talk feels hollow, draining, or even irritating.

🔍The system is looking for what was once missing — truth, nuance, emotional presence.

It’s not that we're “bad at small talk.”

💡It’s that our bodies remember the cost of pretending everything was fine.

You don't fix the nervous system, you sit with it.

🎄Even during Christmas dinner, presence works better than pretending everything is fine. 🩵

Wishing you a rest-filled, present Christmas Eve 🤗.

12/22/2025

✈️On my recent flight to Cancun for the holidays with my kids, I couldn’t help but notice that no one just sits with themselves anymore.

There is so much activation that we do not consciously engage with:

Restless legs.

Darting, unfocused eyes.

Eating out of three bags of snacks at the same time.

Screens brought within eyelash-touching distance.

Lots of scratching and fidgeting.

Collapsed postures, abandoned chests and spines, limpness.

No judgement here, but I do wonder-

“What might happen if we had more presence in measurable ways”?

Safe travels. 🩵

12/19/2025

💡Are you present enough to notice what your body is communicating?

12/17/2025

🩵Thankful for the courage of clients who are willing to walk the path less travelled - especially after feeling as though they were out of options.

👉If you're curious about the “uncanny ability” Luc referenced in his testimonial - I shared more about this aspect of my work in my recent carousel series: “Prenatal Trauma & Psychic Abilities”. 🩵

12/15/2025

👉Betrayal trauma is one of the greatest triggers for dissociative responses.

A surrender of one's will and a loss of the "sense of self.”

💡Therapeutically, the way back to the sense of self is through reclaiming one's voice, through reclaiming one's anger.

If you can relate, I invite you to follow along as we explore how healing is possible through the body 🩵.

12/12/2025

👆These triggers don’t mean there's something wrong with you.

💡They mean your nervous system is loyal.

It learned how to keep you safe in environments where you weren’t free, supported, or allowed to be fully yourself.

👉Healing isn’t about forcing these responses to disappear.

It’s about slowly teaching your body:

🔹This moment is different.

🔹You’re safe now.

🔹You get to choose.

🩵

12/08/2025

👉Because when your nervous system spent every moment tracking micro-expression for survival,

💡Your childhood became a long internship in trauma therapy.

Your body learned to:

🔍Hyper-read the room

🌀Predict storms by the way someone takes their shoes off

📦Contain everyone else’s feelings

In somatic translation:

💫Your interoception became supernatural, while your boundaries ended up really flimsy.

And here you are - helping others feel safe, after growing up with a nervous system that never really did. 🩵

12/05/2025

👉As we move into the “holiday” season, for some of us, it feels like anything but.

The pressure we place on ourselves can increase.

The expectations of others can feel heavier.

Our patterns - especially people-pleasing - may become more pronounced.

We may find ourselves stretching beyond our capacity, physically, emotionally, or relationally.

This season can place those of us with unresolved trauma in environments that feel deeply triggering, and it can seem as though all the work we’ve done on ourselves is being tested.

💡Despite what we often see online, there is no single “mindset shift” or inspirational quote that can make these feelings disappear.

So instead, I invite you to notice 👇.

Notice how your body responds to certain places, people, or interactions.

Notice the protective impulses of both your mind and nervous system.

Notice any progress, however subtle, that has taken shape within you.

And most importantly, honour your capacity by allowing your body to guide your choices.

If this resonates, you may wish to save this post to revisit during the “holidays.” 🩵

12/03/2025

🤔It’s interesting to consider that our ancestors had to have this level of attunement with their environment in order to survive.

Is it possible we all have these innate abilities to sense things beyond the physical?

And that this level of attunement has become “dormant” as a result of our fast-paced, mind-based, comfort and convenience-driven way of life? 🤷‍♀️

12/01/2025

🤷‍♀️Can you relate to relying heavily on intuition to navigate life?

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