21/08/2025
🌊✨ Glimmers: The Small Things That Light Us Up ✨🌊
In trauma therapy, there can be a lot of talk about triggers - those cues that activate our stress response. But there’s a quieter, gentler concept that’s just as powerful: glimmers.
Glimmers are the subtle cues that signal safety to our nervous system. They’re tiny moments of connection, calm, or beauty that help us return to regulation … to ourselves.
For me, one of my favorite glimmers is the sound of seagulls. I always hear them during savasana at the end of my yoga practice. That moment, lying down, grounded on my mat, my teacher’s soothing voice guiding me, combined with the distant cry of seagulls overhead … it’s become an anchor, a sensory cue that tells my body:
You’re safe. You can soften. You’re here.
Glimmers can be anything: the smell of coffee, a warm or a cool breeze, the way the light hits the leaves on a tree.
They’re small moments, but they matter, and it matters to notice them, especially on the easier days, because the more we practice the easier it gets, to notice these things on the harder days.
✨ What are your glimmers? What sounds, sights, or sensations remind you that you’re okay?
