Jake White Healing LLC

12/22/2025

We may logically understand that our fear-based thoughts are not real, but our body reacts as if the fear is real. We do not always understand that the fear is a signal from our body to our brain. Our brain then creates an autonomic response in order to produce stress hormones. This increases the threat level of the nervous system to mobilize more energy to protect us.

Fear comes from a visceral reaction that triggers the production of stress hormones. This is why we may logically understand that we are not in danger, yet our body is still responding to protect us.

Fear can be addressed by observing our thoughts, then bringing attention to the felt sense of our fear, and then slowing ourselves down and holding the fear with awareness. Instead of trying to rationalize why we should not be afraid, we can work on validating our fear and regulating our nervous system.
Through awareness of fear and moving toward our body, we give ourselves a practice. Over time, our body becomes the place we move toward for stability and safety. This comes from a relational process of acknowledging fear-based thoughts and addressing the places in the body where fear is held.

12/19/2025

A little insight into how we reinforce and validate the natural state of settling and ease in a clients nervous system. Validating that this is who we are and comes from consistently connecting with ourselves through our sensations.

You are your sense of ease, settling, and comfort in your body. This is your home that you can come back to.

12/18/2025

Let’s try to notice how self criticism lands in the body. Then let’s try to introduce more softness and slowness. For every harsh pattern there needs to be softening to allow the nervous system to release.

Softening is how the nervous system learns to adopt a new experience. Having more compassion, attunement to the body, and more time and space for our emotions.

When you feel harsh notice how this impacts your nervous system, slow down and be with yourself, and notice what changes in your nervous system.

This will help to reduce self criticism, tension, and restriction.

12/17/2025

Here is a helpful practice for your nervous system. In sessions we will often times check back in to our stress response that was present earlier in the appointment.

The client and I may notice more ease, opening, and lightening in the body. We may then bring attention to the parts of the body that felt threatened when we were discussing a situation of trauma and threat.

The client may notice that their physiology has changed. The throat that felt clenched may feel more open, the bracing through their shoulders may have settled, and the fist that was tight is now open.

This helps the client to learn to check back in with areas of stress once they feel more regulated. This helps to connect the parasympathetic nervous system with the patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.

This is one of the essential practices that we use in somatic experiencing. It builds more safety in the clients nervous system and helps them to notice how threat can change and shift toward safety in their body.

12/15/2025

In somatic experiencing we don’t initially go toward the overwhelm or response of fight, flight, and freeze. We will often times look for a pattern of regulation.

As we follow regulation we will then notice how this shifts the nervous system. Noticing how an opening in the hands may lead to a settling of a shoulder or lightening in the chest.

Through this approach we are following how the body moves out of traumatic stress and into the parasympathetic nervous system. We can then notice how the overwhelm and tension changes once we have a baseline of safety.

In somatic experiencing we look toward regulation and safety even when overwhelm seems to be all that is present for the client.

I hope this can give you a little spotlight into a somatic experiencing session. I also hope you can see the importance of focusing of safety rather than focusing all of your attention on stress and overwhelm.

12/09/2025

Here is a quick somatic experiencing technique. It helps us to learn to embody both positive and negative experiences. Learning to move through both with curiosity and acceptance.

One of the main goals of healing from trauma is connecting negative sensation to positive feelings and emotions. Watching as the nervous system moves into contraction and then eventually moves towards safety and expansion.

Try this exercise out and let us know what changes you observe in yourself. Let me know what you discover in the comments.

11/25/2025

11/20/2025

Here is an excise to connect sensations and emotions to our needs. The practice centers around bringing awareness to the body and then inviting in curiosity about our needs.

Over time we will get better at listening to our sensations as an indication of a need. For example a feeling of threat may need a stronger boundary or a vulnerable feeling may need our presence.

Try this out and let me know how it goes in the comments.