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Reconnecting With Nature for Emotional Health and Stress Relief
Discover how reconnecting with nature can support emotional health, reduce stress, and restore balance. Through small, mindful moments — noticing the sky, the breeze, or your feet on the ground — you can bring calm and presence into daily life. Explore gentle ways to reconnect with yourself and the world around you.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Mar 85 min read


Mindful Sleep: Finding Calm Before Bed
Some days are heavy, and our inner critic rises. Mindful sleep isn’t about fixing or doing: it’s about allowing, letting go, and simply being. This reflection explores how mindful sleep, gentle self-talk, and presence can soothe the nervous system, helping you rest and wake renewed.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Feb 143 min read


Growing Emotional Strength in Everyday Moments
This article shares psychologically grounded techniques for building emotional strength and resilience, including mindful breathing, journaling, boundaries, and nervous system regulation. Written from a trauma-informed and somatic psychology perspective, it offers gentle support for navigating life’s ups and downs.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Jan 274 min read


The Tauranga Landslide: When the Ground Gives Way --- Finding Steadiness After Disaster Through a Somatic Experiencing® and Psychological Perspective
When natural disasters strike, the impact goes far beyond buildings and roads. Explore how the body, mind, and community respond, and discover practical strategies to find steadiness through Somatic Experiencing and psychological insight.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Jan 236 min read


Effective Emotional Regulation Strategies for a Balanced Life
Emotional regulation strategies offer a healthy way of relating to emotional experience. They support noticing what is present, making sense of feelings, and responding with greater steadiness rather than reactivity.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Jan 64 min read


Easing Anxiety Through Somatic Therapy: When the Body Speaks First
So often, healing begins not with words, but with noticing what’s happening in the body.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Dec 5, 20252 min read


Beyond thinking...
A reflective piece exploring the experience of dropping beneath the thinking mind — into the heart space, where the body holds a wisdom.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Oct 31, 20253 min read


How do I integrate Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) into my practice? Reflections of a psychologist
Curious about somatic therapy? Through three client vignettes, discover how Somatic Experiencing (SE) uses body awareness, movement, and nervous system cues to help release tension, ease worry, and bring clients into greater ease. This blog offers an invitational look at how small, embodied steps can support emotional balance and everyday resilience.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Oct 4, 202512 min read


Beyond Talk: Why Somatic Therapy Works
Discover how somatic therapy helps trauma and/or overwhelming stress heal from the body, restoring balance, resilience, and wellbeing beyond traditional talk therapy.
Carien Lubbe-De Beer
Aug 30, 20253 min read
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