NEUROCEPTION: Our Personal TSA Agent. How we feel whether or not a person/place is safe/unsafe. This is the neural process of evaluation of risk without awareness.
In the first class of The Reboot, students will go through an experiential process to learn about Neuroception. In working with clients individually, they are taught about neuroception in the first couple of sessions.
Neuroception is what creates an experience of a person, place, or thing as being safe, dangerous, or a life threat.
And since neuroception is beyond our conscious awareness- it creates unconscious trauma responses of fight, flight, fawn/feign, freeze, collapse/immobilize.
Humans are always on a quest for safety and most of it happens unconsciously. We search the environment and inside our body to know if people/places are safe/unsafe.
Neuroception is greatly influenced by past events. Thus, with a history of trauma and chronic stress we feel less safe in the world, more anxious, more depressed, more dissociated, more numb, and our mind-body-spirit suffers symptoms (classified as diseases and disorders in the medical model).
However, we can heal through listening to our bodies, through mapping our unconscious trauma responses, through co-regulation, resourcing safety cues, and resolving trauma.
-Shannon, The Integrative Counselor
If a group is not your thing- you are invited to consider working with me locally or virtually. Scheduling individual sessions are easy and you can do it at the same link above or my bio link.
All of my services are Trauma-Informed, with Polyvagal, Somatics, and root-cause Integrative Medicine as modalities. Even with energy healing, or spiritual integration, or psychedelic integration services: I will always be guiding you back to your Inner Healer in a Trauma-Informed Way. Because You Are Your Own Guru!
-Shannon (AKA “The Integrative Counselor”)