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VIDEO: Healing can only take place in Safety

Jan Normanton • Jun 08, 2022

Safety IS the treatment, to return home, to our innate body wisdom and true self

See how this deer interacted with me… we eye gazed for a minute before I thought to record this. I get the sense she felt safe around me.



Physical safety is crucial for my clients to be able to relax and settle into their body in order for any healing to take place.

The environment is paramount to setting a scene of safety, for all my clients and in particular those receiving Trauma Discharge Therapy.

My room is quiet, private, comfortable and welcoming, setting the scene for safety.

Anything discussed is confidential and remains so always.

I undertake a detailed consultation prior to treatments to understand your situation and needs.

That said, disclosure of traumatic events and circumstances is not required to facilitate trauma release.

I am relaxed, open minded and open hearted. I ensure my nervous system is regulated, with deep breathing and grounding techniques. This ensures I am fully present for you and able to hold the space for you and whatever occurs during your session.

As we discuss your needs, we begin to connect and I remain grounded in my sense of self whilst attuning and connecting with you in the non physical, energetic sense.

Mirror neurons mean we are unconsciously clocking each other, sizing each other up, assessing the situation. Your body may start to mirror my unspoken body language and begin to slow down, relax.

You may notice yourself breathing easier and deeper, coming into presence, feeling more grounded. Your nervous system is adjusting to the new environment and recalibrating. You can leave everything else outside the door. For the next few hours, please know you are safe to settle, to be heard, witnessed, validated, held.


Whilst I would wish for no one to experience trauma in their lifetime, I am at peace with my own traumas through consistent and committed therapeutic practices.

I know from experience, Trauma Discharge Therapy worked for me, among other practices, and it is therefore an honour to bring this work to you in the hope it can help you too.

VIDEO: We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
Can you cultivate a rest state within by staying present, focusing on what is, noticing the difference between the stressful internal chatter and the actual state of your present peaceful reality. Come into presence and get anchored in the here and now, within the body. The mind takes us away from our body and truth – that all we have really is the here and now.  We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace.

VIDEO: Imagine Life without Procrastination, Rumination and Catastrophisation!

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
For me, the only true way to leave that monkey mind, to leave the procrastination, the rumination, the catastrophization of our mind is to come into the body. This is my truth, when I come home to myself and drop into my body; this is the fact of the matter - right now I am ensconced in nature, I can hear the babbling brook, I can feel the beautiful warm air on my skin, I feel expansive, free, liberated; I’m moving my body and I feel well. I’m breathing deeply, oxygenating my whole body with freshly oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood and getting out of breath. I feel fantastic. That is my truth in the here and now.  If I choose to stay in my mind, I can get very stressed and generate an entire stress state in my body. When I choose to drop into the body and stay present with what it is, my truth at this very moment, I get to experience something wonderful.

VIDEO: How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

By Jan Normanton • 12 Nov, 2023
There are so many ways we self abandon. And one way to stop ourselves from doing this is to commit to self care with our time, intention, attunement, focus. In this way we replenish ourselves, fill our boots in whatever way moves us, inspires us, enables us to feel alive! Embodiment is to be at home in the body, to stay true to ourselves versus self abandonment.  In remaining embodied, we are present to what is, to life in that very moment, rather than drifting off into the future or past. It is here that we can fully and completely experience life, tuning into all our senses and feeling every sensation. I find myself in nature, immersed in nature. Over and over again. I come home to myself. How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

VIDEO: Is this serving me?

By Jan Normanton • 07 Nov, 2023
This season I’m letting go; letting go of thoughts, mindsets, beliefs that no longer serve me. I’m decluttering, clearing out – physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. Creating space, for expansion, for allowing new beliefs, mindsets, thoughts and new feelings come in.  I’m clearing the decks and every day I ask the question “is this serving me?” - is this thought, this mindset serving me, and if the answer is no, I let it go - with grace, with love, with compassion and I create expansion in my body, space in my mind; I create and grow and nurture resilience to support me to go forth.

VIDEO: There is enough time!

By Jan Normanton • 02 Nov, 2023
There is enough time! Try this as a mantra to yourself to soothe your nervous system and return to steady state.  This together with belly breathing and extending the exhalation is a quick, easy way to get out of the stress state and into the rest state.

VIDEO: Our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy!

By Jan Normanton • 31 Oct, 2023
Our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy! We get to choose. What we focus on grows, amplifies, so be careful what you think about! We have agency, when we can catch our thoughts, recognise that it’s our thoughts that determine how we feel inside and we can challenge or gently be curious about these thoughts and instead attune to what’s going on in the here and now, in the body. This is our reality, what’s really happening in the here and now, in our body.  So when we drop into the body, breathe into the belly, exhale for longer than we inhale, ground ourselves - then we can come into the here and now and recognise what is true for ourselves in the here and now; are we safe in the here and now, or have our feelings been running amok and creating the physiology of stress rather than rest. When we come into the body, come into our truth - we can come to that beautiful state of rest instead.

VIDEO: Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety and wellbeing

By Jan Normanton • 26 Oct, 2023
How safe and soothed do you feel in your mind right now? Ask the question about your body. How safe and soothed do you feel in your body right now? You might notice a vast difference. Notice how the mind takes us away from the present tense and your place of safety, with its constant chatter and disappearing into the past or future, into the dramas of daily life. Drop into that safe space of your body in the here and now instead.  Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety, wellbeing.

VIDEO: our thoughts drive our physiology and our physiology drives our thoughts

By Jan Normanton • 24 Oct, 2023
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VIDEO: Mindful Moments - the Elixir of Life!

By Jan Normanton • 19 Oct, 2023
MINDFUL MOMENTS….How many of these do you allow yourself in your day? A chance to come into presence. To notice your surroundings. To notice yourself. How do you feel. Can you come into presence and connect through your senses to the here and now and to yourself. Can you take some slow deep inhalations and longer exhalations. Then notice how you might feel differently now. I so hope you feel better for and coming into your present reality and for returning to your true self. 

VIDEO: Stay close to yourself and the present for greater agency

By Jan Normanton • 17 Oct, 2023
By choosing to come into my body and the present moment, I get to nourish and nurture myself and replenish my spirit. In doing so my resilience increases so that, as and when challenges arise, I am better placed to deal with them. I generate a better foundation for my future self in choosing to stay close to myself and be present.
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