Feeling Safe & Standing Strong
Feeling tense, reactive, or like you're holding more than you have to carry? You're not imagining it, and you're not alone.
If you're looking for practical, plain English tools to understand your nervous system, have kinder conversations with yourself and others, and feel a little steadier in your own skin, you're in the right place.
Each episode gives you body-based practices, real conversations, and simple frameworks you can reach for in the moments that matter. In all relationships, not just at work and in the quiet moments when you just need to settle. No jargon, no pressure, nothing that requires a psychology degree to use.
The more you listen, the more you'll find these tools showing up naturally, when a conversation gets hard, when the day gets heavy, when you need to come back to yourself.
Hosted by Bronwyn Clee, Trauma Responsive Psychosocial Coach and Educator and Co-Founder of The Institute of Hope, in partnership with Protective Behaviours International.
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Feeling Safe & Standing Strong
Episode 2: Listening to the Body's Alarms
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🎙 Episode 2: Listening to the Body's Alarms
Our bodies are designed to keep us safe, and it often sounds the alarm before our mind fully understands what’s happening. This episode explores how the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses show up in our daily lives.
We’ll break down the nervous system in simple language: it’s like a smoke alarm that sometimes gets too sensitive. By learning to recognise when our body’s alarm is ringing, we can choose how to respond instead of being swept away by stress.
You’ll also hear more about Polyvagal Theory — the science that explains how our body moves between states of safety, danger, and shutdown. Don’t worry, we’ll keep it practical and focused on what matters: how it feels in our body and what we can do about it.
Somatic Practices in this episode: **Somatic practices are simple ways of listening to and supporting our body so that we can respond with more clarity and care.
- âś‹ Orienting Practice: gently scanning your environment to reassure your nervous system.
- đź‘Ł 5-4-3-2-1 Touch Point Reset: using your senses to ground yourself in the present
By the end of this episode, you’ll understand your body’s alarm system in a different light and have two simple tools to help reset it.
✨ Feeling Safe Standing Strong is brought to you by The Institute of Hope (IOH) in collaboration with Protective Behaviours International (PBI).
🌏 I have the privilege of living, loving, learning, and creating on Larrakia Country and I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
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