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 3: Learning the Language our Bodies Speak
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🎙 Episode 3: Learning the Language our Bodies Speak
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is stop, breathe, and give ourselves permission to pause. This episode is about slowing down enough to notice what we need.
We’ll explore the idea of self-regulation, which means learning to guide our own emotions and body responses back toward balance. It’s not about avoiding stress but about finding ways to return to steadiness when stress happens.
Somatic practices in this episode:
- 🧘 Hand-on-Heart with Statement: placing your hand on your chest while speaking a grounding phrase.
- 🪑 Seated Micro-Movements — small, gentle shifts to release tension and reconnect with your body
By the end, you’ll know how pausing is a powerful act of self-care, not a weakness.
✨ 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.
🔗 Find out more at www.theinstituteofhope.com.au or www.protectivebehavioursinternational.net
