Safe Enough to Choose
Nervous System Therapy for Trauma
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You already know this but trauma takes away choice. You experience trauma in the anger and sadness that doesn't belong to you. The exhaustion that sleep can’t change. The recurring thought that asks “will I ever feel like myself again?”
What nobody tells you is how to recover when your own biology is threatening your physical and emotional experience.
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The autonomic nervous system (ANS) has always made recovery happen beneath your conscious awareness.
After trauma, ANS got stuck thinking it has to survive every moment. This means ANS burns tons of energy that is supposed to help you recover. ANS wants to survive easiest, so after traumatic experiences, symptoms exist to redirect you to safe engagements.
The sensorimotor system is the brain body connection we overlook. Sensation and movement speak to the brain better than any thought can. This is the architecture I’ve used to help so many recover from trauma, and it’s not new.
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After my own moderate/severe TBI, I felt broken, lost and depressed. I recovered when I started responding to my intolerable symptoms with biological safety.
Trauma closes access to choice in these moments. Respond-ability is the practice of rebuilding it.
I help people rebuild their internal world and external experiences via choice the autonomic nervous system, sensorymotor function, and in safe relationship.
Good Mood Method
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Clinically treated Music reaches the autonomic nervous system through the auditory system. The Vagus Nerve is activated and the brain is biased in safety.
The neural pathways that have been reading the world as threatening receive new information. The body does not need to be convinced. This is how you show your nervous system that it can listen to more than just threat.
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The sensorimotor system needs proof that you’re safe. Foundation Training works in the fascia and spine, decompressing the tissue that has been bracing since the incident.
When the spine moves and the breath returns to the body, the sensorimotor system sends new information to the brain. The body moving freely is the brain receiving evidence that it is ready to live as you again.
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When the sensorymotor system has given safety to ANS, the decision-making place opens.
Recovery is about slowly reopening this place. Between what happens and how you respond to it matters. Viktor Frankl defines it. Good Mood Method helps you find it.
You can’t think your way out of trauma. The body has to feel safe enough to give you the choice to exit. When it does, you choose.
Polyvagal Practitioner, Foundation Training Specialist, Trauma-Informed Somatic Coach, Logotherapy, Intl. Health Development BA Hons.
Your Guide, Gilad
Nervous System Therapy Changes Lives
“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the work that you do! Your breath and movement practice has truly transformed my life, my recovery and empowered me to trust my body once again!
I was able to hit a tennis ball with my dad this past weekend with minimal symptoms and it felt amazing! It’s something I never thought I’d be able to do again and it brings tears to my heart to slowly reconnect to parts of myself I thought were lost forever!
Working with you has been a major blessing and I am beyond grateful! Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏.”
— Karmen (PTSD, POTS, Dysautonomia)
“I feel like the nervous system element is the biggest missing piece in concussion recovery! I am so grateful to have found you!”
— Jenna (TBI, PCS, Fibromyalgia, Severe Depression)
"Hiii Gilad.. I'm reflecting on my year & you were a VIP of my 2024! You were such a steady and encouraging support, like a real rock in my recovery process!! I felt held and seen and listened to and it made all the difference on that exciting journey I was on. And now officially a few months after totally feeling better I can say my nervous system is a lot more wise than a year ago!"
— Ellie (TBI, Vertigo, Anxiety)