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Track-15 CONTRIBUTE: From Lived Coherence
Fifteen lived encounters became clarity. Contribution as coherence — not performance, but embodied understanding.
Grace Yap-Kirk
2 days ago1 min read


Track-11 RECONSOLIDATE: When Love and Fear Become Fused
Early love and fear can fuse under stress. Reconsolidation gently updates old emotional pairings.
Grace Yap-Kirk
2 days ago1 min read


Track-10 REGULATE: When the Load Builds
Allostatic load builds quietly. Regulation begins with noticing subtle misalignment across mind, body, soul, and spirit.
Grace Yap-Kirk
2 days ago1 min read


Track-3 FLOAT: Space to Breathe
Float isn’t necessarily dissociation. It can be reducing sensory or relational input to restore presence.
Grace Yap-Kirk
4 days ago2 min read


Track-13 EMBODY: When Different Parts Take the Lead
When Tender Heart, Protector, Child and Achiever rotate through one experience, EMBODY helps restore grounded self-leadership.
Grace Yap-Kirk
5 days ago2 min read


Track-6 REPEAT: When the Carousel Starts
When obligation meets capacity, the mind replays. A reflection on Repeat, inner conflict, and learning to trust the body.
Grace Yap-Kirk
5 days ago3 min read


Track-9 RECOGNISE: Seeing Clearly Without Taking the Blame
How Good Girl conditioning fuels projection and self-blame — and how pausing restores clear, grounded perception.
Grace Yap-Kirk
5 days ago2 min read


Track-7 LOOP: The Non-Conscious Strategy Beneath a Trigger
Triggers follow a non-conscious VAKOG strategy. When we map the pattern, repetition can loosen.
Grace Yap-Kirk
5 days ago3 min read


Track-2 FLIGHT: Stepping Away, Not Running
A first-person reflection on Flight as an involuntary nervous-system response — stepping away not from fear, but from limited capacity befor
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 142 min read


Track-1 FIGHT: When Anger is the Return of Agency
A first-person reflection on Fight as a nervous-system response, where anger emerges as the return of agency after prolonged accommodation.
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 143 min read


Track-14 EXPAND: When Expansion Is Not What It Seems
A reflective piece on EXPAND, exploring how awareness widens beyond survival patterns, allowing perspective, choice, and space to emerge.
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 132 min read


Track-5 FAWN: Treading on Eggshells
A reflective piece on FAWN, exploring how the nervous system prioritises harmony and connection, often at the cost of one’s own needs.
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 122 min read


Track-4: When Grief Shows Up as FREEZE Fog, Not Tears
A reflective piece on FREEZE, exploring how action suspends when the nervous system becomes overwhelmed and experience turns foggy or stalle
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 122 min read


Track-8 AWAKEN: Awareness is Attunement
A reflective piece on AWAKEN, exploring the moment awareness returns and experience becomes clearer, more present, and newly felt.
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 122 min read


Track-12 INTEGRATE: When the Seasons Shift from Ground to Sea
A reflective piece on INTEGRATE, exploring how disparate inner states are held together, allowing rhythm, continuity, and coherence to retur
Grace Yap-Kirk
Feb 32 min read


The Art of Coming Back
Returning to self is often quiet. A reflection on embodied awareness, regulation, and integrative return.
Grace Yap-Kirk
Aug 2, 20254 min read


My Tree remains
“My Tree remains” 18 July 2022 crossroads of million possibilities dreams and hopes of anguish extinguished sun filtering through the...
blkirkgy
Jul 18, 20222 min read


Upside Down World
Many thanks to my beautiful new writing group this morning, writing with non-dorminant hand evoked a fiery inspiration to share this...
blkirkgy
Feb 3, 20221 min read


Old Stuff Anew
Spring-cleaning time. Took the old stuff out of the e-cupboard and brushed the dust from my old gallery e-shop. Never thought I would...
blkirkgy
Jan 25, 20221 min read


Knowing God beyond print & talk
NEW! Starting from Feb 2022. A series of online facilitated retreat for personal embodied exploration of the 99 Names of God through...
blkirkgy
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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