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Homecoming Reflections
Reflective writings exploring lived nervous-system responses as they unfold in everyday life — moments of Fight, Flight, Freeze, and other survival patterns, met with awareness, embodiment, and care.
Track-15 CONTRIBUTE: From Lived Coherence
Fifteen lived encounters became clarity. Contribution as coherence — not performance, but embodied understanding.
Grace Yap-Kirk
1 hour 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 hours 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
3 hours 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
2 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
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
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