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How Shame Lives in Your Body | Somatic Healing Explained
Discover how shame wires itself into your posture, breath, and nervous system as a survival response and how somatic healing can help you reclaim your voice, power, and boundaries.
Four Key Polyvagal Lessons for Trauma Healing & Nervous System Health
You'll learn how your nervous system shapes your emotions, behaviors, and sense of safety. Discover how polyvagal wisdom can support resilience, emotional balance, and healthier relationships.
Why You Shut Down Under Stress | Shame, Freeze & Nervous System Healing
In this video you will discover why stress or shame can make you shut down, go blank, or feel unable to speak up. Most importantly, you'll see how thawing the freeze state opens the door to healthy anger, grief, and true self-compassion.
Shame vs Guilt Explained | How to Tell the Difference
Discover how shame patterns begin in childhood, how they live in the nervous system, and why toxic shame silently shapes your relationships and self-worth. You'll also learn how guilt, unlike shame, can actually create connection instead of isolation and help you reclaim your self-worth.
Guided Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release Online Session
This guided breathwork session supports you using the core BBTRS principles of breath, movement, touch, and sound.
Reacting to Now or to Memory? Understanding Trauma & Procedural Memory
Discover why your nervous system often responds to past events instead of the present, how trauma patterns become automatic and body-based, and how these responses show up in daily life and relationships.
Reclaiming Healthy Anger | Trauma, Shame & Nervous System Healing
Learn the difference between toxic anger and healthy anger, how trauma and shame suppress our natural protective instincts, and why reclaiming anger is essential for nervous system regulation, authentic relationships, and self-worth.
Why Shame Makes You Blame Yourself | Shame & Self-Worth Recovery
In this video you will discover why so many people take the blame even when it isn't their fault. If you've ever thought "It's my fault," this video will help you see the deeper truth: you are not shameful.
Nervous System Healing for Trauma Recovery | From Surviving to Thriving
In this interview from the Beyond Functional Medicine Summit, I explore how to move from surviving to thriving by understanding and working with the nervous system.
Gentle Guided BBTRS Session
A recording of a session I guided on February 21, 2021 - this session focuses on self-compassion and connecting to yourself.
4 Orientation Techniques to Calm Your Nervous System
I'll walk you through four powerful orientation techniques that can bring grounding, calmness, and presence to your body. These somatic practices are simple yet deeply effective in reducing stress and fostering resilience.
Guided BBTRS Breathwork Session: Full Body Release from Crown to Root
Your body holds patterns of tension that talk can't always reach — in your jaw, your throat, your heart, your belly, your pelvis. This guided BioDynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release breathwork session moves through all of it.
It's been a few years since I last posted a full guided breathwork session, and I'm very happy to offer a recording from a 75-minute online group session I've recently led. Follow along as I guide you through a full-body biodynamic breathwork practice — from crown to root — using the six elements of BBTRS: conscious connected breathing, touch, conscious emotional expression, movement, sound, and meditation.
No prior experience needed. All you need is somewhere to sit.
📌 Want to dive more into body-based healing?
Access my FREE Trauma Healing Resource page here:
👉 https://www.jennifermckeever.com/resources/
IMPORTANT:
Please listen to your body throughout the session and move at your own pace. This practice is not a substitute for medical or psychological care. If you have significant mental or physical health concerns, consult a qualified healthcare provider before engaging in breathwork practices.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome
2:30 The 6 elements of BBTRS explained
11:00 Finding your resource — body scan to begin
14:10 Conscious connected breathing starts
16:00 First wave: head, eyes, forehead
18:30 Jaw and throat — the gateway of expression
23:10 Throat chakra, voice, toning
35:20 Second wave: heart center, chest, upper back
45:30 Diaphragm, belly, solar plexus
54:30 Third wave: pelvis, root chakra, legs
1:06:40 Return to resource
1:08:10 Closing meditation
1:13:30 Coming back into the room
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ABOUT BBTRS
Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System (BBTRS) is a body-based approach that uses breath, touch, movement, sound, emotional expression, and meditation to release stored tension and trauma from the body. Unlike breathwork systems that push for intensity, BBTRS works at the pace of your nervous system — building capacity slowly, with pendulation between activation and resource.
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Jennifer McKeever is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and somatic psychotherapist based in Vancouver, BC, and a faculty member of the BBTRS Institute. She has been teaching BBTRS trainings since 2018.
🌐 Website: jennifermckeever.com
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What Freeze and Dissociation Actually Are (And What Reaches Them)
If you've been working on your trauma for a while and something still isn't moving — this video is probably about why.
In this video I cover four things most people don't fully understand about freeze and dissociation — including why so many people do years of therapy or self-work and still find themselves shutting down, going blank, or disappearing in the moments that matter most.
What we cover:
00:00 Why You Still Feel Stuck
01:08 Freeze vs Dissociation
03:05 How Dissociation Develops
05:21 The Invisible Survival Response
07:42 What Actually Helps Heal
08:22 Embodied Awareness and Contact
09:24 Healing Through Relationship
10:59 How to Come Home to Yourself
How to work or train with me: https://www.jennifermckeever.com/all-events/
This video is for educational purposes and reflects my experience as a trauma therapist and educator. It is not a substitute for personal therapy or medical advice. If you are experiencing significant distress, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional.
#dissociation #freeze #traumahealing #nervoussystem #somatichealing #traumarecovery #embodiedhealing #polyvagaltheory #attachmenttrauma #childhoodtrauma #PTSD #traumainformed #mentalhealth #somaticexperiencing #Pathretreats
Why You’re Attracted to Emotionally Unavailable People (It’s Not What You Think)
Why do emotionally unavailable people feel like such strong chemistry — even when you know better?
In this video, I explore what's really happening when that kind of attraction takes over: why it feels so compelling, where it comes from, and — most importantly — how it actually begins to change.
This isn't just psychology. It's about the nervous system, early attachment, and the deeper work of bringing awareness into the places where the pattern lives.
What's covered:
• Why attraction starts in the nervous system — not the thinking mind
• How implicit memory shapes who feels like "chemistry"
• The role of early attachment in wiring these patterns
• Why insight alone doesn't change the pull — and what does
• The difference between understanding a pattern and actually transforming it
If you keep finding yourself drawn to people who can't quite meet you — this one is for you.
To find out more about Path of Love, visit: https://www.jennifermckeever.com/all-events/path-of-love/
Connect with me:
https://www.instagram.com/traumatotrust/
https://www.facebook.com/fromtraumatotrust
Medical Disclaimer:
This content is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.
#emotionallyunavailable #anxiousattachmentstyle #nervoussystemhealing #relationshippatterns #traumaandhealing
Understanding Your Trauma Isn’t Healing It (Here’s Why)
If you’ve ever understood your trauma but still felt stuck in the same shame, attachment, or relationship patterns — this video is for you
You can know exactly why you shut down.
You can trace your inner critic back to childhood.
You can explain your attachment patterns beautifully.
And still feel caught.
In this video, I break down 5 science-backed reasons why understanding your trauma doesn’t automatically rewire your nervous system — and what actually leads to lasting transformation.
We’ll explore:
• The difference between implicit (procedural) memory and explicit memory
• How early attachment experiences shape the right brain and autonomic nervous system
• Why the brain prioritizes familiarity over growth (predictive processing)
• What research on memory reconsolidation tells us about real change
• Why shadow work requires lived relational experience, not just awareness
Drawing on decades of trauma research and the work of Allan Schore, Daniel Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, and predictive processing theory, I explain why trauma patterns are stored in the body — and why healing must involve somatic work, relational safety, and new emotional experience.
If you’ve felt the exhaustion of “I understand it… so why am I still doing it?” — this will help you stop blaming yourself and start understanding how transformation actually happens.
Ways to work with me: https://www.jennifermckeever.com/all-events/
Medical Disclaimer:
This content is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.
#traumahealing #nervoussystem #somatictherapy #attachmenthealing #shame #embodiment #shadowwork #relationalhealing #psychology #memoryreconsolidation
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