Regulation as Capacity Not Constant Calm with Rebekah Ballagh

About this episode

Ailey Jolie and Rebekah Ballagh discuss the gap between understanding personal patterns and achieving real change in the context of mental health and somatic coaching.

What if understanding your patterns is not the same as changing them? In this episode, I’m joined by Rebekah Ballagh, a counsellor, somatic and nervous system coach, and author, to explore the gap between insight and real change. The place where the mind understands, but the body does not yet feel safe enough to follow. Rebekah shares her experience with panic and illness, and how it revealed the limits of purely cognitive tools. We talk about intellectualising as a form of protection, and ex...

People in this episode

Host: Ailey Jolie

Guest: Rebekah Ballagh

Topics covered

• regulation
• nervous system
• somatic coaching
• mental health
• insight vs change

Keywords

• regulation
• nervous system
• panic
• cognitive tools
• mental health
• somatic coaching
• insight

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