Jake White Healing LLC

11/05/2026

Grounding is used as an anchor back to our sensations. We don’t ground to get rid of feelings we ground ourselves to provide stability to our nervous system.

As I ground I like to think about the earth holding my sensations with me. I also think about all the other people in my life that also feel stress, grief, overwhelm, shame, or rejection. That feelings can be experienced with the love and support of others.

Grounding brings stability and can help us to find safety in the midst of stress.

Try this out and let me know how it goes in the comments.

11/04/2026

What we notice is a somatic experiencing session can be quite amazing and eye opening. It’s like little worlds of experience live in the most mundane and overlooked parts of our experience.

A hand pushing something to the side, a sudden retraction of posture, or developing a sudden numb barrier to the world are ways that the nervous system relates to trauma.

They represent how the nervous system moves and contorts in relation to past events. Where we still hold the memory of past events and still manage this energy.

When we observe these patterns they begin to change, move, and come to life. They are able to be felt and processed in our physical body with awareness and consciousness.

A somatic experiencing practitioner helps to bring focus and attention to the body to support your awareness and attention. A somatic experiencing practitioner helps you notice how the nervous system moves and regulates as we process the patterns of fight or flight.

Capacity comes through this observation and finding ways to connect with ourselves even when the moment is challenging and difficult. We can then spend more energy supporting ourselves rather than suppressing our feelings and emotions.

In somatic experiencing we help clients to experience how trauma can lead back to the body for healing and regulation.

11/03/2026

We often notice an emotion and wonder what to do with it, how to fix it, or we try to figure out what caused the emotion. In other words our mind kicks in to get us away from a feeling that we do not know how to be with.

I think it’s important to define where the emotion is felt in the body. Our mind wants to label and define things to create certainty. By locating the emotion we are engaging our mind to help us feel our emotions.

I can locate sadness in my throat and chest. I can then bring attention to this area of the body and feel the tightness or the tears in my eyes. I am bringing the emotion back into my body and I am also helping my mind settle enough for my emotions to be felt.

I can then focus of being present for this part of my body and stay with a sensation for a longer period of time. Through this practice I am building capacity and I am getting used to processing emotions.

Healing is a process of bringing emotions and sensations back into our body to be felt in the present moment.

10/29/2026

Let your body move and flow with life experience. Give it the space and permission to react to life. Your body is designed to process life experiences. Through its tensing, tightening, shaking, and collapsing its responding to life and taking care of you.

10/28/2026

I have found myself being more patient and willing to be with periods of difficulty because I know that they will pass.

The parasympathetic is there waiting for me and will emerge to regulate my nervous system. It’s just that in this moment the sympathetic response is more dominant and the body needs to protect itself.

A lot of capacity comes from patience and trusting the nervous system to take care of us. Stress will move, sensations will pass, and safety will emerge. We don’t have control over the autonomic nervous system but we can be more observant of the bodies sensations. I am so happy that I now trust my nervous system and have a solid foundation for following my felt sense.

I hope this post gives you a little encouragement if you’re going through a difficult period.

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

Fear can get so big so fast. I have seen people in a chronic state of fear that grips their whole nervous system. Fear needs to be uncoupled from the thoughts and images that feed our sensations of fear.

We have to disconnect the sensations from the thoughts and images. We can do this by noticing the sensation of fear in the body. We can notice a tightness in our stomach or shaking in the chest. We can place a hand on the fear and say out loud, “ I feel the sensation of fear and it’s okay to be with this sensation.” This will help us feel more grounded with the fear and will help to mitigate the vortex of sensations being linked to thoughts and images.

Notice what changes when fear is processed as a sensation in the body.

10/22/2026

Why would we think that being with the overwhelming recall of traumatic memory would lead to healing. Your nervous system is not designed to stay in traumatic situations it’s designed to escape from them. Your nervous system is designed to push away or run from traumatic events.

When we work with the nervous we are trying to reclaim the energy that wanted to protect us to sustain life. The freeze response suppresses the activated energy of the nervous system that would have mobilized to protect us.

Tensing, tightening, pushing, running, and shaking are ways that the nervous system still tries to protect itself. These alive and active sensations are what we need to focus on in order to heal because they bring us back into aliveness and freedom from trauma.

Our goal is to get away from trauma not bring the nervous system back to the events that hurt us.

10/21/2026

Let’s try to work with our nervous systems in the midst of panic, fear, and overwhelm. Let’s start to see these reactions as completely necessary in relation to threat. Sometimes this threat is present and sometimes the nervous system is reacting based on past memories.

When we engage with these necessary responses in the present it gives space for the nervous system to complete old patterns. It also gives space for more safety and engagement in the present moment.

Don’t treat overwhelm or anxiety as a problem. See it as a necessary response that we can support and observe in the body.

10/20/2026

I have been looking at my life a little bit differently. I am starting to see the ways life is engaging with me and inviting me to engage.

I have recently been coaching a U9 soccer team. The boys on the team are pretty wild and rambunctious. I often feel a little bit anxious on the field. Soccer balls are flying around, kids are lying on the grass, and they are grabbing and pushing each other.

Sometimes, it is really important for me to put aside the need to control and meet them where they are.

In one situation, we all put our hands together to break out for the day. The boys were grabbing each other’s hands and trying to be the one on top. Others were pushing all of our hands toward the ground. This spiked my anxiety a little, and I felt tense and tight. I wanted to say, “Can’t we just put our hands together without acting crazy?” I realized that I was starting to try to control the situation and was about to correct them.

Instead, I started trying to put my hands on top of theirs, and it became a game. One of the boys looked me in the eyes and said, “You stepped on my foot in practice, and I said to all the boys, ‘I bet when we break out of practice, I can stomp on all of your feet.’” We quickly broke out, and I started chasing them as they ran around screaming and laughing.

This moment was special because I took a moment to listen to their nervous systems. I let them lead me for a second, and I responded to them with a little bit of playfulness and spontaneity. I felt a sense of playfulness, excitement, laughter, and closeness.

This moment soothed my anxiety, and I felt more settled and calm throughout my body. This moment was an example of letting life engage with me. It was about letting these little nervous systems tell me how to respond in the moment.

I think life wants me to find more playfulness, spontaneity, and connection.