You are not one consistent age on the inside. Certain rooms can take a competent adult and, within seconds, return them to a much younger and smaller self. This talk is about the age you stopped — the specific developmental age your nervous system froze at during an early hard time, and how that exact age still runs parts of your adult life. The forty-year-old whose system is, in certain rooms, still nine. Being emotionally stuck at the age you were hurt is not immaturity — it is developmental arrest, and freezing a clock is a wise thing a small nervous system does to survive. Drawing on developmental trauma research, polyvagal theory, inner child work and Family Constellations, this hour shows you how to locate the age you stopped and how it runs your life from underneath, then moves into a fifteen-minute guided practice for meeting that age and bringing it home.

Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist. Sessions in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and online worldwide. blissfulevolution.com