Finding Safety in Your Body: Somatic Experiencing for Body Image and Eating Disorders
In this piece, Vancouver based Anna MacGillivray, RCC and Somatic Experiencing–trained clinician, explores how body image and eating struggles often begin in the nervous system, and how Somatic Experiencing can help people reconnect with their bodies, rebuild safety, and gently shift long-standing patterns of shame and disconnection.
Somatic Experiencing and Addiction: Healing the Nervous System in Recovery
Addiction is often misunderstood as a battle of willpower, but Somatic Experiencing® shows us that many addictive patterns begin in the nervous system’s attempts to survive overwhelming stress, pain, or disconnection. In this compassionate exploration, Nimble Counselling founder Anna MacGillivray, RCC, explains how body-based healing can help people in Vancouver and across B.C. find safety, regulation, and genuine relief from compulsive cycles. This gentle, trauma-informed approach invites us to understand addiction not as a flaw, but as a survival strategy that can be unwound with support.