Learning to Catch the Light: A Somatic Talk on Glimmers & the Opposite of a Trigger | Abi Beri

A talk on a word you probably don’t know but almost certainly need — glimmer. Coined by the polyvagal clinician Deb Dana as the exact opposite of a trigger. If your nervous system can be tripped into threat by a tiny cue, it can also be tipped into safety by an equally tiny one. A glimmer is a micro-moment of safety — a half-second flicker that tells the system: you’re okay right now. And they’re everywhere. You’ve just been trained not to see them.Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist, Family Constellation Facilitator and Nervous System Specialist based in Dublin, Ireland. In-person across Dublin, Naas, Newbridge and Kildare; online globally. Drawing on Deb Dana on glimmers, Stephen Porges on neuroception and polyvagal theory, Peter Levine on somatic experiencing, and Rick Hanson on how attention shapes the brain (Hardwiring Happiness, the HEAL model).Topics: what glimmers are; why you stopped seeing them (the negativity bias in threat-tuned systems); the recalibration of neuroception; going glimmer-hunting outside and inside the body (interoceptive glimmers); why this is NOT toxic positivity — the crucial clinical distinction; the contemplative dimension.For trauma survivors, chronic worriers, anxious people, and everyone whose nervous system has forgotten that the light on the wall is a message the body knows how to read.