# Alexandra Ragalie > Somatic and trauma-informed work for adults. IFS, Somatic Experiencing, and therapeutic yoga. Based in Zurich. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [my story ...](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/about.md) - ... begins with loss At fourteen, I lost my best friend - my father. In the years that followed, I watched my mother struggle with alcohol addiction, powerless to help. By eighteen, she was gone too. I was an orphan. With no one to guide me through the anger and pain, I did what was naturally and e… - [landing page - title hidden](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/the-hummingbird.md) - the Hummingbird - on the nervous system, trauma, and the energy underneath. healing is not a destination - it's a homecoming. Somatic and trauma-informed work — met with curiosity, compassion, and no assumptions about where you are or are supposed to be. The mind is strong. It loops, it catches, it… - [different ways to enter, depending on where you are](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/work-with-me.md) - Most of what you've been told about healing has been organised around language: what happened, what it means, how to think about it differently. This is different. This is where body-based work begins. It begins with what you sense, not what you understand. You may have done therapy. Perhaps even a… ## Posts - [a mini trip through our brain](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/blog/a-mini-trip-through-our-brain-2.md) - and debunking a few brain myths along the way You skip lunch to power through a deadline. By 3pm you're snapping at people over nothing and you can't quite explain why. That's not just a mood swing. That's your brain running out of budget. That idea comes from a small book by neuroscientist Lisa Fe… - [when the reaction doesn't fit the moment](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/blog/when-the-reaction-doesnt-fit-the-moment.md) - present musings I was working on a series of posts on the vagus nerve and the polyvagal theory, and I kept going in circles. Not good enough, too short, too long, not academic enough (3 years of academic writing still showing its teeth), too scientific, not enough scientific… I decided to take a pa… - [what the impala knows that we don't](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/blog/what-the-impala-knows-that-we-dont.md) - The impala goes down. It doesn't fight anymore, doesn't run. It lies there, completely still, while the cheetah catches its breath. Then the hyena shows up. The cheetah and the hyena start their own altercation - and in that window, something shifts in the impala. Not a decision, exactly. A recogni… - [a nervous system built for a different world](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/blog/a-nervous-system-built-for-a-different-world.md) - We are carrying ancient wiring into a modern world it was never designed for. This is worth sitting with. The autonomic nervous system - the ANS - developed across hundreds of millions of years of evolution. It predates us by a long stretch. Parts of it were already present in primitive animals, in… ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/blog/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://www.alexandraragalie.com/llms-full.txt)