🌼 Glimmers of Spring 🌼

In our latest blog, Educational Psychologist Dr Vicky Mullan shares a gentle reflection on “glimmers” – the small, everyday moments that help our nervous systems feel calm and safe.

Take a few minutes to read this thoughtful piece and see what glimmers you notice today ⭐

We often talk about triggers, the moments, places or memories that spark anxiety and set our nervous system on edge. But there is another side to that same coin. Psychologist Deb Dana introduced the idea of “glimmers”, small moments that cue safety and calm in our bodies. If triggers are the things that send us into fight, flight or freeze, glimmers are the things that gently bring us back.

They are often tiny. Easily missed. But powerful. A hot coffee held between cold hands. The weight of a cat settling on your lap. The first daffodils pushing through tired soil. Spring feels like a season made of glimmers. The days stretch a little longer. The rain eases, even if only slightly. Light lingers in the evenings where darkness used to sit.

There is something regulating about noticing these shifts. Our nervous systems respond to cues of safety, rhythm and predictability. When we intentionally look for glimmers, the warmth of sunlight on a kitchen floor, birds louder at dawn, a familiar mug, we are gently teaching our brains that not everything is threat. Not everything is urgency. Some things are simply steady and good.

Glimmers do not erase stress. They do not fix hard seasons. But they give us something to anchor to. And like spring itself, they don’t arrive all at once. They come in moments. I challenge you to notice a few glimmers, even one a day, with that we begin to build a different kind of awareness. One that scans not just for danger, but for hope.

Written by Dr Vicky Mullan, Educational Psychologist (HCPC Registered)

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