T he Healing Power of Glimmers

BY KELLEY GRIMES, MSW

Are you wondering what glimmers are?

If so, you are not alone. I have been leading self-nurturing workshops on glimmers for the past year, and most people have never heard of them.

Deb Dana, a clinical social worker, coined the term“ glimmers” in her book The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy in 2018. Although the term glimmers has not yet become a household word, I hope you help me remedy that!

The fact that more people do not know about glimmers may be influenced by the negativity bias in our brain which supports remembering the negative more easily than the positive. Negativity seems to stick to our