Capacity Practice One
A guided practice for expanding your capacity to stay with sensation and activation.
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What Is the S.H.I.F.T. Model™?
The S.H.I.F.T. Model™ (Somatic Holistic Internal Family Transcendence) is an integrative framework for embodied transformation that blends polyvagal-informed nervous-system practices, somatic tools such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or tapping), and parts work informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Together, these elements create a non-pathologizing, compassionate, evidence-informed pathway back to one’s inherent wholeness.
Polyvagal+IFS+EFT
Nervous System Regulation · Parts Work · Tapping
Grounded in the paradox that true and lasting transformation emerges through radical self-acceptance, the S.H.I.F.T. Model™ helps us regulate the nervous system, unblend from protective parts, and reconnect with the calm, curious, courageous Self at the core of our being.
Learn more about the modelThe Acronym EXPLAINED
What Does S.H.I.F.T. Stand For?
S
Somatic
We regulate the nervous system by tuning into the felt experience of the body, not only the stories we tell about it. The wisdom of the body comes through sensation, not sentences.
H
Holistic
We account for the whole of our experience: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, relational, socio-cultural, historical, and biological.
IF
Internal Family
We understand ourselves as an internal family rather than one singular voice or identity.
None of the parts of that family are bad. They need relationship, attention, and compassion rather than exile.
T
Transcendence
The goal is not to escape our pain, but to access the deeper Self who can witness our experience with spaciousness, integrity, and intelligence — allowing new possibilities and new identities to emerge.
The Process
How It Works
By combining polyvagal-informed nervous-system attunement with parts-based dialogue, the S.H.I.F.T. Model™ supports emotional release and system-wide integration. Old patterns can soften, exiled wounds can be met with compassion, and new narratives of wholeness can emerge.
The S.H.I.F.T. Model™ is not about forcing change. It is about expanding our capacity for change and creating the safety in which transformation can unfold.
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Regulate Our Nervous System
Our state comes before our story. We begin by settling the body enough that our stories can soften and healing becomes more available.
2
Create Safety in the Body
Through tapping and somatic awareness, we create a felt sense of groundedness and help the body shift toward a parasympathetic state.
3
Befriend Our Stories & Parts
As safety increases, protective parts can relax and deeper truths can surface without becoming overwhelming.
4
Compassionate Witnessing From Within
Parts do not heal through pressure. They heal through presence. We meet the inner world with compassion rather than control.
5
Practice the S.H.I.F.T.™ & Live Transformed
We regulate, tell ourselves the truth, witness with compassion, and begin living from chosen values rather than old patterns.
Healing is a practice, not a one-time event.
Created By Brian Hogan
The Practice Behind the S.H.I.F.T. Model™
Brian Hogan is a clinical therapist and EFT mentor whose work integrates nervous-system regulation, parts work, tapping, narrative identity, and embodied practice.
The S.H.I.F.T. Model™ and 5 Brain Model grew from that intersection: helping people create enough internal safety to meet difficult patterns with curiosity instead of force.
Clinical TherapistEFT MentorIFS (Level 2 Trained)
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Practices for expanding your ability to stay present with sensation, emotion, activation, and uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed.
Capacity Practice Two
A guided practice for meeting emotion and uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed.
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Capacity Practice Three
A guided practice for widening your window of tolerance, moment to moment.
Practice NowCreate Safety
Practices for grounding, orienting, settling, and helping the nervous system recognize enough safety in the present moment.
Safety Practice One
A guided practice for grounding and helping your system settle into the present moment.
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Safety Practice Two
A guided practice for orienting and finding a felt sense of enough safety, right now.
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Safety Practice Three
A guided practice for calming the body and shifting toward a settled, parasympathetic state.
Practice NowBefriend Your Inner Family
Practices for meeting protective parts, shame, inner critics, conflicting voices, and difficult stories with curiosity rather than combat.
Inner Family Practice One
A guided practice for meeting protective parts with curiosity rather than combat.
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Inner Family Practice Two
A guided practice for meeting shame and the inner critic with compassion.
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Inner Family Practice Three
A guided practice for befriending conflicting voices and difficult stories from within.
Practice NowIntegrate & Move Forward
Practices for connecting insight with self-compassion, new narratives, chosen values, and embodied action.
Integration Practice One
A guided practice for connecting insight with self-compassion and new narratives.
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Integration Practice Two
A guided practice for aligning with your chosen values and living them out.
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Integration Practice Three
A guided practice for turning insight into embodied action, one step at a time.
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