Anxiety

Mental Health and Illness Explained

2022-11-14T10:25:26-08:00

Lately, it’s been feeling like the energy around the power of the nervous system, healing trauma, emotional well-being and mental health has really been ramping up in the best possible way! But there are definitely some misconceptions out there about the connection between mental (and physical) health and stress responses [...]

Mental Health and Illness Explained2022-11-14T10:25:26-08:00

Why post-traumatic stress and chronic pain lands in some people, and not others.

2020-12-03T16:43:22-08:00

. Imagine you have two people who both get into an identical, and minor, fender bender (car accident). >> Person A walks away with zero post-traumatic stress - no chronic pain, no lasting whiplash, no fear to drive and get back behind the wheel. They go back to their life [...]

Why post-traumatic stress and chronic pain lands in some people, and not others.2020-12-03T16:43:22-08:00

Did you know that taking a deep breath to relax is actually counter-productive?

2019-11-22T18:56:41-08:00

When we are more active; during exercise, when we go up a flight of stairs or run for the bus, our breathing should increase. When we are relaxed; reading a book, watching TV or sleeping, our breathing goes down because our metabolism is slower. Why do we find [...]

Did you know that taking a deep breath to relax is actually counter-productive?2019-11-22T18:56:41-08:00

An Exercise in Attention to Safety, Senses & Breath (aka: Re-Setting Your Nervous System to the Here and Now)

2019-04-30T13:06:41-07:00

It’s likely that sometime soon you’ll encounter some stress that will rev up your body’s physiology. It’s also possible that you’ve got some stress that’s still sitting in your system from yesterday, last week, last year, or a decade ago. Here’s the thing, our body getting hit with stress is [...]

An Exercise in Attention to Safety, Senses & Breath (aka: Re-Setting Your Nervous System to the Here and Now)2019-04-30T13:06:41-07:00

Part 1. Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan

2019-04-30T13:06:44-07:00

I think it might have been in June last year when one of my teachers said: "The somatic practices need to be more refined." These seven words really, REALLY, got me thinking. In 7 months of thinking and asking other people - my clients, colleagues, teachers - it seems unanimous: Yep. Refinement [...]

Part 1. Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan2019-04-30T13:06:44-07:00

Would You Drive a Ferrari That Way? The world needs all our cylinders now

2022-05-26T12:02:02-07:00

The men in Maranello would not be proud Imagine what would happen if a Ferrari was only driven in first gear, no long stretches, no crossfall camber, and following instructions from the manual as to the correct and precise timing in which you ‘drop the clutch’? It just doesn’t work [...]

Would You Drive a Ferrari That Way? The world needs all our cylinders now2022-05-26T12:02:02-07:00