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Hi folks, Have you gotten acquainted with the free resources on my site? To help you navigate these offerings, my team and I recently curated a collection of these stellar resources in one handy bundle for you to download and keep. >> Irene Lyon’s Nervous System Starter Kit [...]

I’m re-sharing an important interview featuring my wonderful mentor and colleague, Stephen Terrell. Here’s what we’ll cover: What this ‘bad’ behaviour actually is from a nervous system perspective. Why attempts to fix or change this behaviour are often futile (and what parents can do instead!). Why even parents [...]

Maya Angelou once said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”  If there’s one thing I know for sure after more than a decade of teaching people around the world how to heal, it’s this…learning is healing.  When people [...]

A few months ago, I posted something on Instagram that was a bit controversial, and it offended some people. Here’s a screenshot of the post:  Let me be clear—I’m not here to apologize for it. I stand by what I said.  AND I understand why [...]

A doctor goes to medical school. A lawyer goes to law school. A master somatic practitioner goes to…there’s really no equivalent in the worlds of somatic healing, working with trauma, and nervous system health.Yet. I’m working on changing that! But for those considering this path, I want to make one thing clear: This is [...]

I hear a lot of confusion (mainly from folks outside of my online programs) about what healing trauma actually looks like.  Many believe, for example, that releasing stored survival stress requires a big shaking response.  This is simply not true.  In fact, pushing our system to force out [...]

This article is an update of a blog post originally published in July 2019.  Some important context, four years on: The unpredictability of our world is now apparent and our need for healing, increasingly urgent. As the paradigm of conventional “wisdom” around our health and well-being shifts, it’s [...]

Most of the people who find this entire world of nervous system health and healing are looking for a way to solve a particular struggle.  Maybe it’s a chronic illness, a mental or physical health condition, a pattern of self-sabotage and choosing toxic relationships, or any number of [...]

Find yourself regularly fleeing from what you want or need to do for your health and happiness? Not really sure why?  I’ve got a good one for you today: The origin story of procrastination, self-sabotage, & fleeing from health. The vlog was inspired by my most popular social [...]

I wanted to share a little musing on (successful) aging and (nervous system) regeneration with you today, inspired by a strange comment I got a while back. All it said was: “It’s irritating how attractive you are for your age.”  Haha, well… Thanks for the compliment, I think.  [...]