Yes. It does.
But here’s the thing:
Threat. Helplessness. Abuse. Adversity. Toxic Shame…Living in a perpetual state of overriding our feelings, sensations, emotions (um hello Western society)…All of this creates a critical situation in the body’s physiology which is one of survival.
We can also call this stress physiology, or living in a state of stress chemistry.
But this […]
When we learn the right stuff (for us) we begin to heal. And to keep healing we must keep learning, tweaking and repeating.
It never ends. As it should not.
One of the primary pieces of wisdom that I feel I have solidified over the past ten years of my work is that healing comes, not from […]
As you might know by now, I love to share what I come across during my week and this video below, and the man in it, his story, is a PERFECT example of someone with:
Early trauma from the very start (it looks like in utero, born addicted to drugs, and a premature)
Loving adoptive […]
Some concepts are tricky to explain. Especially when it comes to how the human system heals in miraculous ways.
Anita Moorjani’s memoir, Dying To Be Me, is one account of a miraculous “cure” that science can’t explain (a fabulous book that I highly recommend!) Same with the many documented cures, over 7000, that have taken place […]
I remember learning about the deep roots of what causes chronic fatigue in my early years studying Somatic Experiencing. I talk about this in other videos, namely this one. When I learned about what is called, ‘The New Traumatology,’ which is the study of trauma and how it impacts the nervous system and its body-mind […]
I want to share something with you that often gets confused or misunderstood:
The link between Depression and Shame.
A few weeks back I was responding to a question in my Facebook community, Healthy Nervous System Revolution, and it brought this link into sharp focus for me. The question was in reference to an article titled: It’s […]
