What is the trouble with trying to heal your trauma before building nervous system capacity? Billy Bob tells it like it is: And I’ll add: I am certain that if I had only had access to what I teach others now... That my long-ass [...]
Every now and then, I share something on my social media channels that’s a bit controversial. I always share these things with the intention to educate and inform, from a trauma and nervous system POV, on a topic that I believe is important, not to be provocative just [...]
Recently, a member of my online community asked: "Hey Irene. Why do methods like what Joe Dispenza shares work for some but not for others?" GREAT question! Today’s video (originally a livestream) is my answer, with a little help from the late Edgar Cayce. While I’ve never met [...]
Suppressed anger, parental (mis)attunement, and… Is addiction really genetic? These are the kinds of big topics and questions I discuss with drug rehab counsellor, Rachel Martin, in our NEW long-form chat, titled ‘Somatic-based healing for addiction recovery.’ Rachel is a SmartBody SmartMind (SBSM) alum as well as a [...]
Today’s video is a clip from one of my good ol’ long-form lectures, called ‘Anger As Medicine.’ I’m resharing and highlighting this particular excerpt for you today because I believe this is one of THE most important (yet STILL least-talked-about) parts of nervous system health & healing. In [...]
I’ve got another NEW chat with a returning guest to share with y’all today and it is a GOOD one. For those who are new here, didn’t catch our previous interviews, or haven’t been introduced to Donnie via this recent SBSM Alumni Panel chat (or this one), here’s [...]
Have you ever stopped to consider HOW you orient to the world around you (and WHY)? Do you tend to… A) Stay hyper-alert to all things, all the time (because you never know what’s around the corner, and when you’ll have to defend yourself or your loved ones [...]
Today I have a NEW long form discussion (plus a sweet little freebie) for you via another of my most frequent guests, Sarah Kleiner. This will be our fourth time chatting about subjects like circadian biology, biological eating, deep healing at a cellular level, and now… the essential [...]
Today’s vlog falls into one of the most commonly asked questions I get: What causes dissociation and what it takes to heal. I want to let the video and its education do the talking, but suffice it to say that MANY things can cause what is termed dissociation, [...]
THE BACKSTORY (a scientific study on SBSM): Three years ago (in 2021), we partnered with Mitacs, a non-profit organization that pairs industry with academia (in this case, the University of Victoria) to run a group of students through the SmartBody SmartMind™ (SBSM) curriculum as the university studied them [...]
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