A couple of weeks back, one of my mentors said: “Healing is a journey, not an event.” That statement has been in my head since, so I wanted to share why this is important to understand, plus how it perfectly informs a main teaching point of mine, which [...]
I just shared a video on my YouTube channel titled: ‘Why your nervous system “crashed” after one stressful event.’ It’s a short clip from a longer ‘AMA’ livestream (ask me anything) that I did earlier this year, that you can find here. In a nutshell, it explains why [...]
Hey folks, Irene here. There are some significant changes happening to how I work online, so I wanted to create a comprehensive outline so you have one spot you can refer back to (plus I can update this post when, or as, needed). In a nutshell, right now* me [...]
Important Notice: SmartBody SmartMind™ (SBSM) Foundations is happening June 3 - 25! Registration for this brand new 4-week offering that I’ll be teaching will come later this week, but for now… Be sure to watch this ‘info session vlog’ (25 mins), where I: Give you a recap of [...]
Have you ever experienced: Tight muscles that never seem to relax (no matter how much you stretch them or get massaged)? Unexplainable pain that surfaces in certain body parts (muscles, joints, or entire limbs), even though you didn't do anything differently that day, or even that week? A [...]
True story: In one of my professional training sessions focused on working with early and developmental trauma work, I remember our primary teacher, Kathy Kain, say: “I talk to my clients a lot about their poop!” Some might laugh at that. Others might feel a twinge of “is [...]
Things are soon going to change around here, and I wanted you to hear it (read it) here first. These shifts have been stewing, brewing, and bubbling up in my mind, plus in many conversations with colleagues and my team, the last year or so. The gist of [...]
Five 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 to assess its effectiveness on various markers of health and well-being, with [...]
It’s possible you don’t know this about me, but my Masters work was focused on studying what it takes to improve function and strength in older adults. At the time, I was purely working from an exercise science and biomedical science lens, meaning, I wasn’t aware of what [...]
There is currently a controversy resurfacing in the trauma healing and neuroscience community regarding Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory (PVT). This debate has been going on for nearly two decades. A recently published paper has brought it back into focus. Neurophysiologist Paul Grossman, along with 38 researchers, recently published [...]
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