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 [...]
Recently, there’s been a lot of hype around whose theory is valid (or not) in the somatic trauma healing fields (also once known as: the new traumatology). I’ve been speaking a lot over the years about how this work is still so new, one might say embryonic at [...]
I wish stories of early trauma and longstanding abuse, like what Hosannah shares in my most recent interview release, were not common, but alas, here we are, and sadly, they are all too common. I originally heard of her story when she submitted a self-filmed testimonial for my [...]
I rarely share videos of my own personal trauma processing. In fact, I don’t think I ever have, until this week! This week’s video describes (and shows) my legs having a good old fashion shaky shake, after an intense stint of work back in 2024. Please know this: [...]
A while back I caught this question on one of my social media feeds, and in today’s new video, I answered it. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is in the video. I will also add that while pain can be a ‘pain’ [...]
An important note to read before you dig into this week’s email and video: Right now, my evolving profession, which one might call “somatic trauma healing,”* is experiencing a bit of a shake up. The good old days of only the trained and dedicated being the ones training [...]
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.” Erma Bombeck I’ll never forget the time Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing (SE), mentioned an ingrown toenail during a master class I was assisting at. It was as if that was his way of telling us all that it was ok [...]
I hope you take time to watch my final video of 2025. It’s getting some heartfelt comments, this one especially spoke to me: @michellekidd9679 2 hours ago What I would say very clearly having just completed my first round of SBSM is ' there is so much I [...]
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