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Is exercise important when healing trauma?

As humans, we need to move. Physically, frequently, and with HIGH INTENSITY to live well and be healthy. And yet, for many living with untreated trauma and chronic conditions, the thought of doing something that remotely resembles exercise can seem impossible.  So today, I’m resharing an important vlog: [...]

Is exercise important when healing trauma?2023-03-23T15:28:16-07:00

Why unresolved trauma can make it difficult to lose weight

Maintaining a healthy body weight is critical for our health and well-being.   And yet SO many people struggle to lose excess weight and find a healthy balance of muscle, bone, and fat, even after years (or decades) of following the best diets, exercise regimens, and supplement protocols.  This [...]

Why unresolved trauma can make it difficult to lose weight2023-03-19T19:00:27-07:00

Disgust: The gateway emotion for healing toxic shame

If you suffer from chronic illness or symptoms of the physical or mental variety, addictions, relationship troubles, negative thoughts or low self-worth… …it is very likely that you experienced TOXIC SHAME growing up.  Whether it was dosed out by parents, caregivers, siblings, teachers, or society in general, you [...]

Disgust: The gateway emotion for healing toxic shame2023-03-09T15:42:48-08:00

What do you do when you have unresolved trauma? Two types of orienting.

In this blog I’m sharing a vlog that covers one of the fundamentals for healing unresolved trauma and restoring regulation and better self-awareness back to the human system: Orienting The capacity to orient to one’s environment in two different modes - exploratory and defensive - as well as [...]

What do you do when you have unresolved trauma? Two types of orienting.2023-03-05T10:30:32-08:00

Why there is no such thing as “little T”

I have a new vlog for you today (“Why there’s no such thing as ‘little T’”), and it’s a good one to watch if you’re not sure whether this nervous system work applies to you, since you don’t remember having any BIG traumas in your life.  For the [...]

Why there is no such thing as “little T”2023-02-11T17:09:05-08:00

What ‘Becoming Your Own Medicine’ looks like

People join SmartBody SmartMind (SBSM) for a LOT of different reasons.  They come to this work from different backgrounds, at different ages and with different stories. Many of them come back year upon year, often finding deeper healing with each new session. Our SBSM alumni have said many [...]

What ‘Becoming Your Own Medicine’ looks like2023-02-15T09:46:54-08:00

Debunking 7 myths around healing trauma & nervous system regulation

I’m seeing a lot more talk about all things trauma, nervous system health, and healing out in the world these days.  This is a good thing. More of us need to wake up to this area of health and healing that’s been overlooked. AND… I’ve also noticed a [...]

Debunking 7 myths around healing trauma & nervous system regulation2023-02-11T16:53:38-08:00

Healing our resistance to making money, exercising, & living in the matrix with Seth Lyon

Today I have a very special guest, my husband and colleague Seth Lyon, for an important conversation about restoring nervous system regulation WHILE living in the matrix.  When we met, Seth had been living apart from society for about 13 years. He struggled with complex PTSD and, in [...]

Healing our resistance to making money, exercising, & living in the matrix with Seth Lyon2023-02-08T09:24:04-08:00

Birthing babies the way nature intended with Dr. Erika La Vella, DO.

Ever wonder what it takes to create, birth, and raise trauma-free, healthy humans?  That’s what we’ll cover (and so much more!) in today’s NEW vlog with Dr. Erika La Vella, DO: Birthing Babies the Way Nature Intended.  Erika is a medical doctor and surgeon by trade, who recently [...]

Birthing babies the way nature intended with Dr. Erika La Vella, DO.2023-01-28T13:38:37-08:00

Neurosensory exercises (the practical side of my work

We’re often told that in order to heal, we have to “do the work.”  (Turns out much of that “work” doesn’t actually work because most people don’t know about unresolved/untreated trauma and what it takes to heal it…but I digress.) After 20+ years of helping people heal at [...]

Neurosensory exercises (the practical side of my work2023-01-30T07:26:24-08:00
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