Before I introduce this week’s new guest interview that’s dedicated to those who are practitioners, or practitioners to be… I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to all those who have sent in emails or dropped a social media comment, expressing your excitement for the [...]
Without a doubt, one of the main ailments that led to the development of the new traumatology work that we know of today, which forms the basis of my previous private practice work, and then developing my online offerings for personal somatic and interoceptive skill building, would be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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