Last week’s video went a little viral! It got people speaking their minds: Some got grumpy. Some were sad, and shared their own personal situations of trauma impacting their lives and how tough it has been for them. Some showcased clear victim identification. Some shared [...]
Why isn’t trauma treated as a public health priority? This week’s solo vlog attempts to unpack and answer this conundrum by: Bringing in some of the big names: Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, and Vincent Felitti Showcasing an alarming piece of data from the Adverse Childhood Experiences [...]
I’m not exactly sure how to introduce this long form talk that I have for you this week with fellow Somatic Experiencing colleague Will Rezin, but I might try it this way: One of my favourite words is ‘smitten.’ So much so that when I first started writing [...]
Late last week, I was inspired to record a short video based on a YouTube comment I read: ‘It’s hard to believe that the human biology requires such an intricate and deep level of complexity, for something that is a basic biological function. A regulated NS (nervous system) [...]
Here’s a short story to introduce today’s teaching video. Over a decade ago, I was at a business conference in San Diego and I sat down at one of those round tables to claim my area for the day. To my delight, a couple was sitting there already [...]
I have a new interview for you that dives into the medicalization of birth and some myths (ten to be exact) that tend to linger around the birth of our fellow humans. If the connections between nervous system regulation and the birthing process are new to you, I [...]
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 [...]
I'm going to keep this update shorter than usual, so you can do a quick scan and check out what I’ve been talking about on social media the past week (scroll down for me looking ‘surprised’)... Also, I’ve got a NEW mini-class happening July 8 (see details below [...]
As promised last week, today I have a new ‘round two’ talk with one of our younger SmartBody SmartMindTM (SBSM) alums, Jerika. Jerika and I had our first talk back in February 2024, where we covered in detail what led her to (desperately) seek out nervous system healing [...]
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