I believe unconditional empathy is essential right now, and if we can understand what that means at a deep biological level, and then learn to practice it, we get not only good points with the universe, but we build compassion for ALL (human) creatures. Great, small, obtuse, ignorant, abused [...]
I’m passionate about stellar learning environments. I’ve written about the importance of creating safe spaces in mind-body classes at length and these concepts are not just theoretical - they’re based on real life experience teaching group classes since 1996! My recent workshop obsession is called Up [...]
Earlier this week I spent a few days learning with Peter Levine* and I want to share a few nuggets we were studying that tie in with a new video I’ve got for you today that’s part of my ‘Trauma Tips’ video series. There’s a question I [...]
What I really want you to know, and what’s often misunderstood, is that nervous system rewiring and improving regulation (of the nervous system) is ALL about improving mental health. (And all the by-products that come with this, such as more restful and restorative sleep, improving our immune [...]
Our collective DNA, for the most part, only knows what it is like to live in survival physiology. By becoming more regulated in our autonomic nervous system we start to unleash our true human potential. I wish the entire body of work of healing [...]
Yes. It does. But here’s the thing: Threat. Helplessness. Abuse. Adversity. Toxic Shame…Living in a perpetual state of overriding our feelings, sensations, emotions (um hello Western society)...All of this creates a critical situation in the body’s physiology which is one of survival. We can also call this stress physiology, [...]
When we learn the right stuff (for us), we begin to heal. And to keep healing, we must keep learning, tweaking and repeating. It never ends. As it should not. One of the primary pieces of wisdom that I feel I have solidified over the past ten [...]
As you might know by now, I love to share what I come across during my week, and this video below, and the man in it, and his story, is a PERFECT example of someone with: Early trauma from the very start (it looks like in utero, born [...]
Some concepts are tricky to explain. Especially when it comes to how the human system heals in miraculous ways. Anita Moorjani’s memoir, Dying To Be Me, is one account of a miraculous “cure” that science can’t explain (a fabulous book that I highly recommend!). Same with the many [...]
I remember learning about the deep roots of what causes chronic fatigue in my early years studying Somatic Experiencing. I talk about this in other videos, namely this one. When I learned about what is called, ‘The New Traumatology,’ which is the study of trauma and how it [...]
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