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A holistic approach to restoring health at all levels with bariatric surgeon Dr. Erika La Vella

Today I have a NEW expert guest interview for you with the brilliant Dr. Erika La Vella.  She’s a board-certified bariatric surgeon (caring for patients with obesity), with a passion for preventative medicine and teaching people how to heal their gut in ways that go way beyond diet [...]

2024-04-20T15:51:47-07:00October 8th, 2023|3. Pain & Chronic Illness, 6. Practitioners & Professionals|

How to help anxious kids who are behaving ‘badly,’ with Stephen Terrell

I’m re-sharing an important interview featuring my wonderful mentor and colleague, Stephen Terrell. Here’s what we’ll cover: What this ‘bad’ behaviour actually is from a nervous system perspective. Why attempts to fix or change this behaviour are often futile (and what parents can do instead!). Why even parents [...]

Choose your own learning (aka healing) pathway

Maya Angelou once said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”  If there’s one thing I know for sure after more than a decade of teaching people around the world how to heal, it’s this…learning is healing.  When people [...]

Want to Become a Master Somatic Practitioner? Here’s What It Will Take.

A doctor goes to medical school.  A lawyer goes to law school.  A master somatic practitioner goes to…there’s really no equivalent in the worlds of somatic healing, working with trauma, and nervous system health. Yet.  I’m working on changing that!  But for those considering this path, I want [...]

2024-04-20T16:13:23-07:00September 3rd, 2023|1. Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Mental Health and Illness – The Nervous System Connection

This article is an update of a blog post originally published in July 2019.  Some important context, four years on: The unpredictability of our world is now apparent and our need for healing, increasingly urgent. As the paradigm of conventional “wisdom” around our health and well-being shifts, it’s [...]

2024-04-20T16:19:57-07:00August 20th, 2023|3. Pain & Chronic Illness, 4. Mental Health & Neuroplasticity|

Will this heal my ‘XYZ’? (3-year update from ’21 Day’ student Elisabeth)

Most of the people who find this entire world of nervous system health and healing are looking for a way to solve a particular struggle.  Maybe it’s a chronic illness, a mental or physical health condition, a pattern of self-sabotage and choosing toxic relationships, or any number of [...]

2024-04-20T16:24:58-07:00August 13th, 2023|3. Pain & Chronic Illness|