Practical guidance, neurosensory exercises, movement & exercise, somatic experiencing, circadian health, sleep
Got a short one for you today that is all about what true nervous system regulation REALLY is. Dive in. Please know that reaching this holy grail of health (aka: full autonomic nervous system regulation) does not mean that we won’t get stressed out. [...]
Last year, around this time, I released a vlog that described how learning a second language as an adult is analogous to learning how to create nervous system regulation (for the first time) as an adult. I write “for the first time” in brackets, because for some here, [...]
Today’s video falls into the category of most frequently asked questions. It revolves around a question that goes something like this: “Irene, does **insert your mind-body practice of choice** help with healing trauma and nervous system regulation?” Gosh, folks, I wish it were easy enough to just say [...]
It goes without saying that stress impacts pretty much most humans to a certain degree. And it most definitely impacts those living in more westernized and industrialized places and spaces. If we aren’t careful, these stresses can accumulate and create what some call ‘toxicity’ with our body-mind interfaces, [...]
Sometimes the most direct questions are the best ones for me to tackle, and the other week, one of my followers on YouTube asked this question: The quick answer to this question: to be healthy! Here’s the thing -- when we are storing old traumatic [...]
Hi folks, The video I have for you today is a blend of what I’ve been deeply feeling, as I observe an array of intensities unfold in the global arena, along with some practical strategies - elements I’m calling them - that I believe are important for us [...]
Hands down, this is one of the more frequently questions I get: Can I heal if I’m living in a toxic and unsafe environment? The answer to this question is not linear, and to make it even more confusing, the answer changes depending on a variety of factors, [...]
Do you, or someone you know, find it impossible to sleep soundly? I get a lot of questions around: Why you can’t sleep even though you’re exhausted and have the “head bob thing” going on while reading a book in bed, but as soon as you turn off [...]
Hands down, one of the toughest things to grok when one starts their healing journey, à la nervous system level, is that it takes time. We can’t rush this work. Doing so can be disastrous. (I have some personal stories around this, but I’ll leave that for another [...]
There are many roads that can help us go from being stuck to in flow, and one of them is a principle and practice called pendulation. This term was popularized by the founder of Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, to describe a way of being with an intense experience [...]
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