Irene’s Musings

A catch-all for miscellaneous posts that don’t ‘fit’ anywhere else

A jaw-dropping passage in Bessel van der Kolk’s book, “The Body Keeps The Score”

2024-09-06T10:57:26-07:00Irene's Musings, Pain & Chronic Illness|

If you're landing on this blog post, you have found some keynotes that Irene wanted to capture from the registration period of SmartBody SmartMind™ (SBSM) in September 2024. She highlighted an important passage from Bessel van der Kolk's book, The Body Keeps The Score, via two different social [...]

Are you truly regulated… or just managing dysregulation?

2024-10-03T10:27:42-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Irene's Musings, Nervous System Health, Nervous System Resiliency|

This week, we have a short video on what TRUE nervous system regulation looks like (hint: it's not what you think). You'll also find out why using techniques to regulate, though maybe helpful in the short term, doesn't create true, sustainable regulation long-term – and how simple ''hacks'' [...]

“Feels like war between all the somatic gurus.” (My musings on this comment.)

2024-08-22T08:01:29-07:00Irene's Musings, Practitioners & Professionals, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Today's share is inspired by a comment on one of my recent Instagram posts: "Feels like war between all the somatic gurus." This video is my reply to this comment. In this video, you'll discover: If there is a war going on between all the somatic experts online [...]

A simple visual story to explain integration

2024-07-28T15:04:34-07:00Healing Trauma, Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Irene's Musings, Nervous System Health, Nervous System Resiliency, SmartBody SmartMind, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

I will be speaking more about integration this year, and here’s why: Integration is now another word being thrown around out there in the trauma, somatic, and plant medicine worlds. And yet it seems a lot of folks are downright confused about what it actually means. Here are [...]